EDAC: Add an edac_report parameter to EDAC

This new parameter is used to control how to report HW error reporting,
especially for newer Intel platform, like Ivybridge-EX, which contains
an enhanced error decoding functionality in the firmware, i.e. eMCA.
Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386310630-12529-2-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com
[ Boris: massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -881,6 +881,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 			The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests.
 
+	edac_report=	[HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event
+			Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"}
+			on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden
+			by other higher priority error reporting module.
+			off: disable H/W event reporting through EDAC.
+			force: enforce the use of EDAC to report H/W event.
+			default: on.
+
 	ekgdboc=	[X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging
 			ekgdboc=kbd
 

drivers/edac/edac_stub.c

@@ -29,6 +29,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_err_assert);
 
 static atomic_t edac_subsys_valid = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
+int edac_report_status = EDAC_REPORTING_ENABLED;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_report_status);
+
+static int __init edac_report_setup(char *str)
+{
+	if (!str)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (!strncmp(str, "on", 2))
+		set_edac_report_status(EDAC_REPORTING_ENABLED);
+	else if (!strncmp(str, "off", 3))
+		set_edac_report_status(EDAC_REPORTING_DISABLED);
+	else if (!strncmp(str, "force", 5))
+		set_edac_report_status(EDAC_REPORTING_FORCE);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+__setup("edac_report=", edac_report_setup);
+
 /*
  * called to determine if there is an EDAC driver interested in
  * knowing an event (such as NMI) occurred

include/linux/edac.h

@@ -35,6 +35,34 @@ extern void edac_atomic_assert_error(void);
 extern struct bus_type *edac_get_sysfs_subsys(void);
 extern void edac_put_sysfs_subsys(void);
 
+enum {
+	EDAC_REPORTING_ENABLED,
+	EDAC_REPORTING_DISABLED,
+	EDAC_REPORTING_FORCE
+};
+
+extern int edac_report_status;
+#ifdef CONFIG_EDAC
+static inline int get_edac_report_status(void)
+{
+	return edac_report_status;
+}
+
+static inline void set_edac_report_status(int new)
+{
+	edac_report_status = new;
+}
+#else
+static inline int get_edac_report_status(void)
+{
+	return EDAC_REPORTING_DISABLED;
+}
+
+static inline void set_edac_report_status(int new)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 static inline void opstate_init(void)
 {
 	switch (edac_op_state) {