ACPI, APEI, APEI supporting infrastructure
authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tue, 18 May 2010 06:35:12 +0000 (14:35 +0800)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Thu, 20 May 2010 02:34:30 +0000 (22:34 -0400)
commita643ce207f3e70030bdb431e2a363cc111a60c1a
tree417a72d16d0b501e5215db157d0ac390e19df7af
parent15651291a2f8c11e7e6a42d8bfde7a213ff13262
ACPI, APEI, APEI supporting infrastructure

APEI stands for ACPI Platform Error Interface, which 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.

For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification
version 4.0, chapter 17.

This patch provides some common functions used by more than one APEI
tables, mainly framework of interpreter for EINJ and ERST.

A machine readable language is defined for EINJ and ERST for OS to
execute, and so to drive the firmware to fulfill the corresponding
functions. The machine language for EINJ and ERST is compatible, so a
common framework is defined for them.

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>
drivers/acpi/Kconfig
drivers/acpi/Makefile
drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/acpi/apei/apei-internal.h [new file with mode: 0644]