Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] acpi: apei: Do not panic() on PCIe errors reported through GHES

[Tyler Baicar]

On 5/22/2018 10:32 AM, Alex G. wrote:
> I think the biggest problem is having a policy to panic on "fatal"
> errors, instead of letting the error handler make that decision. I'd
> much rather kill that stupid policy, but people seem to like it for some
> reason.
You can get around that panic and still have the error handled as AER_FATAL in
the current code. Your FW needs to mark the error as RECOVERABLE and then
set the CPER_SEC_RESET flag.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.17-rc6/source/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c#L450

Thanks,
Tyler

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