Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread gengdongjiu
HI James, Thanks for the mail, for your some question, I think that is how to use NOTIFY_SEI, this patch just add a API to other user calling(such as KVM), because KVM needs to use that. > > Hi Dongjiu Geng, > > On 17/10/17 09:02, Dongjiu Geng wrote: > > ARMv8.2 requires implementation of t

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread gengdongjiu
Hi james, On 2017/10/18 18:26, James Morse wrote: > Hi Dongjiu Geng, > > On 17/10/17 09:02, 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 >> f

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread James Morse
Hi Dongjiu Geng, On 17/10/17 09:02, 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 paragraph is merging two things that aren't r

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread gengdongjiu
On 2017/10/18 18:04, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:44:48AM +0100, James Morse wrote: >> What should we call this thing? > My only pet peeve is having abbreviations everywhere and nothing > explaining them. > > So whatever you guys decide upon and as long as there's an explana

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread gengdongjiu
On 2017/10/18 17:44, James Morse wrote: >> The thing is abbreviated as "SEI" and apparently means "System Error >> Interrupt". Nothing else. > ARM has 'external abort', which are either synchronous or asynchronous, both > are > delivered as different types of exception. > > Asynchronous external

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:44:48AM +0100, James Morse wrote: > What should we call this thing? My only pet peeve is having abbreviations everywhere and nothing explaining them. So whatever you guys decide upon and as long as there's an explanation what those things mean and you stick with that na

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread James Morse
Hi Borislav! On 18/10/17 10:25, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 05:17:27PM +0800, gengdongjiu wrote: >> Thanks Borislav, can I write it as asynchronous exception or >> asynchronous abort? > > WTF?! Yup. > The thing is abbreviated as "SEI" and apparently means "System Error > I

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 05:17:27PM +0800, gengdongjiu wrote: > Thanks Borislav, can I write it as asynchronous exception or > asynchronous abort? WTF?! The thing is abbreviated as "SEI" and apparently means "System Error Interrupt". Nothing else. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, G

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread gengdongjiu
On 2017/10/18 17:06, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 01:00:44PM +0800, gengdongjiu wrote: >> SError is System Error, which is a asynchronous exception in the Internal >> CPU. >> >> In the ARM RAS Extension, there are mainly two type abort for CPU: >> SEA(Synchronous External Abor

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 01:00:44PM +0800, gengdongjiu wrote: > SError is System Error, which is a asynchronous exception in the Internal CPU. > > In the ARM RAS Extension, there are mainly two type abort for CPU: > SEA(Synchronous External Abort) > SEI(SError Interrupt) And you're not writing it

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-17 Thread gengdongjiu
Hi Borislav, On 2017/10/18 1:06, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 04:02:21PM +0800, 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 handli

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] acpi: apei: Add SEI notification type support for ARMv8

2017-10-17 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 04:02:21PM +0800, 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. Because this error source parsing and handling