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[v9,09/12] docs: acpi_hest_ghes: fix documentation for CPER size

Message ID e81a142a8de9e5b8e1c108a4bd089e4825a17132.1724556967.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
State New
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Series Add ACPI CPER firmware first error injection on ARM emulation | expand

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Mauro Carvalho Chehab Aug. 25, 2024, 3:46 a.m. UTC 
While the spec defines a CPER size of 4KiB for each record,
currently it is set to 1KiB. Fix the documentation and add
a pointer to the macro name there, as this may help to keep
it updated.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
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 docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst b/docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst
index 68f1fbe0a4af..c3e9f8d9a702 100644
--- a/docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst
+++ b/docs/specs/acpi_hest_ghes.rst
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@  Design Details
 (3) The address registers table contains N Error Block Address entries
     and N Read Ack Register entries. The size for each entry is 8-byte.
     The Error Status Data Block table contains N Error Status Data Block
-    entries. The size for each entry is 4096(0x1000) bytes. The total size
-    for the "etc/hardware_errors" fw_cfg blob is (N * 8 * 2 + N * 4096) bytes.
+    entries. The size for each entry is defined at the source code as
+    ACPI_GHES_MAX_RAW_DATA_LENGTH (currently 1024 bytes). The total size
+    for the "etc/hardware_errors" fw_cfg blob is
+    (N * 8 * 2 + N * ACPI_GHES_MAX_RAW_DATA_LENGTH) bytes.
     N is the number of the kinds of hardware error sources.
 
 (4) QEMU generates the ACPI linker/loader script for the firmware. The