linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 08/13] docs: acpi_hest_ghes: fix documentation for CPER size

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Message-ID: <e9c2a180d1c68fb114409c9ee5f40b64c332c390.1723793768.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:37:40 +0200
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: 
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
	Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@...wei.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
	Dongjiu Geng <gengdongjiu1@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	qemu-arm@...gnu.org,
	qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 08/13] docs: acpi_hest_ghes: fix documentation for CPER size

While the spec defines a CPER size of 4KiB for each record,
currently it is set to 1KiB. Fix the documentation and add
a pointer to the macro name there, as this may help to keep
it updated.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>
---
 docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst b/docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst
index 68f1fbe0a4af..c3e9f8d9a702 100644
--- a/docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst
+++ b/docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ Design Details
 (3) The address registers table contains N Error Block Address entries
     and N Read Ack Register entries. The size for each entry is 8-byte.
     The Error Status Data Block table contains N Error Status Data Block
-    entries. The size for each entry is 4096(0x1000) bytes. The total size
-    for the "etc/hardware_errors" fw_cfg blob is (N * 8 * 2 + N * 4096) bytes.
+    entries. The size for each entry is defined at the source code as
+    ACPI_GHES_MAX_RAW_DATA_LENGTH (currently 1024 bytes). The total size
+    for the "etc/hardware_errors" fw_cfg blob is
+    (N * 8 * 2 + N * ACPI_GHES_MAX_RAW_DATA_LENGTH) bytes.
     N is the number of the kinds of hardware error sources.
 
 (4) QEMU generates the ACPI linker/loader script for the firmware. The
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