On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:33:52PM -0500, Alexandru Gagniuc wrote:
> The policy was to panic() when GHES said that an error is "Fatal".
> This logic is wrong for several reasons, as it doesn't take into
> account what caused the error.
>
> PCIe fatal errors indicate that the link to a device is either
> unstable or unusable. They don't indicate that the machine is on fire,
> and they are not severe enough that we need to panic(). Instead of
> relying on crackmonkey firmware, evaluate the error severity based on
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please keep the smartass formulations for the ML only and do not let
them leak into commit messages.
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke...@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index c9f1971333c1..49318fba409c 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ static void ghes_handle_memory_failure(struct
> acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata, int
> * GHES_SEV_RECOVERABLE -> AER_NONFATAL
> * GHES_SEV_RECOVERABLE && CPER_SEC_RESET -> AER_FATAL
> * These both need to be reported and recovered from by the AER driver.
> - * GHES_SEV_PANIC does not make it to this handling since the kernel must
> - * panic.
> + * GHES_SEV_PANIC -> AER_FATAL
> */
> static void ghes_handle_aer(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata)
> {
> @@ -459,6 +458,46 @@ static void ghes_handle_aer(struct
> acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata)
> #endif
> }
>
> +/* PCIe errors should not cause a panic. */
> +static int ghes_sec_pcie_severity(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata)
> +{
> + struct cper_sec_pcie *pcie_err = acpi_hest_get_payload(gdata);
> +
> + if (pcie_err->validation_bits & CPER_PCIE_VALID_DEVICE_ID &&
> + pcie_err->validation_bits & CPER_PCIE_VALID_AER_INFO &&
> + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_PCIEAER))
How is PCIe error severity dependent on whether the AER error reporting
driver is enabled (and possibly not even loaded) on the system?
> + return CPER_SEV_RECOVERABLE;
> +
> + return ghes_cper_severity(gdata->error_severity);
> +}
> +/*
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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