Re: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI, Add APEI _OSC support

[Chen Gong]

ä 6/13/2011 10:50 PM, Don Zickus åé:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:05:38PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > In APEI firmware first mode, hardware error is reported by hardware to
> > firmware firstly, then firmware reports the error to Linux in a GHES
> > error record via POLL/SCI/IRQ/NMI etc.
> >
> > This may result in some issues if OS has no full APEI support.  So
> > some firmware implementation will work in a back-compatible mode by
> > default.  Where firmware will only notify OS in old-fashion, without
> > GHES record.  For example, for a fatal hardware error, only NMI is
> > signaled, no GHES record.
> >
> > To gain full APEI power on these machines, a special APEI _OSC needs
> > to be evaluated to tell firmware that Linux has full APEI support.
> > This patch add the APEI _OSC support.
>
> Using an Intel box I have over at RedHat, I was able to use this patch to
> get error injection (EINJ) to provide me a GHES record.  Prior to this
> patch I would just get unknown NMIs.
>
> Talking with Matthew Garret, I guess it seems that uuids like this are
> typical for ACPI.
>
> I can't speak for all the ACPI parts, but the patch looks simple and
> corret from my perspective.
Interesting, but I can't reproduce it on our machines by now. Would you
please share your test information such as machine type, BIOS
version, and test method (such as what type error you inject) ?
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