GHES (Generic Hardware Error Source) is used to process hardware error
notification in firmware first mode. But because firmware first mode
can be turned on but can not be turned off, it is unreasonable to
unload the GHES module with firmware first mode turned on. To avoid
confusion, this patch makes GHES can be enabled/disabled in
configuration time, but not built as module and unloaded at run time.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Geert Uytterhoeven ran a dependency checker which kicked out this warning:
+ warning: (ACPI_APEI) selects PSTORE which has unmet direct dependencies (MISC_FILESYSTEMS): => N/A
Randy confirmed that the fix was to "select MISC_FILESYSTEMS" too.
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The AER error information printing support is implemented in
drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aer_print.c. So some string constants, functions
and macros definitions can be re-used without being exported.
The original PCIe AER error information printing function is not
re-used directly because the overall format is quite different. And
changing the original printing format may make some original users'
scripts broken.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
CC: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The 'error record serialization table' in ACPI provides a suitable
amount of persistent storage for use by the pstore filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch adds debugging/testing support to ERST. A misc device is
implemented to export raw ERST read/write/clear etc operations to user
space. With this patch, we can add ERST testing support to
linuxfirmwarekit ISO (linuxfirmwarekit.org) to verify the kernel
support and the firmware implementation.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Generic Hardware Error Source provides a way to report platform
hardware errors (such as that from chipset). It works in so called
"Firmware First" mode, that is, hardware errors are reported to
firmware firstly, then reported to Linux by firmware. This way, some
non-standard hardware error registers or non-standard hardware link
can be checked by firmware to produce more valuable hardware error
information for Linux.
Now, only SCI notification type and memory errors are supported. More
notification type and hardware error type will be added later. These
memory errors are reported to user space through /dev/mcelog via
faking a corrected Machine Check, so that the error memory page can be
offlined by /sbin/mcelog if the error count for one page is beyond the
threshold.
On some machines, Machine Check can not report physical address for
some corrected memory errors, but GHES can do that. So this simplified
GHES is implemented firstly.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism, this is useful for
debugging and testing of other APEI and RAS features.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
APEI stands for ACPI Platform Error Interface, which allows to report
errors (for example from the chipset) to the operating system. This
improves NMI handling especially. In addition it supports error
serialization and error injection.
For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification
version 4.0, chapter 17.
This patch provides some common functions used by more than one APEI
tables, mainly framework of interpreter for EINJ and ERST.
A machine readable language is defined for EINJ and ERST for OS to
execute, and so to drive the firmware to fulfill the corresponding
functions. The machine language for EINJ and ERST is compatible, so a
common framework is defined for them.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Huang Ying