Re: [PATCH 2/5 -v2] acpi, apei, APEI supporting infrastructure

[Pavel Machek]

On Thu 2009-12-10 15:16:57, Huang Ying wrote:
> APEI stands for ACPI Platform Error Interface, which allows to report
> errors (for example from the chipset) to the operating system. This
> improves NMI handling especially. In addition it supports error
> serialization and error injection.
> 
> For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification
> version 4.0, chapter 17.
> 
> This patch provides some common functions used by more than one APEI
> tables, mainly framework of interpreter for EINJ and ERST.
> 
> A machine readable language is defined for EINJ and ERST for OS to
> execute, and so to drive the firmware to fulfill the corresponding
> functions. The machine language for EINJ and ERST is compatible, so a
> common framework is defined for them.

Does this mean we'll now try to run acpi interrpretter from NMI
context?

I don't see how that can work; NMI is really special... 

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