linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once nmi_shootdown

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Message-ID: <58AC3481.80000@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 20:37:21 +0800
From:   Xunlei Pang <xpang@...hat.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...hat.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
        Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>,
        Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@...jp.nec.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mce: Don't participate in rendezvous process once
 nmi_shootdown_cpus() was made

On 02/20/2017 at 07:09 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 02:10:37PM +0800, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>> @@ -1128,8 +1129,9 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
>>  	 */
>>  	int lmce = 1;
>>  
>> -	/* If this CPU is offline, just bail out. */
>> -	if (cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())) {
>> +	/* If nmi shootdown happened or this CPU is offline, just bail out. */
>> +	if (cpus_shotdown() ||
> I don't like "cpus_shotdown" - it doesn't hint at all that this is
> special-handling crash/kdump.
>
> And more importantly, I want it to be obvious that we do let the
> crashing CPU into the MCE handler.

Hi Boris,

I made some improvements, what do you think the following one?
If you think it is fine, I can send out v3. Thanks for your time!

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h    |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 11 +++++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c         |  5 +++--
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h
index 2cb1cc2..fc62ba8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct machine_ops {
 };
 
 extern struct machine_ops machine_ops;
+extern int crashing_cpu;
 
 void native_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs);
 void native_machine_shutdown(void);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 8e9725c..7f53145 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/mce.h>
 #include <asm/msr.h>
+#include <asm/reboot.h>
 
 #include "mce-internal.h"
 
@@ -1128,8 +1129,14 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
      */
     int lmce = 1;
 
-    /* If this CPU is offline, just bail out. */
-    if (cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())) {
+    /*
+     * Cases to bail out to avoid rendezvous process timeout:
+     * 1)If crashing_cpu was set, e.g. entering kdump,
+     *   we need to skip cpus remaining in 1st kernel.
+     * 2)If this CPU is offline.
+     */
+    if (crashing_cpu != -1 ||
+        cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())) {
         u64 mcgstatus;
 
         mcgstatus = mce_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
index e244c19..92ecf4b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -749,10 +749,11 @@ void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
 #endif
 
 
+/* This keeps a track of which one is crashing cpu. */
+int crashing_cpu = -1;
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
 
-/* This keeps a track of which one is crashing cpu. */
-static int crashing_cpu;
 static nmi_shootdown_cb shootdown_callback;
 
 static atomic_t waiting_for_crash_ipi;
-- 
1.8.3.1