Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] acpi: apei: Do not panic() when correctable errors are marked as fatal.

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:00:53AM -0500, Alex G. wrote:
> Firmware-first.

Ok, my guess was right.

> We could probably use more of the native AER print functions, but that's
> beyond the scope of this patch.

No no, this does not belong in this patchset.

> Like the exact thing that this patch series implements? :)

Exact thing? I don't think so.

No, your patchset is grafting some funky and questionable side-handler
which gets to see the PCIe errors first, out-of-line and then it
practically downgrades their severity outside of the error processing
flow.

What I've been telling you to do is to extend ghes_severity() to
give the lower than PANIC severity for CPER_SEC_PCIE errors first
so that the machine doesn't panic from them anymore and those PCIe
errors get processed in the normal error processing path down
through ghes_do_proc() and then land in ghes_handle_aer(). No adhoc
->handle_irqsafe thing - just the normal straightforward error
processing path.

There, in ghes_handle_aer(), you do the check whether the device is
still there - i.e., you try to apply some heuristics to detect the error
type and why the system is complaining - you maybe even check whether
the NVMe device is still there - and *then* you do the proper recovery
action.

And you document for the future people looking at this code *why* you're
doing this.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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