kernel_optimize_test/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
Huang Ying d334a49113 ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source memory error support
Generic Hardware Error Source provides a way to report platform
hardware errors (such as that from chipset). It works in so called
"Firmware First" mode, that is, hardware errors are reported to
firmware firstly, then reported to Linux by firmware. This way, some
non-standard hardware error registers or non-standard hardware link
can be checked by firmware to produce more valuable hardware error
information for Linux.

Now, only SCI notification type and memory errors are supported. More
notification type and hardware error type will be added later. These
memory errors are reported to user space through /dev/mcelog via
faking a corrected Machine Check, so that the error memory page can be
offlined by /sbin/mcelog if the error count for one page is beyond the
threshold.

On some machines, Machine Check can not report physical address for
some corrected memory errors, but GHES can do that. So this simplified
GHES is implemented firstly.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-19 22:41:16 -04:00

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config ACPI_APEI
bool "ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI)"
depends on X86
help
APEI allows to report errors (for example from the chipset)
to the operating system. This improves NMI handling
especially. In addition it supports error serialization and
error injection.
config ACPI_APEI_GHES
tristate "APEI Generic Hardware Error Source"
depends on ACPI_APEI && X86
select ACPI_HED
help
Generic Hardware Error Source provides a way to report
platform hardware errors (such as that from chipset). It
works in so called "Firmware First" mode, that is, hardware
errors are reported to firmware firstly, then reported to
Linux by firmware. This way, some non-standard hardware
error registers or non-standard hardware link can be checked
by firmware to produce more valuable hardware error
information for Linux.
config ACPI_APEI_EINJ
tristate "APEI Error INJection (EINJ)"
depends on ACPI_APEI && DEBUG_FS
help
EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism, it is
mainly used for debugging and testing the other parts of
APEI and some other RAS features.