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From: Suzuki.Poulose@arm•com (Suzuki K Poulose)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2 1/9] acpi: apei: read ack upon ghes record consumption
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 16:53:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57053100.7050305@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459955578-24602-2-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org>

On 06/04/16 16:12, Tyler Baicar wrote:
> A RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) controller
> may be a separate processor running in parallel with OS
> execution, and may generate error records for consumption by
> the OS. If the RAS controller produces multiple error records,
> then they may be overwritten before the OS has consumed them.
>
> The Generic Hardware Error Source (GHES) v2 structure
> introduces the capability for the OS to acknowledge the
> consumption of the error record generated by the RAS
> controller. A RAS controller supporting GHESv2 shall wait for
> the acknowledgment before writing a new error record, thus
> eliminating the race condition.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang <zjzhang@codeaurora•org>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Ruigrok <rruigrok@codeaurora•org>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora•org>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen Kaje <nkaje@codeaurora•org>


>   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
> +	hest_hdr = (struct acpi_hest_header *)generic;
> +	if (hest_hdr->type == ACPI_HEST_TYPE_GENERIC_ERROR_V2) {
> +		ghes->generic_v2 = (struct acpi_hest_generic_v2 *)generic;
> +		rc = apei_map_generic_address(
> +			&ghes->generic_v2->read_ack_register);
> +		if (rc)
> +			goto err_unmap;
> +	} else
> +		ghes->generic_v2 = NULL;

...

>   err_unmap:
>   	apei_unmap_generic_address(&generic->error_status_address);
> +	if (ghes->generic_v2)
> +		apei_unmap_generic_address(
> +			&ghes->generic_v2->read_ack_register);
>   err_free:
>   	kfree(ghes);
>   	return ERR_PTR(rc);
> @@ -279,6 +295,9 @@ static void ghes_fini(struct ghes *ghes)
>   {
>   	kfree(ghes->estatus);
>   	apei_unmap_generic_address(&ghes->generic->error_status_address);
> +	if (ghes->generic_v2)
> +		apei_unmap_generic_address(
> +			&ghes->generic_v2->error_status_address);

I am not familiar with the APEI code, but is this error_status_address or
read_ack_register ? We don't seem to be mapping error_status_address in generic_v2 header
which is introduced in this patch ? Am I missing something ?

Suzuki

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-06 15:12 [PATCH V2 0/9] Add UEFI 2.6 and ACPI 6.1 updates for RAS on ARM64 Tyler Baicar
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 1/9] acpi: apei: read ack upon ghes record consumption Tyler Baicar
2016-04-06 15:53   ` Suzuki K Poulose [this message]
2016-04-06 20:43     ` Baicar, Tyler
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 2/9] ras: acpi/apei: cper: generic error data entry v3 per ACPI 6.1 Tyler Baicar
2016-04-14 10:22   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2016-04-20 21:25     ` Baicar, Tyler
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 3/9] efi: parse ARMv8 processor error Tyler Baicar
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 4/9] arm64: exception: handle Synchronous External Abort Tyler Baicar
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 5/9] arm64: exception: handle instruction abort at current EL Tyler Baicar
2016-04-06 15:36   ` Marc Zyngier
2016-04-06 21:36     ` Baicar, Tyler
2016-04-07  7:54       ` Marc Zyngier
2016-04-11 22:57         ` Abdulhamid, Harb
2016-04-12 14:17           ` Marc Zyngier
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 6/9] acpi: apei: handle SEA notification type for ARMv8 Tyler Baicar
2016-04-20 21:38   ` Baicar, Tyler
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 7/9] acpi: apei: panic OS with fatal error status block Tyler Baicar
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 8/9] efi: print unrecognized CPER section Tyler Baicar
2016-04-06 15:12 ` [PATCH V2 9/9] ras: acpi / apei: generate trace event for " Tyler Baicar

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