Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] ACPI: APEI: GHES: Add NVIDIA Vera CPER decoder and tests

[Kai-Heng Feng]

On Tue Jun 16, 2026 at 11:44 AM CST, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:

A gentle ping...

> Vera is NVIDIA's next-generation server SoC. It reports hardware
> errors via ACPI GHES using a CPER section format distinct from the
> existing Grace section. Without this series, firmware-reported errors
> on Vera platforms are received but not decoded.
>
> Patch 1 refactors the Grace decoder to separate parsing from logging,
> preparing it for testability and for sharing types with the new Vera
> decoder.
>
> Patches 2-4 add the Vera decoder, KUnit coverage for both decoders,
> and an EINJ-based kselftest for end-to-end validation on real hardware.
>
> Kai-Heng Feng (4):
>   ACPI: APEI: GHES: Refactor Grace decoder helpers
>   ACPI: APEI: GHES: Add NVIDIA Vera decoder
>   ACPI: APEI: GHES: Add Grace and Vera KUnit coverage
>   selftests: firmware: Add NVIDIA GHES EINJ selftest
>
>  drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig                     |  17 +-
>  drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile                    |   1 +
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes-nvidia-test-fixtures.h | 233 ++++++
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes-nvidia-test.c          | 704 ++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes-nvidia.c               | 480 ++++++++++--
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes-nvidia.h               |  63 ++
>  tools/testing/selftests/firmware/Makefile     |   4 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/firmware/config       |   5 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/firmware/einj_lib.sh  | 189 +++++
>  .../selftests/firmware/ghes_nvidia_einj.sh    | 144 ++++
>  .../firmware/ghes_nvidia_einj_profiles.sh     |  46 ++
>  11 files changed, 1838 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/apei/ghes-nvidia-test-fixtures.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/apei/ghes-nvidia-test.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/apei/ghes-nvidia.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/firmware/einj_lib.sh
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/firmware/ghes_nvidia_einj.sh
>  create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/firmware/ghes_nvidia_einj_profiles.sh