Re: [PATCH] acpi: apei: check for pending errors when probing HED type GHES entries

2017-03-28 Thread Baicar, Tyler
On 3/28/2017 4:00 PM, Al Stone wrote: On 03/28/2017 02:14 PM, Tyler Baicar wrote: If a HED type error occurs prior to GHES probing, the kernel will never report the error. The HED driver will see that no notifiers are registers, and clear the interrupt. ..."registers" or "registered"? Oops :)

Re: [PATCH] acpi: apei: check for pending errors when probing HED type GHES entries

2017-03-28 Thread Al Stone
On 03/28/2017 02:14 PM, Tyler Baicar wrote: > If a HED type error occurs prior to GHES probing, the kernel will > never report the error. The HED driver will see that no notifiers > are registers, and clear the interrupt. ..."registers" or "registered"? > This becomes a more serious problem with

[PATCH] acpi: apei: check for pending errors when probing HED type GHES entries

2017-03-28 Thread Tyler Baicar
If a HED type error occurs prior to GHES probing, the kernel will never report the error. The HED driver will see that no notifiers are registers, and clear the interrupt. This becomes a more serious problem with firmware that supports GHESv2 acknowledgements from the kernel. The firmware will pop