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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 19:42:59 +0800
From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...el.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
Tomasz Nowicki <tn@...ihalf.com>
Cc: tbaicar@...eaurora.org, rruigrok@...eaurora.org,
"Abdulhamid, Harb" <harba@....qualcomm.com>,
G Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
Al Stone <al.stone@...aro.org>,
Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
Linaro ACPI Mailman List <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>, bp <bp@...en8.de>,
"matt.fleming" <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support
Hi Borislav,
On 7 January 2016 at 19:27, <fu.wei@...aro.org> wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.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 error.
>
> BERT: Obtained BERT iomem region <00000000fe801000-00000000fe802000> for BERT.
> [Hardware Error]: Error record from previous boot:
> [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal
> [Hardware Error]: Error 0, type: fatal
> [Hardware Error]: section_type: memory error
> [Hardware Error]: physical_address: 0x00000000fe800000
> [Hardware Error]: physical_address_mask: 0x0000000000000fff
> [Hardware Error]: card: 0 module: 1 bank: 0 device: 1 row: 1 column: 1 bit_pos
>
> [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@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> Tested-by: Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang <zjzhang@...eaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>
> Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
> ---
> Changelog:
> v3: 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/bert.c | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/acpi/apei.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 742f69d..2310e97 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -555,6 +555,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
>
> bootmem_debug [KNL] Enable bootmem allocator debug messages.
>
> + bert_disable [ACPI]
> + Disable Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support.
> +
This comes from the original version of BERT patch
But I don't think we need this, and I don't see any benefit of this.
Any suggestion ? Or anything I missed?
> bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards)
> bttv.radio= Most important insmod options are available as
> kernel args too.
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile
> index 5d575a9..e50573d 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile
> @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES) += ghes.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ) += einj.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_ERST_DEBUG) += erst-dbg.o
>
> -apei-y := apei-base.o hest.o erst.o
> +apei-y := apei-base.o hest.o erst.o bert.o
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..6f6ae38
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/bert.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
> +/*
> + * APEI Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support
> + *
> + * Copyright 2011 Intel Corp.
> + * Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
> + *
> + * 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.
> + *
> + * For more information about BERT, please refer to ACPI Specification
> + * version 4.0, section 17.3.1
> + *
> + * This file is licensed under GPLv2.
> + *
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/acpi.h>
> +#include <linux/io.h>
> +
> +#include "apei-internal.h"
> +
> +#undef pr_fmt(fmt)
> +#define pr_fmt(fmt) "BERT: " fmt
> +
> +static int bert_disable;
> +
> +static void __init bert_print_all(struct acpi_bert_region *region,
> + unsigned int region_len)
> +{
> + /*
> + * We use cper_estatus_* which uses struct acpi_hest_generic_status,
> + * struct acpi_hest_generic_status and acpi_bert_region are the same
> + * (Generic Error Status Block), so we declare the "estatus" here.
> + */
> + struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus =
> + (struct acpi_hest_generic_status *)region;
> + int remain = region_len;
> + u32 estatus_len;
> +
> + /* The records have been polled*/
> + if (!estatus->block_status)
> + return;
> +
> + while (remain > sizeof(struct acpi_bert_region)) {
> + /*
> + * Test Generic Error Status Block first,
> + * if the data(Offset, Length) is invalid, we just return,
> + * because we can't trust the length data from this block.
> + */
> + if (cper_estatus_check(estatus)) {
> + pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid error record\n");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + estatus_len = cper_estatus_len(estatus);
> + if (remain < estatus_len) {
> + pr_err(FW_BUG "Invalid status block length (%u)\n",
> + estatus_len);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + pr_info_once(HW_ERR "Error records from previous boot:\n");
> +
> + cper_estatus_print(KERN_INFO HW_ERR, estatus);
> +
> + /*
> + * Because the boot error source is "one-time polled" type,
> + * clear Block Status of current Generic Error Status Block,
> + * once it's printed.
> + */
> + estatus->block_status = 0;
> +
> + estatus = (void *)estatus + estatus_len;
> + if (!estatus->block_status)
> + return; /* No more error records */
> +
> + remain -= estatus_len;
> + }
> +}
> +
> +static int __init setup_bert_disable(char *str)
> +{
> + bert_disable = 1;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +__setup("bert_disable", setup_bert_disable);
> +
> +static int __init bert_check_table(struct acpi_table_bert *bert_tab)
> +{
> + if (bert_tab->header.length < sizeof(struct acpi_table_bert) ||
> + bert_tab->region_length < sizeof(struct acpi_bert_region))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int __init bert_init(void)
> +{
> + struct acpi_bert_region *boot_error_region;
> + struct acpi_table_bert *bert_tab;
> + unsigned int region_len;
> + acpi_status status;
> + int rc = 0;
> +
> + if (acpi_disabled)
> + return 0;
> +
> + if (bert_disable) {
> + pr_info("Boot Error Record Table support is disabled\n");
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> + status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_BERT, 0, (struct acpi_table_header **)&bert_tab);
> + if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND)
> + return 0;
> + if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> + pr_err("get table failed, %s\n", acpi_format_exception(status));
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> + rc = bert_check_table(bert_tab);
> + if (rc) {
> + pr_err(FW_BUG "table invalid\n");
> + return rc;
> + }
> +
> + region_len = bert_tab->region_length;
> + if (!request_mem_region(bert_tab->address, region_len, "APEI BERT")) {
> + pr_err("Can't request iomem region <%016llx-%016llx>\n",
> + (unsigned long long)bert_tab->address,
> + (unsigned long long)bert_tab->address + region_len - 1);
> + return -EIO;
> + }
> +
> + boot_error_region = ioremap_cache(bert_tab->address, region_len);
> + if (boot_error_region) {
> + bert_print_all(boot_error_region, region_len);
> + iounmap(boot_error_region);
> + } else {
> + rc = -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> + release_mem_region(bert_tab->address, region_len);
> +
> + return rc;
> +}
> +
> +late_initcall(bert_init);
> diff --git a/include/acpi/apei.h b/include/acpi/apei.h
> index 76284bb..284801a 100644
> --- a/include/acpi/apei.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/apei.h
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ extern bool ghes_disable;
> #else
> #define ghes_disable 1
> #endif
> +extern int bert_disable;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI
> void __init acpi_hest_init(void);
> --
> 2.5.0
>
--
Best regards,
Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat Software (Beijing) Co.,Ltd.Shanghai Branch
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