From 482908b49ebfa453dd0455910c951c750567c05d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Huang Ying Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:35:22 +0800 Subject: ACPI, APEI, Use ERST for persistent storage of MCE Traditionally, fatal MCE will cause Linux print error log to console then reboot. Because MCE registers will preserve their content after warm reboot, the hardware error can be logged to disk or network after reboot. But system may fail to warm reboot, then you may lose the hardware error log. ERST can help here. Through saving the hardware error log into flash via ERST before go panic, the hardware error log can be gotten from the flash after system boot successful again. The fatal MCE processing procedure with ERST involved is as follow: - Hardware detect error, MCE raised - MCE read MCE registers, check error severity (fatal), prepare error record - Write MCE error record into flash via ERST - Go panic, then trigger system reboot - System reboot, /sbin/mcelog run, it reads /dev/mcelog to check flash for error record of previous boot via ERST, and output and clear them if available - /sbin/mcelog logs error records into disk or network ERST only accepts CPER record format, but there is no pre-defined CPER section can accommodate all information in struct mce, so a customized section type is defined to hold struct mce inside a CPER record as an error section. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h index 32996f9fab67..fefcc69ee8b5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-internal.h @@ -28,3 +28,26 @@ extern int mce_ser; extern struct mce_bank *mce_banks; +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI +int apei_write_mce(struct mce *m); +ssize_t apei_read_mce(struct mce *m, u64 *record_id); +int apei_check_mce(void); +int apei_clear_mce(u64 record_id); +#else +static inline int apei_write_mce(struct mce *m) +{ + return -EINVAL; +} +static inline ssize_t apei_read_mce(struct mce *m, u64 *record_id) +{ + return 0; +} +static inline int apei_check_mce(void) +{ + return 0; +} +static inline int apei_clear_mce(u64 record_id) +{ + return -EINVAL; +} +#endif -- cgit v1.2.1