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Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 13:24:50 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Tony Luck <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     tony.luck@...el.com, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ashok.raj@...el.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, bp@...e.de, tglx@...utronix.de,
        qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com
Subject: [tip:ras/urgent] x86/mce: Improve error message when kernel cannot
 recover

Commit-ID:  c7d606f560e4c698884697fef503e4abacdd8c25
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/c7d606f560e4c698884697fef503e4abacdd8c25
Author:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 25 May 2018 14:41:39 -0700
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 22:22:12 +0200

x86/mce: Improve error message when kernel cannot recover

Since we added support to add recovery from some errors inside the kernel in:

commit b2f9d678e28c ("x86/mce: Check for faults tagged in EXTABLE_CLASS_FAULT exception table entries")

we have done a less than stellar job at reporting the cause of recoverable
machine checks that occur in other parts of the kernel. The user just gets
the unhelpful message:

	mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Action required: unknown MCACOD

doubly unhelpful when they check the manual for the reported IA32_MSR_STATUS.MCACOD
and see that it is listed as one of the standard recoverable values.

Add an extra rule to the MCE severity table to catch this case and report it
as:

	mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Data load in unrecoverable area of kernel

Fixes: b2f9d678e28c ("x86/mce: Check for faults tagged in EXTABLE_CLASS_FAULT exception table entries")
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@...el.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 4.6+
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4cc7c465150a9a48b8b9f45d0b840278e77eb9b5.1527283897.git.tony.luck@intel.com

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
index 5bbd06f38ff6..f34d89c01edc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
@@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ static struct severity {
 		SER, MASK(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|MCACOD, MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|MCACOD_INSTR),
 		USER
 		),
+	MCESEV(
+		PANIC, "Data load in unrecoverable area of kernel",
+		SER, MASK(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|MCACOD, MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|MCACOD_DATA),
+		KERNEL
+		),
 #endif
 	MCESEV(
 		PANIC, "Action required: unknown MCACOD",