linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] ACPI / APEI: Suppress message if HEST not present

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Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:54:57 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:     Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, sudeep.holla@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ACPI / APEI: Suppress message if HEST not present

On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 12:34:55 PM CEST Punit Agrawal wrote:
> Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:20:20PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> >> 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>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >> Changes in v3:
> >> * Grouped hest_disable status checking into a switch/case for clarity
> >> 
> >>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c |  7 ++++++-
> >>  drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 13 +++++++------
> >>  include/acpi/apei.h      |  8 +++++++-
> >>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Hopefully Rafael can pick the patch for the upcoming merge window.

Applied already, should show up in linux-next tomorrow.

Thanks,
Rafael