ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source memory error support
Generic Hardware Error Source provides a way to report platform
hardware errors (such as that from chipset). It works in so called
"Firmware First" mode, that is, hardware errors are reported to
firmware firstly, then reported to Linux by firmware. This way, some
non-standard hardware error registers or non-standard hardware link
can be checked by firmware to produce more valuable hardware error
information for Linux.
Now, only SCI notification type and memory errors are supported. More
notification type and hardware error type will be added later. These
memory errors are reported to user space through /dev/mcelog via
faking a corrected Machine Check, so that the error memory page can be
offlined by /sbin/mcelog if the error count for one page is beyond the
threshold.
On some machines, Machine Check can not report physical address for
some corrected memory errors, but GHES can do that. So this simplified
GHES is implemented firstly.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.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 5f0a41c..f8c668f 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
@@ -7,6 +7,20 @@
especially. In addition it supports error serialization and
error injection.
+config ACPI_APEI_GHES
+ tristate "APEI Generic Hardware Error Source"
+ depends on ACPI_APEI && X86
+ select ACPI_HED
+ help
+ Generic Hardware Error Source provides a way to report
+ platform hardware errors (such as that from chipset). It
+ works in so called "Firmware First" mode, that is, hardware
+ errors are reported to firmware firstly, then reported to
+ Linux by firmware. This way, some non-standard hardware
+ error registers or non-standard hardware link can be checked
+ by firmware to produce more valuable hardware error
+ information for Linux.
+
config ACPI_APEI_EINJ
tristate "APEI Error INJection (EINJ)"
depends on ACPI_APEI && DEBUG_FS