linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/mce: Add instruction recovery signatures to mce-severity table

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 19:23:23 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	Chen Gong <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/mce: Add instruction recovery signatures to
 mce-severity table

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:28:35PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > I'm trying to figure out a quirk for processors that do generate
> > > EIPV=RIPV=0 signature for IFU errors. There are some case where
> > > we can work around the lack of EIPV.
> >
> > __mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks?
> 
> The quirk is a bit more extensive than just setting some flag in there
> for "if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == 45)". Sometime EIPV isn't set
> because the regs->ip and regs->cs really aren't valid. So  I'll need
> to do something like:
> 
> 	if (we are on Intel family 6 model 45 AND
>           this is a UC=1, PCC=0, AR=1, S=1, ADDRV=1, MCACOD=0x150 error AND
> 	    (virtophys(regs->ip) >> PAGE_SHIFT) == (MC(bank)_ADDR >> PAGE_SHIFT)) {
> 		/* ok to trust CS & IP */
> 		m.mcgstatus |= MCG_STATUS_EIPV;
> 	}

Hmm, maybe add a flag to struct mce or whatever comes handy in that
codepath which says ->on_this_cpu_it_is_ok_to_set_MCG_STATUS_EIPV and
query it in the mce_severity() thing?

Btw, this severities deal could be much more helpful if it were a bunch
of per-vendor, per-bank or whatever function pointers so that you can do
arbitrary filtering there.

> before running through the mce_severity() table lookup.
> 
> x86 doesn't seem to have a "virtophys()" that I can find. Closest is lookup_address(vaddr, level)
> which gets a pte (which is almost all the work).
> 
> Sigh!

What does __pa() do actually?

Oh, that's only for kernel memory, it seems.

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