Re: [PATCH V12 05/10] acpi: apei: handle SEA notification type for ARMv8

[James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>]

Hi Tyler,

On 06/03/17 20:44, Tyler Baicar wrote:
> ARM APEI extension proposal added SEA (Synchronous External Abort)
> notification type for ARMv8.
> Add a new GHES error source handling function for SEA. If an error
> source's notification type is SEA, then this function can be registered
> into the SEA exception handler. That way GHES will parse and report
> SEA exceptions when they occur.
> An SEA can interrupt code that had interrupts masked and is treated as
> an NMI. To aid this the page of address space for mapping APEI buffers
> while in_nmi() is always reserved, and ghes_ioremap_pfn_nmi() is
> changed to use the helper methods to find the prot_t to map with in
> the same way as ghes_ioremap_pfn_irq().

> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index b25e7cf..b0596ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -1023,6 +1075,13 @@ static int ghes_probe(struct platform_device *ghes_dev)
>  		pr_warning(GHES_PFX "Generic hardware error source: %d notified via local interrupt is not supported!\n",
>  			   generic->header.source_id);
>  		goto err;
> +	case ACPI_HEST_NOTIFY_GPIO:
> +	case ACPI_HEST_NOTIFY_SEI:
> +	case ACPI_HEST_NOTIFY_GSIV:
> +		pr_warn(GHES_PFX "Generic hardware error source: %d notified via notification type %u is not supported\n",
> +			generic->header.source_id, generic->header.source_id);
> +		rc = -ENOTSUPP;
> +		goto err;
>  	default:
>  		pr_warning(FW_WARN GHES_PFX "Unknown notification type: %u for generic hardware error source: %d\n",
>  			   generic->notify.type, generic->header.source_id);


This hunk will conflict with Shiju Jose's patch[0] that adds GPIO and GSIV
support. Can we remove it?


Thanks,

James


[0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg72654.html