linux-kernel - [PATCH -v3] x86, MCE: Drop the default decoding notifier

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Message-ID: <20110414150036.GG10080@aftab>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:00:36 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	"dzickus@...hat.com" <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	"mstowe@...hat.com" <mstowe@...hat.com>,
	"dnelson@...hat.com" <dnelson@...hat.com>,
	"rja@...ricas.sgi.com" <rja@...ricas.sgi.com>
Subject: [PATCH -v3] x86, MCE: Drop the default decoding notifier

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:37:05PM -0400, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> In the worst case, we will report 32 CEs before panicking. For that case
> we either do printk_once as Tony suggested or we ratelimit it. I'll
> update the patch.

Ok, how about the following, I ratelimit the printk to the default of 10
messages per 5 seconds. I've also got the hardware MCE injection patches
ready and will do some testing with them.

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From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:32:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH -v3] x86, MCE: Drop the default decoding notifier

The default notifier doesn't make a lot of sense to call in the
correctable errors case. Drop it and emit the mcelog decoding hint only
in the uncorrectable errors case and when no notifier is registered.
Also, limit the issual of the "mcelog" message in the remote case when
we dump unreported CEs before panicking.

While at it, remove unused old x86_mce_decode_callback from the header.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h       |    2 --
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c |   23 ++++++-----------------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index eb16e94..021979a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ static inline void winchip_mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) {}
 static inline void enable_p5_mce(void) {}
 #endif
 
-extern void (*x86_mce_decode_callback)(struct mce *m);
-
 void mce_setup(struct mce *m);
 void mce_log(struct mce *m);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sys_device, mce_dev);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 68e2303..679bd9e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -105,20 +105,6 @@ static int			cpu_missing;
 ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(x86_mce_decoder_chain);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_mce_decoder_chain);
 
-static int default_decode_mce(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
-			       void *data)
-{
-	pr_emerg(HW_ERR "No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.\n");
-	pr_emerg(HW_ERR "Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.\n");
-
-	return NOTIFY_STOP;
-}
-
-static struct notifier_block mce_dec_nb = {
-	.notifier_call = default_decode_mce,
-	.priority      = -1,
-};
-
 /* MCA banks polled by the period polling timer for corrected events */
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(mce_banks_t, mce_poll_banks) = {
 	[0 ... BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NR_BANKS)-1] = ~0UL
@@ -212,6 +198,8 @@ void mce_log(struct mce *mce)
 
 static void print_mce(struct mce *m)
 {
+	int ret = 0;
+
 	pr_emerg(HW_ERR "CPU %d: Machine Check Exception: %Lx Bank %d: %016Lx\n",
 	       m->extcpu, m->mcgstatus, m->bank, m->status);
 
@@ -239,7 +227,10 @@ static void print_mce(struct mce *m)
 	 * Print out human-readable details about the MCE error,
 	 * (if the CPU has an implementation for that)
 	 */
-	atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
+	ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
+	if (ret != NOTIFY_STOP)
+		printk_ratelimited(KERN_EMERG HW_ERR
+				   "Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii'\n");
 }
 
 #define PANIC_TIMEOUT 5 /* 5 seconds */
@@ -1721,8 +1712,6 @@ __setup("mce", mcheck_enable);
 
 int __init mcheck_init(void)
 {
-	atomic_notifier_chain_register(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, &mce_dec_nb);
-
 	mcheck_intel_therm_init();
 
 	return 0;
-- 
1.7.4.rc2



-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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