Re: [PATCH v4] acpi, apei: add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support

[Fu Wei]

Hi Borislav, Harb,

On 19 January 2016 at 01:38, Abdulhamid, Harb <harba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 1/18/2016 11:08 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:08:00AM -0500, Abdulhamid, Harb wrote: >> Here
>> is my crack at massaging the language a bit more: "Under >> normal
>> circumstances, when a hardware error occurs, the kernel gets >> notified via
>> an NMI, MCE or some other method. When the error has a >> fatal severity or
>> is unrecoverable, the kernel would normally >> panic. > > So this is still
>> not exact. It all depends on what the hardware > does. Even more
>> importantly, does the hardware even run the error > handler and let it
>> access MCA banks to find about the error or does > it directly warm-reset
>> the system. > > The error can happen, it is critical, *nothing* might be
>> visible in > the MCA registers (this is x86-specific) and the machine would
>> reset. > Only when you warm-reset, you may or may not see anything in there.
>> > > In reading the BERT explanation in the ACPI spec, I have to say, it >
>> sounds pretty ok to me: > > "18.3.1 Boot Error Source > > Under normal
>> circumstances, when a hardware error occurs, the error > handler receives
>> control and processes the error. This gives OSPM a > chance to process the
>> error condition, report it, and optionally > attempt recovery. In some
>> cases, the system is unable to process an > error. For example, system
>> firmware or a management controller may > choose to reset the system or the
>> system might experience an > uncontrolled crash or reset.The boot error
>> source is used to report > unhandled errors that occurred in a previous
>> boot. This mechanism is > described in the BERT table." > > I think we
>> should take that text. :)
> Agreed. That would be best.

Thanks, guys.
Will use this instead.


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