Hi Tyler, On 06/03/17 20:44, Tyler Baicar wrote: > When a memory error, CPU error, PCIe error, or other type of hardware error > that's covered by RAS occurs, firmware should populate the shared GHES memory > location with the proper GHES structures to notify the OS of the error. > For example, platforms that implement firmware first handling may implement > separate GHES sources for corrected errors and uncorrected errors. If the > error is an uncorrectable error, then the firmware will notify the OS > immediately since the error needs to be handled ASAP. The OS will then be able > to take the appropriate action needed such as offlining a page. If the error > is a corrected error, then the firmware will not interrupt the OS immediately. > Instead, the OS will see and report the error the next time it's GHES timer > expires. The kernel will first parse the GHES structures and report the errors > through the kernel logs and then notify the user space through RAS trace > events. This allows user space applications such as RAS Daemon to see the > errors and report them however the user desires. This patchset extends the > kernel functionality for RAS errors based on updates in the UEFI 2.6 and > ACPI 6.1 specifications. This series doesn't apply cleanly to v4.11-rc1, what did you base it on? Please base this on a v4.11 release candidate if you want it considered for v4.12. Thanks, James -- 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
