Re: [PATCH RFC v4 5/6] firmware/efi: Process CXL Component Events

[Ira Weiny]

Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:12:10 +0000
> Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:28:03 -0800
> > Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Jonathan Cameron wrote:  
> > > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 06:28:01 -0800
> > > > Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >     
> > > 
> > > [snip]
> > >   
> > > > > > __packed attribute just for cper_cxl_event_rec still fails to properly 
> > > > > > align structure elements. Looks like, __packed attribute is needed for 
> > > > > > all structs (cper_cxl_event_devid and cper_cxl_event_sn) inside 
> > > > > > cper_cxl_event_rec.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Seems easier to use global pragma instead.. I could test and obtain the 
> > > > > > output as expected using pragma..      
> > > > > 
> > > > > I did not know that was acceptable in the kernel but I see you used it in
> > > > > cper_cxl.h before...
> > > > > 
> > > > > Ok I'll do that and spin again.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks so much for testing this!  I was out last week and still don't have
> > > > > a test environment.    
> > > > 
> > > > Easy to hack into QEMU :)  Hmm. I have a CCIX patch set from years ago
> > > > somewhere that does similar. Would be easy to repurposed. Looks like
> > > > I never published them (just told people to ask if they wanted them :( ).
> > > > 
> > > > Anyhow, if useful I can dig them out.    
> > > 
> > > If you have a branch with them with a somewhat latest qemu that could work
> > > too.  
> > They are ancient and based on GHES emulation that got reworked before being
> > merged. I had a quick go at a forwards port but this is a bigger job than
> > I expected. May be a little while :(
> 
> Working again (embarrassingly I had the error source numbers reversed due
> to a merge resolution that went wrong which took me a day to find). I'll flesh
> out the injection but it will basically look like normal error injection
> via qmp (json records) with a bonus parameter to stick them out as via
> GHESv2 / CPER rather than AER internal error.  I've not figured out how
> to wire HEST up for x86 emulation yet though so it's ARM virt only for now.
> (HEST isn't created for x86 qemu machines whereas it is for arm virt with ras=on)
> Obviously that emulation is wrong in all sorts of ways as I should be dealing
> with firmware/OSPM negotiation and setting the messaging up etc but meh
> - it works for exercising the code :)
> 
> On the plus side I get nice trace points using your series and Smita's one.
> Quite a bit of data is 0s at the moment as I'm lazy and it's the end of the day
> here - I'll fix that up later this week as I can see 'everything' in QEMU
> and the register values etc are already handled via the native injection paths.

Thanks for the testing!
Ira