Re: [PATCH V2] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error

2017-08-24 Thread Baicar, Tyler
On 8/24/2017 2:14 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:12:31PM -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote: Currently we acknowledge errors before clearing the error status. This could cause a new error to be populated by firmware in-between the error acknowledgment and the error status clearing

Re: [PATCH V2] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error

2017-08-24 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:12:31PM -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote: > Currently we acknowledge errors before clearing the error status. > This could cause a new error to be populated by firmware in-between > the error acknowledgment and the error status clearing which would > cause the second error's sta

Re: [PATCH V2] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error

2017-08-23 Thread Baicar, Tyler
Hello Boris, And input on this patch? Thanks, Tyler On 8/3/2017 4:12 PM, Tyler Baicar wrote: Currently we acknowledge errors before clearing the error status. This could cause a new error to be populated by firmware in-between the error acknowledgment and the error status clearing which would

[PATCH V2] acpi: apei: clear error status before acknowledging the error

2017-08-03 Thread Tyler Baicar
Currently we acknowledge errors before clearing the error status. This could cause a new error to be populated by firmware in-between the error acknowledgment and the error status clearing which would cause the second error's status to be cleared without being handled. So, clear the error status be