ACPI, APEI, EINJ Param support is disabled by default

EINJ parameter support is only usable for some specific BIOS.
Originally, it is expected to have no harm for BIOS does not support
it.  But now, we found it will cause issue (memory overwriting) for
some BIOS.  So param support is disabled by default and only enabled
when newly added module parameter named "param_extension" is
explicitly specified.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
index dfab71848dc..5cc699ba545 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
@@ -48,12 +48,19 @@ directory apei/einj. The following files are provided.
 - param1
   This file is used to set the first error parameter value. Effect of
   parameter depends on error_type specified. For memory error, this is
-  physical memory address.
+  physical memory address.  Only available if param_extension module
+  parameter is specified.
 
 - param2
   This file is used to set the second error parameter value. Effect of
   parameter depends on error_type specified. For memory error, this is
-  physical memory address mask.
+  physical memory address mask.  Only available if param_extension
+  module parameter is specified.
+
+Injecting parameter support is a BIOS version specific extension, that
+is, it only works on some BIOS version.  If you want to use it, please
+make sure your BIOS version has the proper support and specify
+"param_extension=y" in module parameter.
 
 For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification
 version 4.0, section 17.5.