Re: [PATCH v7 23/25] arm64: acpi: Make apei_claim_sea() synchronise with APEI's irq work

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 06:06:11PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> APEI is unable to do all of its error handling work in nmi-context, so
> it defers non-fatal work onto the irq_work queue. arch_irq_work_raise()
> sends an IPI to the calling cpu, but this is not guaranteed to be taken
> before returning to user-space.
> 
> Unless the exception interrupted a context with irqs-masked,
> irq_work_run() can run immediately. Otherwise return -EINPROGRESS to
> indicate ghes_notify_sea() found some work to do, but it hasn't
> finished yet.
> 
> With this apei_claim_sea() returning '0' means this external-abort was
> also notification of a firmware-first RAS error, and that APEI has
> processed the CPER records.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: gengdongjiu <gengdongjiu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>



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