linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v3 0/5] ACPI, APEI, APEI basic support

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912302019000.17125@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:19:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	ak@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 0/5] ACPI, APEI, APEI basic support

v2 replaced by v3 in acpi-test tree

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Huang Ying wrote:

> 
> APEI stands for ACPI Platform Error Interface, which allows to report
> errors (for example from chipset) to the operating system. This
> improves NMI handling especially. In addition it supports error
> serialization and error injection.
> 
> This patchset provides basic support for APEI, some important parts
> such as ERST, HEST generic error source and BEST are still missing
> because they are not finalized yet.
> 
> The HEST tabling parsing code will be used by PCIE AER intialization
> code to prevent touching PCIE root port in firmware first mode. EINJ
> can be used to test some RAS related code such as MCE and PCIE AER.
> 
> 
> v3:
> 
>  - Use acpi_os_read/write_port.
> 
>  - Fix error message for firmware bug.
> 
>  - Remove hest_exit.
> 
> v2:
> 
>  - Separate pre-map + atomic read/write into atomicio.c from
>    apei-base.c and in separated patch.
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