linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/9] mce recovery for Sandy Bridge server

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Date:	Wed, 25 May 2011 12:02:01 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/9] mce recovery for Sandy Bridge server

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 02:48:30PM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:

> But the case when I'd want to do the "stop this task" thing is when I
> think that I can recover - for memory errors detected while in kernel
> code I expect this will only ever be a few special cases:
> 1) copy to/from user
> 2) copy page (for copy-on-write fault)
> 3) ...
> and in these cases we don't have interrupts disabled.  In fact I have
> difficulty imagining a scenario where the kernel trips over a memory
> error in interrupt disabled code that would ever be recoverable.

Perf itself has a copy_from_user_nmi which is used to collect stack
traces. But those non-preemptible user accesses can be moved out of
your special cases.

	Joerg

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