mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ff mode for corrected errors

Add a boot option to disable firmware first mode for corrected errors.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <[e-mail]>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[e-mail]>

Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt

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   acpi=noirq	Don't route interrupts
 
+  acpi=nocmcff	Disable firmware first mode for corrected errors. This
+		disables parsing the HEST CMC error source to check if
+		firmware has set the FF flag. This may result in
+		duplicate corrected error reports.
+
 PCI
 
   pci=off		Don't use PCI

arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h

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 extern int acpi_skip_timer_override;
 extern int acpi_use_timer_override;
 extern int acpi_fix_pin2_polarity;
+extern int acpi_disable_cmcff;
 
 extern u8 acpi_sci_flags;
 extern int acpi_sci_override_gsi;
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 #define acpi_lapic 0
 #define acpi_ioapic 0
+#define acpi_disable_cmcff 0
 static inline void acpi_noirq_set(void) { }
 static inline void acpi_disable_pci(void) { }
 static inline void disable_acpi(void) { }

arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c

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 int acpi_lapic;
 int acpi_ioapic;
 int acpi_strict;
+int acpi_disable_cmcff;
 
 u8 acpi_sci_flags __initdata;
 int acpi_sci_override_gsi __initdata;
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 	/* "acpi=copy_dsdt" copys DSDT */
 	else if (strcmp(arg, "copy_dsdt") == 0) {
 		acpi_gbl_copy_dsdt_locally = 1;
+	}
+	/* "acpi=nocmcff" disables FF mode for corrected errors */
+	else if (strcmp(arg, "nocmcff") == 0) {
+		acpi_disable_cmcff = 1;
 	} else {
 		/* Core will printk when we return error. */
 		return -EINVAL;

drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c

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 		goto err;
 	}
 
-	apei_hest_parse(hest_parse_cmc, NULL);
+	if (!acpi_disable_cmcff)
+		apei_hest_parse(hest_parse_cmc, NULL);
 
 	if (!ghes_disable) {
 		rc = apei_hest_parse(hest_parse_ghes_count, &ghes_count);