specification/json/cper-json-section-descriptor.json

{
    "$id": "cper-json-section-descriptor",
    "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
    "type": "object",
    "description": "Common Platform Record Section Descriptor as defined in UEFI Appendix N section 2.2",
    "required": [
        "sectionOffset",
        "sectionLength",
        "revision",
        "flags",
        "sectionType",
        "severity"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false,
    "properties": {
        "sectionOffset": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Offset in bytes of the section body from the base of the record header."
        },
        "sectionLength": {
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "The length in bytes of the section body."
        },
        "revision": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This is a 2-byte field representing a major and minor version number for the error record definition in BCD format.",
            "required": ["major", "minor"],
            "properties": {
                "major": {
                    "type": "integer",
                    "minimum": 0
                },
                "minor": {
                    "type": "integer",
                    "minimum": 0
                }
            }
        },
        "flags": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
                "primary",
                "containmentWarning",
                "reset",
                "errorThresholdExceeded",
                "resourceNotAccessible",
                "latentError",
                "propagated",
                "overflow"
            ],
            "properties": {
                "primary": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If set, identifies the section as the section to be associated with the error condition."
                },
                "containmentWarning": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If set, the error was not contained within the processor or memory hierarchy and the error may have propagated to persistent storage or network."
                },
                "reset": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If set, the component has been reset and must be re-initialized or re-enabled by the operating system prior to use."
                },
                "errorThresholdExceeded": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If set, OS may choose to discontinue use of this resource."
                },
                "resourceNotAccessible": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If set, the resource could not be queried for error information due to conflicts with other system software or resources."
                },
                "latentError": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If set this flag indicates that action has been taken to ensure error containment"
                },
                "propagated": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If set this flag indicates the section is to be associated with an error that has been propagated due to hardware poisoning."
                },
                "overflow": {
                    "type": "boolean",
                    "description": "If set this flag indicates the firmware has detected an overflow of buffers/queues that are used to accumulate, collect, or report errors"
                }
            }
        },
        "sectionType": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This field holds a pre-assigned GUID value indicating that it is a section of a particular error.",
            "required": ["data", "type"],
            "properties": {
                "data": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "pattern": "^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$"
                },
                "type": {
                    "type": "string"
                }
            }
        },
        "fruID": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "GUID representing the FRU ID, if it exists, for the section reporting the error. The default value is zero indicating an invalid FRU ID."
        },
        "severity": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "This field indicates the severity associated with the error section.",
            "required": ["code", "name"],
            "properties": {
                "code": {
                    "type": "integer",
                    "minimum": 0
                },
                "name": {
                    "type": "string"
                }
            }
        },
        "fruText": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ASCII string identifying the FRU hardware."
        }
    }
}