Re: [PATCH] PCIe AER: honor ACPI HEST FIRMWARE FIRST mode

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:55:50 -0800
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Jesse Barnes
> <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:51:24 -0600
> > Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> From 97ec121f91e5c76dc037f8d2abaea84c5476676e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> >> 2001 From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 23:18:11 -0500
> >> Subject: [PATCH] PCIe AER: honor ACPI HEST FIRMWARE FIRST mode
> >>
> >> Feedback from Hidetoshi Seto and Kenji Kaneshige incorporated.
> >> ÂThis correctly handles PCI-X bridges, PCIe root ports and
> >> endpoints, and prints debug messages when invalid/reserved types
> >> are found in the HEST. ÂPCI devices not in domain/segment 0 are
> >> not represented in HEST, thus will be ignored.
> >>
> >> Today, the PCIe Advanced Error Reporting (AER) driver attaches
> >> itself to every PCIe root port for which BIOS reports it should,
> >> via ACPI _OSC.
> >>
> >> However, _OSC alone is insufficient for newer BIOSes. ÂPart of ACPI
> >> 4.0 is the new APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interfaces) which is a way
> >> for OS and BIOS to handshake over which errors for which components
> >> each will handle. ÂOne table in ACPI 4.0 is the Hardware Error
> >> Source Table (HEST), where BIOS can define that errors for certain
> >> PCIe devices (or all devices), should be handled by BIOS
> >> ("Firmware First mode"), rather than be handled by the OS.
> >>
> >> Dell PowerEdge 11G server BIOS defines Firmware First mode in
> >> HEST, so that it may manage such errors, log them to the System
> >> Event Log, and possibly take other actions. ÂThe aer driver should
> >> honor this, and not attach itself to devices noted as such.
> >>
> >> Furthermore, Kenji Kaneshige reminded us to disallow changing the
> >> AER registers when respecting Firmware First mode. ÂPlatform
> >> firmware is expected to manage these, and if changes to them are
> >> allowed, it could break that firmware's behavior.
> >>
> >> The HEST parsing code may be replaced in the future by a more
> >> feature-rich implementation. ÂThis patch provides the minimum
> >> needed to prevent breakage until that implementation is available.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >
> > Applied to my linux-next branch, thanks.
> >
> 
> can not find acpi_hest.c and acpi_hest.h
> 
> maybe need to wait acpi hest code is there?

Arg, when I fixed up a conflict in the patch I forgot to add those
files to the commit.  They were in my tree so I didn't see a build
error... Fixing now.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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