Re: [PATCH 3/3] ghes_edac: add platform check to enable ghes_edac

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Fri Jul 21 2017 - 09:40:29 EST


Em Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:34:41 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 07:50:03PM +0000, Kani, Toshimitsu wrote:
> > GHES / firmware-first still requires OS recovery actionsÂwhen an error
> > cannot be corrected by the platform. They are handled by ghes_proc(),
> > and ghes_edac remains its error-reporting wrapper.

What happens when the error can be corrected? Does it still report it to
userspace, or just silently hide the error?

If I remember well about a past discussion with some vendor, I was told
that the firmware can hide some errors from being reported. Is it
still the case?


Thanks,
Mauro