Re: [PATCH v3] ACPI / APEI: Suppress message if HEST not present

[Punit Agrawal]

"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 12:34:55 PM CEST Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:20:20PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> >> According to the ACPI specification, firmware is not required to provide
>> >> the Hardware Error Source Table (HEST). When HEST is not present, the
>> >> following superfluous message is printed to the kernel boot log -
>> >> 
>> >> [    3.460067] GHES: HEST is not enabled!
>> >> 
>> >> Extend hest_disable variable to track whether the firmware provides this
>> >> table and if it is not present skip any log output. The existing
>> >> behaviour is preserved in all other cases.
>> >> 
>> >> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
>> >> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>> >> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >> 
>> >> Changes in v3:
>> >> * Grouped hest_disable status checking into a switch/case for clarity
>> >> 
>> >>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c |  7 ++++++-
>> >>  drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 13 +++++++------
>> >>  include/acpi/apei.h      |  8 +++++++-
>> >>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Hopefully Rafael can pick the patch for the upcoming merge window.
>
> Applied already, should show up in linux-next tomorrow.

Neat! Thanks for picking up the patch.

>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>
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