linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Try printing all machine check banks known before panic

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 11:15:05 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	"ruiv.wang@...il.com" <ruiv.wang@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gong.chen@...ux.intel.com" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Wang, Rui Y" <rui.y.wang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Try printing all machine check banks known
 before panic

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:34:10PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> The SDM has this to say about EN=0 (in section 15.10.4.1 of volume 3B):
> 
>    When the EN flag is zero but the VAL and UC flags are one in
>    the IA32_MCi_STATUS register, the reported uncorrected error
>    in this bank is not enabled. As uncorrected errors with the
>    EN flag = 0 are not the source of machine check exceptions,
>    the MCE handler should log and clear non-enabled errors when
>    the S bit is set and should continue searching for enabled
>    errors from the other IA32_MCi_STATUS registers. Note that
>    when IA32_MCG_CAP [24] is 0, any uncorrected error condition
>    (VAL =1 and UC=1) including the one with the EN flag cleared
>    are fatal and the handler must signal the operating system to
>    reset the system. For the errors that do not generate machine
>    check exceptions, the EN flag has no meaning.
> 
> Note the "should log and clear".  We just clear ... just need to shuffle some code
> in mce.c to add the logging.

Sure, we can log those.

> But we still need something like Rui's patch - calling mcelog()
> doesn't ensure that we see something on the console about possible
> cause of the problem.

So you're saying we should drain the mcelog buffer to the console in
such situations before we panic? If so, there's drain_mcelog_buffer()
which could be changed to call print_mce() instead of going to the
x86_mce_decoder_chain.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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