On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:27:42PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Add a boot option to disable firmware first mode for corrected errors.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 5 +++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h | 2 ++
> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 5 +++++
> drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 3 ++-
> 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
> index e9e8ddb..1228b22 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
> @@ -176,6 +176,11 @@ ACPI
>
> acpi=noirq Don't route interrupts
>
> + acpi=nocmcff Disable firmware first mode for corrected errors. This
> + disables parsing the HEST CMC error source to check if
> + firmware has set the FF flag. This may result in
> + duplicate corrected error reports.
Interesting, why? Why would we even need such an option? My impression
is, if ACPI tells us FF, MCE code doesn't poll those banks anymore. So
where do the duplicated reports come from?
Thanks.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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