ACPI, APEI, ERST debug support
This patch adds debugging/testing support to ERST. A misc device is
implemented to export raw ERST read/write/clear etc operations to user
space. With this patch, we can add ERST testing support to
linuxfirmwarekit ISO (linuxfirmwarekit.org) to verify the kernel
support and the firmware implementation.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
index f8c668f..907e350 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
@@ -28,3 +28,12 @@
EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism, it is
mainly used for debugging and testing the other parts of
APEI and some other RAS features.
+
+config ACPI_APEI_ERST_DEBUG
+ tristate "APEI Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) Debug Support"
+ depends on ACPI_APEI
+ help
+ ERST is a way provided by APEI to save and retrieve hardware
+ error infomation to and from a persistent store. Enable this
+ if you want to debugging and testing the ERST kernel support
+ and firmware implementation.