linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] efi: parse ARM error information value

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Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:30:13 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>, matt@...eblueprint.co.uk,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, will.deacon@....com,
        james.morse@....com, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: parse ARM error information value

On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 11:23 -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote:
> ARM errors just print out the error information value, then the
> value needs to be manually decoded as per the UEFI spec. Add
> decoding of the ARM error information value so that the kernel
> logs capture all of the valid information at first glance.
> 
> ARM error information value decoding is captured in UEFI 2.7
> spec tables 263-265.

Could it be located in separate file?

> +			printk("%stransaction type: %s\n", pfx,
> +			       arm_err_trans_type_strs[trans_type]);

Plain printk():s?

> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_TRANSACTION_TYPE	0x0001
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_OPERATION_TYPE	0x0002
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_LEVEL		0x0004
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_PROC_CONTEXT_CORRUPT	0x0008
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_CORRECTED		0x0010
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_PRECISE_PC		0x0020
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_RESTARTABLE_PC	0x0040
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_PARTICIPATION_TYPE	0x0080
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_TIME_OUT		0x0100
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_ADDRESS_SPACE	0x0200
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_MEM_ATTRIBUTES	0x0400
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_VALID_ACCESS_MODE		0x0800

BIT() is already being used in this file.

> +
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_TRANSACTION_SHIFT		16
> +#define CPER_ARM_ERR_TRANSACTION_MASK		0x3

Mask is mask, so GENMASK()

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy