RE: [PATCH v13 1/2] ACPI / APEI: Add a notifier chain for unknown (vendor) CPER records

[Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@huawei.com>]

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>From: Bjorn Helgaas [mailto:helgaas@kernel.org]
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>Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] ACPI / APEI: Add a notifier chain for unknown
>(vendor) CPER records
>
>On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:00:41AM +0000, Shiju Jose wrote:
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Bjorn Helgaas [mailto:helgaas@kernel.org]
>> >Sent: 24 July 2020 00:21
>> >To: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@huawei.com>
>> >Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org; linux-pci@vger.kernel.org; linux-
>> >kernel@vger.kernel.org; rjw@rjwysocki.net; bp@alien8.de;
>> >james.morse@arm.com; lenb@kernel.org; tony.luck@intel.com;
>> >dan.carpenter@oracle.com; zhangliguang@linux.alibaba.com;
>> >andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com; Wangkefeng (OS Kernel Lab)
>> ><wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>; jroedel@suse.de; Linuxarm
>> ><linuxarm@huawei.com>; yangyicong <yangyicong@huawei.com>;
>Jonathan
>> >Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>; tanxiaofei
>> ><tanxiaofei@huawei.com>
>> >Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 1/2] ACPI / APEI: Add a notifier chain for
>> >unknown
>> >(vendor) CPER records
>> >
>> >On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Shiju Jose wrote:
>> >> CPER records describing a firmware-first error are identified by GUID.
>> >> The ghes driver currently logs, but ignores any unknown CPER records.
>> >> This prevents describing errors that can't be represented by a
>> >> standard entry, that would otherwise allow a driver to recover from
>> >> an
>> >error.
>> >> The UEFI spec calls these 'Non-standard Section Body' (N.2.3 of
>> >> version 2.8).
>> >
>> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES
>> >> +/**
>> >> + * ghes_register_vendor_record_notifier - register a notifier for
>> >> +vendor
>> >> + * records that the kernel would otherwise ignore.
>> >> + * @nb: pointer to the notifier_block structure of the event handler.
>> >> + *
>> >> + * return 0 : SUCCESS, non-zero : FAIL  */ int
>> >> +ghes_register_vendor_record_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
>> >> +
>> >> +/**
>> >> + * ghes_unregister_vendor_record_notifier - unregister the
>> >> +previously
>> >> + * registered vendor record notifier.
>> >> + * @nb: pointer to the notifier_block structure of the vendor
>> >> +record
>> >handler.
>> >> + */
>> >> +void ghes_unregister_vendor_record_notifier(struct notifier_block
>> >> +*nb); #else static inline int
>> >> +ghes_register_vendor_record_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) {
>> >> +	return -ENODEV;
>> >> +}
>> >> +
>> >> +static inline void ghes_unregister_vendor_record_notifier(struct
>> >> +notifier_block *nb) { }
>> >
>> >If you made CONFIG_PCIE_HISI_ERR depend on CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES,
>> >you'd be able to get rid of these stubs, wouldn't you?  It doesn't
>> >look like there's any point in building pcie-hisi-error.c at all
>> >unless CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES is enabled.
>>
>> The stub is added because this interface is expected to use by the
>> other drivers as well.  Some drivers may not want add the build depend
>> on the CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES if the error reporting has less priority
>> in the driver.  However we can add dependency on
>CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES
>> for building pcie-hisi-error.c.
>
>The usual route is to add stubs when they're needed, not just in anticipation
>of some need that may never materialize.
ok. I will change in the next version.

Thanks,
Shiju