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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support
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Hi Borislav,

On 19 January 2016 at 18:12, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 05:34:02PM +0800, fu.wei@linaro.org wrote:
>> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
>>
>> ACPI/APEI is designed to verifiy/report H/W errors, like Corrected
>> Error(CE) and Uncorrected Error(UC). It contains four tables: HEST,
>> ERST, EINJ and BERT. The first three tables have been merged for
>> a long time, but because of lacking BIOS support for BERT, the
>> support for BERT is pending until now. Recently on ARM 64 platform
>> it is has been supported. So here we come.
>>
>> Under normal circumstances, when a hardware error occurs, kernel will
>> be notified via NMI, MCE or some other method, then kernel will
>> process the error condition, report it, and recover it if possible.
>> But sometime, the situation is so bad, so that firmware may choose to
>> reset directly without notifying Linux kernel.
>>
>> Linux kernel can use the Boot Error Record Table (BERT) to get the
>> un-notified hardware errors that occurred in a previous boot. In this
>> patch, the error information is reported via printk.
>>
>> For more information about BERT, please refer to ACPI Specification
>> version 6.0, section 18.3.1:
>> http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdf
>>
>> The following log is a BERT record after system reboot because of hitting
>> a fatal memory error:
>> BERT: Error records from previous boot:
>> [Hardware Error]: It has been corrected by h/w and requires no further action
>> [Hardware Error]: event severity: corrected
>> [Hardware Error]: Error 0, type: recoverable
>> [Hardware Error]: section_type: memory error
>> [Hardware Error]: error_status: 0x0000000000000400
>> [Hardware Error]: physical_address: 0xffffffffffffffff
>> [Hardware Error]: card: 1 module: 2 bank: 3 row: 1 column: 2 bit_position: 5
>> [Hardware Error]: error_type: 2, single-bit ECC
>>
>> [Tomasz Nowicki: Clear error status at the end of error handling]
>> [Tony: Applied some cleanups suggested by Fu Wei]
>> [Fu Wei: delete EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bert_disable), improve the code]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
>> Tested-by: Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang <zjzhang@codeaurora.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
>> Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>> Changelog:
>> v5: Drop some superfluous comments.
>> Use the introduce of BERT in ACPI Specification instead of original one
>> at the head of bert.c.
>> Fix typo in apei-internal.h
>> Simplify the introduce of bert_disable.
>>
>> v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/8/382
>> Fix the "#undef" bug
>> Improve the instruction of "bert_disable",
>> Delete the useless declaration in include/acpi/apei.h.
>>
>> v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/7/214
>> Merge the two patches
>> Do some improvements according to Borislav's suggestion.
>>
>> v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/18/336
>> Delete EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bert_disable), because "bert_disable" is only
>> used in bert.c for now.
>> Do some code-style cleanups.
>>
>> v1: The first upstream version submitted in linux-acpi mailing list:
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg57384.html
>>
>> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +
>> drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile | 2 +-
>> drivers/acpi/apei/apei-internal.h | 2 +-
>> drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c | 150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 4 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Great thanks for your help :-)

>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.



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