linux-kernel - Re: RFC: APEI hardware reduced profile

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Message-ID: <5333ECC4.5080208@linaro.org>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:17:56 +0100
From:	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@...sung.com>
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linaro-acpi <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Tony <tony.luck@...el.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: APEI hardware reduced profile

On 03/26/14 21:36, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:10:47PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Yet, it would be better if you could be a little more specific about
>> what are your plans and what are the common/not-common features that
>> you're mapping.
>
> Well, I don't see anything x86-specific in ghes.c on a quick scan - just
> the GHES gunk itself, which is the spec. Which begs the question, how
> much of the APEI spec is ARM going to implement and if it is a subset,
> this definitely needs to be handled cleanly. Judging by your text, it
> seems like you want to ignore the correctable errors part...?
>
> So yes, Tomasz, you want to be much more specific here :-)

Thanks for your comment. Please refer to my email to Mauro. I have put 
more explanation there.

Correctable errors are fine for ARM. But ARM is not going to have NMI 
ever. So as responded to Mauro, I am focusing on making NMI as the 
feature for ghes.c.

Thanks,
Tomasz
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