From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [Patch] MCE, APEI: Don't enable CMCI when Firmware First mode is set in HEST for corrected machine checks Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 23:22:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20130508212237.GI30955@pd.tnic> References: <1367881102.4518.68.camel@oc3432500282.ibm.com> <20130506232537.GF22041@pd.tnic> <1367897566.4518.83.camel@oc3432500282.ibm.com> <20130507131946.GC7633@pd.tnic> <1367941214.4518.90.camel@oc3432500282.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:35509 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751031Ab3EHVUf (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 May 2013 17:20:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1367941214.4518.90.camel@oc3432500282.ibm.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Max Asbock Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com, naveen.n.rao@in.ibm.com, ananth@in.ibm.com, lcm@linux.vnet.ibm.com On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:40:14AM -0700, Max Asbock wrote: > + * When Firmware First mode is specified in HEST for Corrected > + * Machine Checks, these errors are expected to be reported by the > + * firmware through a Generic Harware Event Source (GHES). In this > + * case error reporting through CMCI should not be enabled so it > + * won't interfere with the firmware. Ok, hold on: by accident I fell over the code in ghes_init() which blubbers about APEI FF too. Isn't that the same thing? Because if yes, you won't need any of the HEST header parsing here. So what's up? Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --