linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI / APEI: Suppress message if HEST not present

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:03:51 +0100
From:   Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, sudeep.holla@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI / APEI: Suppress message if HEST not present

Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com> writes:

> According to the ACPI specification, firmware is not required to provide
> the Hardware Error Source Table (HEST). When HEST is not present, the
> following superfluous message is printed to the kernel boot log -
>
> [    3.460067] GHES: HEST is not enabled!
>
> Extend hest_disable variable to track whether the firmware provides this
> table and if it is not present skip any log output. The existing
> behaviour is preserved in all other cases.
>
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c |  4 ++--
>  drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 13 +++++++------
>  include/acpi/apei.h      |  8 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index d661d452b238..f8685bcbeff2 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -1262,10 +1262,10 @@ static int __init ghes_init(void)
>  {
>  	int rc;
>  
> -	if (acpi_disabled)
> +	if (acpi_disabled || hest_disable == HEST_NOT_FOUND)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
> -	if (hest_disable) {
> +	if (hest_disable == HEST_DISABLED) {
>  		pr_info(GHES_PFX "HEST is not enabled!\n");
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
> index 456b488eb1df..9cb74115a43d 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
>  
>  #define HEST_PFX "HEST: "
>  
> -bool hest_disable;
> +int hest_disable;
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hest_disable);
>  
>  /* HEST table parsing */
> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static int __init hest_ghes_dev_register(unsigned int ghes_count)
>  
>  static int __init setup_hest_disable(char *str)
>  {
> -	hest_disable = 1;
> +	hest_disable = HEST_DISABLED;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -232,9 +232,10 @@ void __init acpi_hest_init(void)
>  
>  	status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_HEST, 0,
>  				(struct acpi_table_header **)&hest_tab);
> -	if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND)
> -		goto err;
> -	else if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
> +	if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND) {
> +		hest_disable = HEST_NOT_FOUND;
> +		return;
> +	} else if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
>  		const char *msg = acpi_format_exception(status);
>  		pr_err(HEST_PFX "Failed to get table, %s\n", msg);
>  		rc = -EINVAL;
> @@ -257,5 +258,5 @@ void __init acpi_hest_init(void)
>  	pr_info(HEST_PFX "Table parsing has been initialized.\n");
>  	return;
>  err:
> -	hest_disable = 1;
> +	hest_disable = HEST_DISABLED;
>  }
> diff --git a/include/acpi/apei.h b/include/acpi/apei.h
> index 76284bb560a6..c46694abea28 100644
> --- a/include/acpi/apei.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/apei.h
> @@ -16,7 +16,13 @@
>  
>  #ifdef __KERNEL__
>  
> -extern bool hest_disable;
> +enum hest_status {
> +	HEST_ENABLED,
> +	HEST_DISABLED,
> +	HEST_NOT_FOUND,
> +};
> +
> +extern int hest_disable;
>  extern int erst_disable;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES
>  extern bool ghes_disable;

Ping!

Looks like this one has slipped through the cracks? Any objections
Boris?

Thanks,
Punit