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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	Tyler Baicar <tyler@amperecomputing.com>,
	Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: acpi: Make apei_claim_sea() synchronise with APEI's irq work
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:41:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200324164152.GB3901@mbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200228174817.74278-4-james.morse@arm.com>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 05:48:17PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> APEI is unable to do all of its error handling work in nmi-context, so
> it defers non-fatal work onto the irq_work queue. arch_irq_work_raise()
> sends an IPI to the calling cpu, but this is not guaranteed to be taken
> before returning to user-space.
> 
> Unless the exception interrupted a context with irqs-masked,
> irq_work_run() can run immediately. Otherwise return -EINPROGRESS to
> indicate ghes_notify_sea() found some work to do, but it hasn't
> finished yet.
> 
> With this apei_claim_sea() returning '0' means this external-abort was
> also notification of a firmware-first RAS error, and that APEI has
> processed the CPER records.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> ---
> Changes since $last_year:
>  * Dropped all the tags ... its been a year.

I think this patch hasn't changed much since, so my ack still stands.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-24 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-28 17:48 [PATCH 0/3] ACPI / APEI: Kick the memory_failure() queue for synchronous errors James Morse
2020-02-28 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/memory-failure: Add memory_failure_queue_kick() James Morse
2020-02-28 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] ACPI / APEI: Kick the memory_failure() queue for synchronous errors James Morse
2020-03-09 17:07   ` Tyler Baicar OS
2020-02-28 17:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: acpi: Make apei_claim_sea() synchronise with APEI's irq work James Morse
2020-03-24 16:41   ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2020-03-20 19:19 ` [PATCH 0/3] ACPI / APEI: Kick the memory_failure() queue for synchronous errors Tyler Baicar OS

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