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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-03-01 08:42:33 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-03-01 08:42:33 +0400
commitad6c2c2eb34f234d6253292b9b3c047614fbfe7e (patch)
tree8ceb00db9874c09f3002b5ca579f1f9146b30a28 /drivers/edac/Kconfig
parent19cc90f58d4f2538b4cf5371681a057d2e5209f2 (diff)
parentb0769891ba7baa53f270dc70d71934748beb4c5b (diff)
downloadlinux-ad6c2c2eb34f234d6253292b9b3c047614fbfe7e.tar.xz
Merge branch 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac
Pull EDAC fixes and ghes-edac from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: "For: - Some fixes at edac drivers (i7core_edac, sb_edac, i3200_edac); - error injection support for i5100, when EDAC debug is enabled; - fix edac when it is loaded builtin (early init for the subsystem); - a "Firmware First" EDAC driver, allowing ghes to report errors via EDAC (ghes-edac). With regards to ghes-edac, this fixes a longstanding BZ at Red Hat that happens with Nehalem and Sandy Bridge CPUs: when both GHES and i7core_edac or sb_edac are running, the error reports are unpredictable, as both BIOS and OS race to access the registers. With ghes-edac, the EDAC core will refuse to register any other concurrent memory error driver. This patchset moves the ghes struct definitions to a separate header file (include/acpi/ghes.h) and adds 3 hooks at apei/ghes.c to register/unregister and to report errors via ghes-edac. Those changes were acked by ghes driver maintainer (Huang)." * 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: (30 commits) i5100_edac: convert to use simple_open() ghes_edac: fix to use list_for_each_entry_safe() when delete list items ghes_edac: Fix RAS tracing ghes_edac: Make it compliant with UEFI spec 2.3.1 ghes_edac: Improve driver's printk messages ghes_edac: Don't credit the same memory dimm twice ghes_edac: do a better job of filling EDAC DIMM info ghes_edac: add support for reporting errors via EDAC ghes_edac: Register at EDAC core the BIOS report ghes: add the needed hooks for EDAC error report ghes: move structures/enum to a header file edac: add support for error type "Info" edac: add support for raw error reports edac: reduce stack pressure by using a pre-allocated buffer edac: lock module owner to avoid error report conflicts edac: remove proc_name from mci structure edac: add a new memory layer type edac: initialize the core earlier edac: better report error conditions in debug mode i5100_edac: Remove two checkpatch warnings ...
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/edac/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/drivers/edac/Kconfig b/drivers/edac/Kconfig
index acb709bfac0f..e443f2c1dfd1 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/edac/Kconfig
@@ -80,6 +80,29 @@ config EDAC_MM_EDAC
occurred so that a particular failing memory module can be
replaced. If unsure, select 'Y'.
+config EDAC_GHES
+ bool "Output ACPI APEI/GHES BIOS detected errors via EDAC"
+ depends on ACPI_APEI_GHES && (EDAC_MM_EDAC=y)
+ default y
+ help
+ Not all machines support hardware-driven error report. Some of those
+ provide a BIOS-driven error report mechanism via ACPI, using the
+ APEI/GHES driver. By enabling this option, the error reports provided
+ by GHES are sent to userspace via the EDAC API.
+
+ When this option is enabled, it will disable the hardware-driven
+ mechanisms, if a GHES BIOS is detected, entering into the
+ "Firmware First" mode.
+
+ It should be noticed that keeping both GHES and a hardware-driven
+ error mechanism won't work well, as BIOS will race with OS, while
+ reading the error registers. So, if you want to not use "Firmware
+ first" GHES error mechanism, you should disable GHES either at
+ compilation time or by passing "ghes.disable=1" Kernel parameter
+ at boot time.
+
+ In doubt, say 'Y'.
+
config EDAC_AMD64
tristate "AMD64 (Opteron, Athlon64) K8, F10h"
depends on EDAC_MM_EDAC && AMD_NB && X86_64 && EDAC_DECODE_MCE