[PATCH] data: klog.json: add better advice for a common firmware issue

Colin King colin.king at canonical.com
Fri Jan 25 10:52:11 UTC 2013


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

This adds better advice for a common firmware issue found with _SRS
controls, for example in Bug LP:#1076979

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 data/klog.json | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/data/klog.json b/data/klog.json
index 24ebd09..e78a203 100644
--- a/data/klog.json
+++ b/data/klog.json
@@ -2766,6 +2766,14 @@
    "compare_mode": "regex",
    "log_level": "LOG_LEVEL_HIGH",
    "tag": "FWTS_TAG_ACPI_PARSE_EXEC_FAIL",
+   "pattern": "ACPI Error.*Method (execution|parse\/execution) failed.*_SRS.*AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT",
+   "advice": "Method failed: ResourceSourceIndex is present but ResourceSource is not. This is a common issue from a particular BIOS vendor, the _SRS (Set Resource Settings) optional control takes a byte stream argument that specifies a new resource allocation for a device. The resource descriptors in the byte stream argument must be specified exactly as listed by _CRS.  However, in this case _SRS has been passed a byte stream that is too short and attempted to access bytes outside the buffer causing this error. This is a firmware bug that needs to be fixed.",
+   "label": "KlogAcpiBufferLimit"
+  },
+  {
+   "compare_mode": "regex",
+   "log_level": "LOG_LEVEL_HIGH",
+   "tag": "FWTS_TAG_ACPI_PARSE_EXEC_FAIL",
    "pattern": "ACPI Error.*Method (execution|parse\/execution) failed.*AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT",
    "advice": "Method failed: ResourceSourceIndex is present but ResourceSource is not.",
    "label": "KlogAcpiBufferLimit"
-- 
1.8.0




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