linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX -v2] x86, mce, inject: Make injected mce valid only during faked handler call

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Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:15:16 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX -v2] x86, mce, inject: Make injected mce valid only
 during faked handler call

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 16:59 +0800, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
[snip] 
> >>>> I believe what you want to do here is "make mce_rdmsrl()/mce_wrmsrl()
> >>>> to refer faked data only during faked handler call."
> >>>> Then what we have to do is making a flag to indicate that "now
> >>>> in faked handler call," for an example:
> >>>>
> >>>>     309         if (__get_cpu_var(mce_fake_in_progress)) {
> >>>>
> >>>> and:
> >>>> 	local_irq_save(flags);
> >>>> 	__get_cpu_var(mce_fake_in_progress) = 1;
> >>>> 	machine_check_poll(0, &b);
> >>>> 	__get_cpu_var(mce_fake_in_progress) = 0;
> >>>> 	local_irq_restore(flags);
> >>> I don't think this method is better than the original one. They are just
> >>> equivalent. 
> >> No, you changed usage of .finished, and transfer the functionality of the
> >> flag to newly introduced MCJ_LOADED.
> >> We can keep .finished as is, and introduce one new flag for this.
> > 
> > You just use .finished as MCJ_LOADED and mce_fake_in_progress
> > as .finished.
> 
> I just recommends you to keep .finished as a flag indicates "loading finished."

.finished can be "injecting finished, ready to be consumed". So I don't
think there is much difference.

> > Use a per-CPU variable mce_fake_in_progress make it hard to add support
> > to inject multiple MCEs in one CPU.
> 
> Why?  I think it can with such per-cpu flag.

Oh. It works too.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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