From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: tbaicar@codeaurora.org (Baicar, Tyler)
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 09:37:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH V12 00/10] Add UEFI 2.6 and ACPI 6.1 updates for RAS on
 ARM64
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On 3/7/2017 4:37 AM, James Morse wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
>
> On 06/03/17 20:44, Tyler Baicar wrote:
>> When a memory error, CPU error, PCIe error, or other type of hardware error
>> that's covered by RAS occurs, firmware should populate the shared GHES memory
>> location with the proper GHES structures to notify the OS of the error.
>> For example, platforms that implement firmware first handling may implement
>> separate GHES sources for corrected errors and uncorrected errors. If the
>> error is an uncorrectable error, then the firmware will notify the OS
>> immediately since the error needs to be handled ASAP. The OS will then be able
>> to take the appropriate action needed such as offlining a page. If the error
>> is a corrected error, then the firmware will not interrupt the OS immediately.
>> Instead, the OS will see and report the error the next time it's GHES timer
>> expires. The kernel will first parse the GHES structures and report the errors
>> through the kernel logs and then notify the user space through RAS trace
>> events. This allows user space applications such as RAS Daemon to see the
>> errors and report them however the user desires. This patchset extends the
>> kernel functionality for RAS errors based on updates in the UEFI 2.6 and
>> ACPI 6.1 specifications.
> This series doesn't apply cleanly to v4.11-rc1, what did you base it on?
>
> Please base this on a v4.11 release candidate if you want it considered for v4.12.
>
This was based on 4.10, I will base it on 4.11-rc1 for the next patch set.

Thanks,
Tyler

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