RE: [PATCH v1] ACPI: APEI: EINJ: Allow injection on legacy persistent memory

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> > I chatted offline with Dan Williams. He wondered whether this sanity
> > check should just be reduced to pass through any address except MMIO
> > and leave it to the BIOS to decide what is a legitimate injection
> > target.
>
> I guess that's fine, but wonder should the EINJ driver still exclude
> IORES_DESC_ACPI_TABLES and IORES_DESC_ACPI_NV_STORAGE? to prevent
> that, say, by coincidence or not an error "corrupted" EINJ table
> itself, or "corrupted" other ACPI data.

What if I want to find out what the system does with a corrupted ACPI table?

See discussion earlier this year about limiting error injection:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/aDt77p9GYCIRIOMa@agluck-desk3/

-Tony




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