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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Controlling access to an ERST, including: triggering, in response to an occurrence of an error, a SMI; adjusting, in response to the SMI and by a SMM RAS handler module, a slate of an access gate from a locked state to an unlocked state, the access gate controlling access to an ERST storage region; generating, by an OS MCE handler, an error record based on the error; accessing, by the OS MCE handler, an ACPI ERST to identify instructions for storing the error record at the ERST storage region; triggering, in response to the instructions and by the OS MCE handler, an additional SMI; determining, in response to the additional SMI and by a SMM handler, that the access gate is in the unlocked state; in response to determining that the access gate is in the unlocked state: storing, by the SMM handler, the error record at the ERST.