linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] x86, mce: use mce_usable_address() for UCNA memory error recovery

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Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 2015 18:11:28 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Chen Yucong <slaoub@...il.com>
CC:	"bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>,
	"linux-edac@...r.kernel.org" <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86, mce: use mce_usable_address() for UCNA memory
 error recovery

> The IA32_MCi_ADDR MSR contains the address of the code or data memory
> location that produced the machine-check error. The IA32_MCi_ADDR
> register is either not implemented or contains no address if the ADDRV
> flag in the IA32_MCi_STATUS register is clear. The address returned is
> an offset into a segment, linear address, physical address, or memory
> address. This depends on the error encountered.
>                                          -- Intel SDM Volume 3B

But SDM also says:

If both MISCV and IA32_MCG_CAP[24] are set, the IA32_MCi_MISC_MSR
is defined according to Figure 15-8 to support software recovery of
uncorrected errors (see Section 15.6):

So you should only look at the LSB/MODE bits in MCi_MISC on Intel processors
which have MCG_CAP[24] == 1 (handily saved in "mca_cfg.ser" in mce.c).

This was buried in the old code because the only caller of mce_usable_address() was:

	if (severity == MCE_AO_SEVERITY && mce_usable_address(&m))

and we can only have AO_SEVERITY set on systems with MCG_CAP[24]==1.

-Tony
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