From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ard Biesheuvel Subject: Re: [PATCH V17 08/11] efi: print unrecognized CPER section Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 10:08:13 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1495225933-4410-1-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org> <1495225933-4410-9-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1495225933-4410-9-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu To: Tyler Baicar Cc: "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , KVM devel mailing list , Matt Fleming , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Robert Moore , Paul Gortmaker , Lv Zheng , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , Fu Wei , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" , Russell King , gengdongjiu@huawei.com, "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , eun.taik.lee@samsung.com, shijie.huang@arm.com, Laura Abbott , Len Brown , harba@codeaurora.org, John Garry , Marc Zyngier , Punit Agrawal List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On 19 May 2017 at 21:32, Tyler Baicar wrote: > UEFI spec allows for non-standard section in Common Platform Error > Record. This is defined in section N.2.3 of UEFI version 2.5. > > Currently if the CPER section's type (UUID) does not match with > one of the section types that the kernel knows how to parse, the > section is skipped. Therefore, user is not able to see > such CPER data, for instance, error record of non-standard section. > > This change prints out the raw data in hex in the dmesg buffer so > that non-standard sections are reported to the user. Non-standard > section type errors should be reported to the user because these > can include errors which are vendor specific. The data length is > taken from Error Data length field of Generic Error Data Entry. > > The following is a sample output from dmesg: > Hardware error from APEI Generic Hardware Error Source: 2 > It has been corrected by h/w and requires no further action > event severity: corrected > time: precise 2017-03-15 20:37:35 > Error 0, type: corrected > section type: unknown, d2e2621c-f936-468d-0d84-15a4ed015c8b > section length: 0x238 > 00000000: 4d415201 4d492031 453a4d45 435f4343 .RAM1 IMEM:ECC_C > 00000010: 53515f45 44525f42 00000000 00000000 E_QSB_RD........ > 00000020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ > 00000030: 00000000 00000000 01010000 01010000 ................ > 00000040: 00000000 00000000 00000005 00000000 ................ > 00000050: 01010000 00000000 00000001 00dddd00 ................ > ... > > The raw data from the error can then be decoded using vendor > specific tools. > > Signed-off-by: Tyler Baicar > CC: Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang > Reviewed-by: James Morse Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel > --- > drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c | 11 +++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c > index eac0854..d5a5855 100644 > --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c > +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/cper.c > @@ -585,8 +585,15 @@ static void cper_print_tstamp(const char *pfx, > else > goto err_section_too_small; > #endif > - } else > - printk("%s""section type: unknown, %pUl\n", newpfx, sec_type); > + } else { > + const void *err = acpi_hest_get_payload(gdata); > + > + printk("%ssection type: unknown, %pUl\n", newpfx, sec_type); > + printk("%ssection length: %#x\n", newpfx, > + gdata->error_data_length); > + print_hex_dump(newpfx, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 16, 4, err, > + gdata->error_data_length, true); > + } > > return; > > -- > Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. > Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, > a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html