APEI stands for ACPI Platform Error Interface, which allows to report errors (for example from chipset) to the operating system. This improves NMI handling especially. In addition it supports error serialization and error injection. This patchset provides basic support for APEI, some important parts such as ERST, HEST generic error source and BEST are still missing because they are not finalized yet. The HEST tabling parsing code will be used by PCIE AER intialization code to prevent touching PCIE root port in firmware first mode. EINJ can be used to test some RAS related code such as MCE and PCIE AER. v3: - Use acpi_os_read/write_port. - Fix error message for firmware bug. - Remove hest_exit. v2: - Separate pre-map + atomic read/write into atomicio.c from apei-base.c and in separated patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
