linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 to use with legacy MSRs

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Message-ID: <20170329190608.n3tt252mwlfrl54s@pd.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:06:08 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
Cc:     linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce/AMD: Give a name to MCA bank 3 to use with
 legacy MSRs

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:18:05AM -0500, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
> 
> MCA bank 3 is reserved on systems pre-Fam17h, so it didn't have a name.
> However, MCA bank 3 is defined on Fam17h systems and can be accessed using
> legacy MSRs. Without a name we get a stack trace on Fam17h systems when
> trying to register sysfs files for bank 3 on kernels that don't recognize
> Scalable MCA.
> 
> Call MCA bank 3 "decode_unit" since this is what it represents on Fam17h.
> This will allow kernels without SMCA support to see this bank on Fam17h+
> and prevent the stack trace. This will not affect older systems since this
> bank is reserved on them, i.e. it'll be ignored.
> 
> Tested on AMD Fam15h and Fam17h systems.
> 
>  WARNING: CPU: 26 PID: 1 at lib/kobject.c:210 kobject_add_internal+0x23e/0x340()
>  kobject: (ffff88085bb256c0): attempted to be registered with empty name!
>  ...
>  Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff8138fc83>] dump_stack+0x63/0x90
>   [<ffffffff810769b6>] warn_slowpath_common+0x86/0xc0
>   [<ffffffff81076a3c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
>   [<ffffffff8139290e>] ? kobject_add_internal+0x18e/0x340
>   [<ffffffff81187f82>] ? kfree_const+0x22/0x30
>   [<ffffffff813929be>] kobject_add_internal+0x23e/0x340
>   [<ffffffff81187f82>] ? kfree_const+0x22/0x30
>   [<ffffffff81392cb8>] kobject_add+0x68/0xb0
>   [<ffffffff81392d33>] kobject_create_and_add+0x33/0x70
>   [<ffffffff81043c27>] threshold_create_device+0x107/0x350
>   [<ffffffff81d7e7aa>] ? mcheck_vendor_init_severity+0x1a/0x1a
>   [<ffffffff81d7e7df>] threshold_init_device+0x35/0x4d
>   [<ffffffff81002123>] do_one_initcall+0xb3/0x1d0
>   [<ffffffff81d6e0f0>] kernel_init_freeable+0x163/0x1f0
>   [<ffffffff8176e0f0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
>   [<ffffffff8176e0fe>] kernel_init+0xe/0xe0
>   [<ffffffff8177a7cf>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
>   [<ffffffff8176e0f0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 3.10..
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
> index d3e5be8..c82befc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static const char * const th_names[] = {
>  	"load_store",
>  	"insn_fetch",
>  	"combined_unit",
> -	"",
> +	"decode_unit",
>  	"northbridge",
>  	"execution_unit",
>  };
> -- 

Applied, thanks.

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    Boris.

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