Hi Dongjiu Geng,

(versions of patches 1,2 and 4 have been queued by Catalin)

(Nit 'ACPI / APEI:' is the normal subject prefix for ghes.c, this helps the
maintainers know which patches they need to pay attention to when you are
touching multiple trees)

On 06/01/18 16:02, Dongjiu Geng wrote:

ARMv8.2 requires implementation of the RAS extension.

In
this extension, it adds SEI(SError Interrupt) notification
type, this patch adds new GHES error source SEI handling
functions. 

This reads as if this patch is handling SError RAS notifications generated by a
CPU with the RAS extensions. These are about CPU->Software notifications. APEI
and GHES are a firmware first mechanism which is Software->Software.
Reading the v8.2 documents won't help anyone with the APEI/GHES code.

Please describe this from the ACPI view, "ACPI 6.x adds support for NOTIFY_SEI
as a GHES notification mechanism... ",  its up to the arch code to spot a v8.2
RAS Error based on the cpu caps.

This error source parsing and handling method
is similar with the SEA.

There are problems with doing this:

Oct. 18, 2017, 10:26 a.m. James Morse wrote:
| How do SEA and SEI interact?
|
| As far as I can see they can both interrupt each other, which isn't something
| the single in_nmi() path in APEI can handle. I thinks we should fix this
| first.

[..]

| SEA gets away with a lot of things because its synchronous. SEI isn't. Xie
| XiuQi pointed to the memory_failure_queue() code. We can use this directly
| from SEA, but not SEI. (what happens if an SError arrives while we are
| queueing memory_failure work from an IRQ).
|
| The one that scares me is the trace-point reporting stuff. What happens if an
| SError arrives while we are enabling a trace point? (these are static-keys
| right?)
|
|  I don't think we can just plumb SEI in like this and be done with it.
|  (I'm looking at teasing out the estatus cache code from being x86:NMI only.
|  This way we solve the same 'cant do this from NMI context' with the same
|  code'.)


I will post what I've got for this estatus-cache thing as an RFC, its not ready
to be considered yet.

Expose API ghes_notify_sei() to external users. External
modules can call this exposed API to parse APEI table and
handle the SEI notification.

external modules? You mean called by the arch code when it gets this NOTIFY_SEI?


Thanks,

James