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

[Borislav Petkov]

(snip useful explanation).

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:40:54PM -0500, Alex G. wrote:
> On the r740xd, FW just hides those errors from the OS with no further
> notification. On this machine BIOS sets things up such that non-posted
> requests report fatal (PCIe) errors. FW still tries very hard to hide
> this from the OS, and I think the heuristic is that if the drive
> physical presence is gone, don't even report the error.

Ok, second question: can you detect from the error signatures alone that
it was a surprise removal? How does such an error look like, in detail?
Got error logs somewhere to dump?

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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