linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] x86: mce: kexec: switch MCE handler for kexec/kdump

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Message-ID: <20150306082846.GC3514@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:28:46 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>,
	Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] x86: mce: kexec: switch MCE handler for kexec/kdump

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:37:52AM +0000, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> print_mce() doesn't help?

No, it doesn't because it does a bunch of MCA-specific things too.

> Currently quirk_no_way_out() is set only for a specific CPU model, so even
> if we define another callback for kdump code, setting it to a real function
> need to be done in MCE internal function, __mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks() ?
> 
> It seems that in this version I relied on reusing exisiting code too much.
> So I'll do only what I really need. Then, if the model specific behavior
> (what quirk_sandybridge_ifu() does) doesn't affect machine_check_under_kdump()'s
> behavior, simply stop copying this part is a right thing to do?

Just add this to mce.c in a pre-patch:

void mce_mc_callback(void *arg)
{
	if (quirk_no_way_out)
		quirk_no_way_out(i, m, regs);
}

I'm still not madly in love with it but I can't think of something
better. Maybe Tony would have a better idea...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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