[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Read OPAL error log and export it through sysfs
Stewart Smith
stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Mar 5 15:05:46 EST 2014
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 08:56 +0530, Vasant Hegde wrote:
>> On 03/05/2014 07:26 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> > Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>> >>> +int64_t opal_send_ack_elog(uint64_t log_id);
>> >>
>> >> Stewart,
>> >>
>> >> Why are you creating 64bit log ID when actual ID is 32bit ?
>> >
>> > IIRC it's what OPAL gives us, even though FSP MBOX spec says 32bit.
>> >
>>
>> Stewart,
>>
>> Better ask OPAL folks to fix in firmware ?
>
> Why bother ? That way if future versions of OPAL want to use 64-bit IDs,
> they can.
Yeah, that was my thought. The number of error logs on some POWER8
systems almost needs 64bit already :)
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