Em Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:56:28 +0100
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> Em Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:01:15 +0100
> Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:21:27 +0000
> > Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:38:23 +0100
> > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Em Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:22:36 +0100
> > > > Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 11:09:34 +0000
> > > > > Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:42:41 +0100
> > > > > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Now that the ghes preparation patches were merged, let's add support
> > > > > > > for error injection.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On this series, the first 6 patches chang to the math used to calculate offsets at HEST
> > > > > > > table and hardware_error firmware file, together with its migration code. Migration tested
> > > > > > > with both latest QEMU released kernel and upstream, on both directions.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The next patches add a new QAPI to allow injecting GHESv2 errors, and a script using such QAPI
> > > > > > > to inject ARM Processor Error records.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If I'm counting well, this is the 19th submission of my error inject patches.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Looks good to me. All remaining trivial things are in the category
> > > > > > of things to consider only if you are doing another spin. The code
> > > > > > ends up how I'd like it at the end of the series anyway, just
> > > > > > a question of the precise path to that state!
> > > > >
> > > > > if you look at series as a whole it's more or less fine (I guess you
> > > > > and me got used to it)
> > > > >
> > > > > however if you take it patch by patch (as if you've never seen it)
> > > > > ordering is messed up (the same would apply to everyone after a while
> > > > > when it's forgotten)
> > > > >
> > > > > So I'd strongly suggest to restructure the series (especially 2-6/14).
> > > > > re sum up my comments wrt ordering:
> > > > >
> > > > > 0 add testcase for HEST table with current HEST as expected blob
> > > > > (currently missing), so that we can be sure that we haven't messed
> > > > > existing tables during refactoring.
> > >
> > > To potentially save time I think Igor is asking that before you do anything
> > > at all you plug the existing test hole which is that we don't test HEST
> > > at all. Even after this series I think we don't test HEST. You add
> > > a stub hest and exclusion but then in patch 12 the HEST stub is deleted whereas
> > > it should be replaced with the example data for the test.
> >
> > that's what I was saying.
> > HEST table should be in DSDT, but it's optional and one has to use
> > 'ras=on' option to enable that, which we aren't doing ATM.
> > So whatever changes are happening we aren't seeing them in tests
> > nor will we see any regression for the same reason.
> >
> > While white listing tables before change should happen and then updating them
> > is the right thing to do, it's not sufficient since none of tests
> > run with 'ras' enabled, hence code is not actually executed.
>
> Ok. Well, again we're not modifying HEST table structure on this
> changeset. The only change affecting HEST is when the number of entries
> increased from 1 to 2.
>
> Now, looking at bios-tables-test.c, if I got it right, I should be doing
> something similar to the enclosed patch, right?
>
> If so, I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1. from where should I get the HEST table? dumping the table from the
> running VM?
>
> 2. what values should I use to fill those variables:
>
> int hest_offset = 40 /* HEST */;
> int hest_entry_size = 4;
Thanks,
Mauro
As a reference, this is the HEST table before the patch series:
/*
* Intel ACPI Component Architecture
* AML/ASL+ Disassembler version 20240927 (64-bit version)
* Copyright (c) 2000 - 2023 Intel Corporation
*
* Disassembly of hest.dat
*
* ACPI Data Table [HEST]
*
* Format: [HexOffset DecimalOffset ByteLength] FieldName : FieldValue (in hex)
*/
[000h 0000 004h] Signature : "HEST" [Hardware Error Source Table]
[004h 0004 004h] Table Length : 00000084
[008h 0008 001h] Revision : 01
[009h 0009 001h] Checksum : E0
[00Ah 0010 006h] Oem ID : "BOCHS "
[010h 0016 008h] Oem Table ID : "BXPC "
[018h 0024 004h] Oem Revision : 00000001
[01Ch 0028 004h] Asl Compiler ID : "BXPC"
[020h 0032 004h] Asl Compiler Revision : 00000001
[024h 0036 004h] Error Source Count : 00000001
[028h 0040 002h] Subtable Type : 000A [Generic Hardware Error Source V2]
[02Ah 0042 002h] Source Id : 0000
[02Ch 0044 002h] Related Source Id : FFFF
[02Eh 0046 001h] Reserved : 00
[02Fh 0047 001h] Enabled : 01
[030h 0048 004h] Records To Preallocate : 00000001
[034h 0052 004h] Max Sections Per Record : 00000001
[038h 0056 004h] Max Raw Data Length : 00000400
[03Ch 0060 00Ch] Error Status Address : [Generic Address Structure]
[03Ch 0060 001h] Space ID : 00 [SystemMemory]
[03Dh 0061 001h] Bit Width : 40
[03Eh 0062 001h] Bit Offset : 00
[03Fh 0063 001h] Encoded Access Width : 04 [QWord Access:64]
[040h 0064 008h] Address : 0000000139E40000
[048h 0072 01Ch] Notify : [Hardware Error Notification Structure]
[048h 0072 001h] Notify Type : 08 [SEA]
[049h 0073 001h] Notify Length : 1C
[04Ah 0074 002h] Configuration Write Enable : 0000
[04Ch 0076 004h] PollInterval : 00000000
[050h 0080 004h] Vector : 00000000
[054h 0084 004h] Polling Threshold Value : 00000000
[058h 0088 004h] Polling Threshold Window : 00000000
[05Ch 0092 004h] Error Threshold Value : 00000000
[060h 0096 004h] Error Threshold Window : 00000000
[064h 0100 004h] Error Status Block Length : 00000400
[068h 0104 00Ch] Read Ack Register : [Generic Address Structure]
[068h 0104 001h] Space ID : 00 [SystemMemory]
[069h 0105 001h] Bit Width : 40
[06Ah 0106 001h] Bit Offset : 00
[06Bh 0107 001h] Encoded Access Width : 04 [QWord Access:64]
[06Ch 0108 008h] Address : 0000000139E40008
[074h 0116 008h] Read Ack Preserve : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFE
[07Ch 0124 008h] Read Ack Write : 0000000000000001
Raw Table Data: Length 132 (0x84)
0000: 48 45 53 54 84 00 00 00 01 E0 42 4F 43 48 53 20 // HEST......BOCHS
0010: 42 58 50 43 20 20 20 20 01 00 00 00 42 58 50 43 // BXPC ....BXPC
0020: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 FF FF 00 01 // ................
0030: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 40 00 04 // .............@..
0040: 00 00 E4 39 01 00 00 00 08 1C 00 00 00 00 00 00 // ...9............
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 // ................
0060: 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 40 00 04 08 00 E4 39 // .........@.....9
0070: 01 00 00 00 FE FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 01 00 00 00 // ................
0080: 00 00 00 00
