Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:00:52 +0200 | From | Tomasz Nowicki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] acpi, apei, ghes: Introduce ARCH_HAS_ACPI_APEI_NMI to make NMI error notification a GHES feature. |
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On 19.06.2014 16:27, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:02:57PM +0200, Tomasz Nowicki wrote: >> Currently APEI depends on x86 architecture. It is because of NMI hardware >> error notification of GHES which is currently supported by x86 only. >> However, many other APEI features can be still used perfectly by other >> architectures. >> >> This commit adds ARCH_HAS_ACPI_APEI_NMI which will be used in next patches >> for NMI related code isolation in ghes.c file. Only NMI error notification >> feature depends on x86 so let it be hard selected for x86 arch. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org> >> --- >> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + >> drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig | 8 +++++++- >> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig >> index 3fc9b12..e1dc819 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig >> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig >> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ config X86 >> select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS >> select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT >> select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO >> + select ARCH_HAS_ACPI_APEI_NMI >> select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 >> select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK >> select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING if X86_64 >> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig >> index c4dac71..9f6c3ec 100644 >> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig >> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig >> @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ config ACPI_APEI >> select MISC_FILESYSTEMS >> select PSTORE >> select UEFI_CPER >> - depends on X86 > > Now this can practically be enabled on any architecture, AFAICT. Which > is wrong. > > I think a better solution would be to have another HAVE_ symbol which > each arch which sports APEI selects. Like in the diff below ontop of > this patch, also incorporating Robert's comments. > > You'll have to do select HAVE_ACPI_APEI on arm too. > > Hmm? >
Now that it turns out we have to provide at least tlb_flush_... arch function, APEI can not be selected by any architecture. So you are right I will introduce HAVE_ACPI_APEI in next version of patches. Thanks.
Tomasz
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