Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] acpi, apei: use EFI memmap to map GHES memory

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Jun 05 2015 - 06:26:06 EST


On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 10:57:01AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> [ Cc'ing Boris and Tony. Folks original patch is here,
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433185940-24770-4-git-send-email-zjzhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ]
>
> On Mon, 01 Jun, at 12:12:20PM, Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang wrote:
> > From: "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" <zjzhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > With ACPI APEI firmware first handling, generic hardware error
> > record is updated by firmware in GHES memory region. When firmware
> > updated GHES memory region in DDR without going through cache,

What is DDR?

I think this needs to be clarified first before we go any further.

I picked up on the sidelines that this might be arm64-specific stuff. If
so, your approach is wrong: you're merging efi_* facilities from x86 and
ia64 into generic efi ones but then doing CONFIG_EFI ifdeffery in GHES.

What you should do instead is have arch-specific:

ghes_ioremap_pfn_irq()
ghes_iounmap_irq()
...

and whatever else functionality which is different on your arch and
which get called from the generic ghes.c driver.

In the arch-specific ones you can go wild with the ifdeffery and whatnot
is needed on that specific arch.

Something like that, at least.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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