linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 08/10] NOTIFIER: Take over TIF_MCE_NOTIFY and implement task return notifier

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:13:02 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 08/10] NOTIFIER: Take over TIF_MCE_NOTIFY and implement
 task return notifier

>Since we can't have nested #MC (due to the IST mechanism resetting %rsp 
>and clobbering the previous invocation's stack), we have to clear MCIP 
>outside the #MC handler.  And that means irq_work_queue()
>
>(note that this changes the behaviour from memory corruption to shutdown 
>state; both suck, but one more than the other).

Hmm. We currently clear MCIP inside the handler (at the very end, but
still inside).  Deferring clearing would make sense - but we'd have to
be sure to do so a.s.a.p on all processors.  It also would change how
we look at the possibility of a process being able to run and re-execute
an instruction that causes a machine check. If we defer clearing MCIP
this won't just be annoying, it will be fatal (if any cpu hasn't yet
got to the work queue to clear MCIP).

-Tony
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