Re: [PATCH 1/7] apei, mce: Call MCE-specific code only for X86 architecture.

Tomasz Nowicki
2014-05-05T15:31:57Z

On 05.05.2014 16:53, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:34:41PM +0200, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
>> acpi_disable_cmcff as global value can switch off/on MC entries
>> analysing via kernel args.
>
> No, it switches off firmware first mode for correctable errors because
> of buggy BIOSes - 9ad95879cd1b2 (what else...)
>
>> This glob value resides in x86 ACPI code and has meaning only for MCE
>> related mechanism,
>
> Of course it doesn't!
>
>> that is why I have moved it under hest_parse_cmc.
>
> See APEI section in the ACPI spec "18.4 Firmware First Error Handling."
>
> Regardless of what your version of APEI does, you actually shouldn't
> need to touch acpi_disable_cmcff at all as it not arch-specific.
>

You are right! I will fix that big misunderstanding from my side in next
patch version.

Thanks,
Tomasz