ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI)

selects

CONFIG_MISC_FILESYSTEMS
CONFIG_PSTORE
CONFIG_UEFI_CPER

depends

CONFIG_ACPI
CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI

is selected by

CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES

modulename: apei.ko

and/or

mce-apei.ko
configname: CONFIG_ACPI_APEI

Linux Kernel Configuration

└─> Power management and ACPI options

└─> ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support

└─> ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI)

APEI allows to report errors (for example from the chipset)
to the operating system. This improves NMI handling
especially. In addition it supports error serialization and
error injection.

source code:

drivers/acpi/apei/