[-v2,2/4] ACPI, APEI, GHES, Support disable GHES at boot time

Commit Message

Huang Ying June 27, 2011, 8:25 a.m. UTC

Some machine may have broken firmware so that GHES and firmware first
mode should be disabled.  This patch adds support to that.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <[e-mail]>
---
 drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c |    8 ++++++++
 drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c |   17 +++++++++--------
 include/acpi/apei.h      |    1 +
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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Patch

--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@  struct ghes {
 	};
 };
 
+int ghes_disable;
+module_param_named(disable, ghes_disable, bool, 0);
+
 static int ghes_panic_timeout	__read_mostly = 30;
 
 /*
@@ -665,6 +668,11 @@  static int __init ghes_init(void)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (ghes_disable) {
+		pr_info(GHES_PFX "GHES is not enabled!\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	rc = ghes_ioremap_init();
 	if (rc)
 		goto err;
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c
@@ -230,16 +230,17 @@  void __init acpi_hest_init(void)
 		goto err;
 	}
 
-	rc = apei_hest_parse(hest_parse_ghes_count, &ghes_count);
-	if (rc)
-		goto err;
-
-	rc = hest_ghes_dev_register(ghes_count);
-	if (!rc) {
-		pr_info(HEST_PFX "Table parsing has been initialized.\n");
-		return;
+	if (!ghes_disable) {
+		rc = apei_hest_parse(hest_parse_ghes_count, &ghes_count);
+		if (rc)
+			goto err;
+		rc = hest_ghes_dev_register(ghes_count);
+		if (rc)
+			goto err;
 	}
 
+	pr_info(HEST_PFX "Table parsing has been initialized.\n");
+	return;
 err:
 	hest_disable = 1;
 }
--- a/include/acpi/apei.h
+++ b/include/acpi/apei.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ 
 
 extern int hest_disable;
 extern int erst_disable;
+extern int ghes_disable;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_APEI
 void __init acpi_hest_init(void);