Re: [PATCH 08/17] ACPI, APEI, GHES, Support disable GHES at boot time

Don Zickus
2011-07-14T14:47:26Z

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 01:14:19PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Some machine may have broken firmware so that GHES and firmware first
> mode should be disabled. This patch adds support to that.

Does this still work if you have disabled ghes module support in the
previous patch?

Cheers,
Don

>
> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 8 ++++++++
> drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 17 +++++++++--------
> include/acpi/apei.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ struct ghes {
> };
> };
>
> +int ghes_disable;
> +module_param_named(disable, ghes_disable, bool, 0);
> +
> static int ghes_panic_timeout __read_mostly = 30;
>
> /*
> @@ -665,6 +668,11 @@ static int __init ghes_init(void)
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> + if (ghes_disable) {
> + pr_info(GHES_PFX "GHES is not enabled!\n");
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> rc = ghes_ioremap_init();
> if (rc)
> goto err;
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
> @@ -231,16 +231,17 @@ void __init acpi_hest_init(void)
> goto err;
> }
>
> - rc = apei_hest_parse(hest_parse_ghes_count, &ghes_count);
> - if (rc)
> - goto err;
> -
> - rc = hest_ghes_dev_register(ghes_count);
> - if (!rc) {
> - pr_info(HEST_PFX "Table parsing has been initialized.\n");
> - return;
> + if (!ghes_disable) {
> + rc = apei_hest_parse(hest_parse_ghes_count, &ghes_count);
> + if (rc)
> + goto err;
> + rc = hest_ghes_dev_register(ghes_count);
> + if (rc)
> + goto err;
> }
>
> + pr_info(HEST_PFX "Table parsing has been initialized.\n");
> + return;
> err:
> hest_disable = 1;
> }
> --- a/include/acpi/apei.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/apei.h
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>
> extern int hest_disable;
> extern int erst_disable;
> +extern int ghes_disable;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI
> void __init acpi_hest_init(void);
> --
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