RE: [RESEND v2] ACPI: APEI: Skip initialization of GHES_ASSIST structures for Machine Check Architecture

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon Nov 06 2023 - 15:42:39 EST


> To support GHES_ASSIST on Machine Check Architecture (MCA) error sources,
> a set of GHES structures is provided by the system firmware for each MCA
> error source. Each of these sets consists of a GHES structure for each MCA
> bank on each logical CPU, with all structures of a set sharing a common
> Related Source ID, equal to the Source ID of one of the MCA error source
> structures.[1] On SOCs with large core counts, this typically equates to
> tens of thousands of GHES_ASSIST structures for MCA under
> "/sys/bus/platform/drivers/GHES".

What combination of CONFIG options and BIOS table support results in this?

I don't see much under "/sys/bus/platform/drivers/GHES" on my lab machine
(Dual socket * 36 cores * HT = 144 logical CPUs).

-Tony