linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] acpi: apei: call into AER handling regardless of severity

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Message-ID: <2ec14466-bc71-3edd-7342-7cea1d754fb5@codeaurora.org>
Date:   Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:37:45 -0500
From:   Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, tony.luck@...el.com, will.deacon@....com,
        james.morse@....com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] acpi: apei: call into AER handling regardless of
 severity

On 11/9/2017 4:46 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:13:12PM -0700, Tyler Baicar wrote:
>> Currently the GHES code only calls into the AER driver for
>> recoverable type errors. This is incorrect because errors of
>> other severities do not get logged by the AER driver and do not
>> get exposed to user space via the AER trace event. So, call
>> into the AER driver for PCIe errors regardless of the severity
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
>> ---
>>   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 8 +++-----
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>> index 839c3d5..bb65fa6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>> @@ -458,14 +458,12 @@ static void ghes_handle_memory_failure(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata, int
>>   #endif
>>   }
> Where did the explanatory comment go?
Ah, forgot to but that back in. I'll send an update shortly.

Thanks,
Tyler

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