cper.c contains code to decode and print "Common Platform Error Records".
Originally added under drivers/acpi/apei because the only user was in that
same directory - but now we have another consumer, and we shouldn't have
to force CONFIG_ACPI_APEI get access to this code.
Since CPER is defined in the UEFI specification - the logical home for
this code is under drivers/firmware/efi/
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
---
Matt: as discussed earlier on the mailing list ... just looking
for your "Acked-by" so this can go on top of the patch series in
the x86/mce branch of the tip tree that already makes a bunch of
changes to cper.c
Based on Chen Gong's original patch that moved cper.c to lib/
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
index 252f0e818a49..08eadb4a57cb 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
@@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ source "drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig"
config ACPI_EXTLOG
tristate "Extended Error Log support"
- depends on X86_MCE && ACPI_APEI
+ depends on X86_MCE
+ select EFI
+ select UEFI_CPER
default n
help
Certain usages such as Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) require
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
index f0c1ce95a0ec..786294bb682c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ config ACPI_APEI
bool "ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI)"
select MISC_FILESYSTEMS
select PSTORE
+ select EFI
+ select UEFI_CPER
depends on X86
help
APEI allows to report errors (for example from the chipset)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile
index d1d1bc0a4ee1..5d575a955940 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES) += ghes.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ) += einj.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_ERST_DEBUG) += erst-dbg.o
-apei-y := apei-base.o hest.o cper.o erst.o
+apei-y := apei-base.o hest.o erst.o
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
index b0fc7c79dfbb..8dfdd2a1cf12 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
@@ -36,4 +36,7 @@ config EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE
backend for pstore by default. This setting can be overridden
using the efivars module's pstore_disable parameter.
+config UEFI_CPER
+ defbool n
+
endmenu
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile
index 99245ab5a79c..9ba156d3c775 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
obj-y += efi.o vars.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_VARS) += efivars.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE) += efi-pstore.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_UEFI_CPER) += cper.o
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/cper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/acpi/apei/cper.c
rename to drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c
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