linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Dynamically size space for machine check records

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Date: Thu,  7 Mar 2024 11:27:04 -0800
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: "Naik, Avadhut" <avadnaik@....com>,
	"Mehta, Sohil" <sohil.mehta@...el.com>,
	"Yazen Ghannam" <yazen.ghannam@....com>,
	x86@...nel.org,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Dynamically size space for machine check records

Systems with a large number of CPUs may generate a large
number of machine check records when things go seriously
wrong. But Linux has a fixed buffer that can only capture
a few dozen errors.

Allocate space based on the number of CPUs (with a minimum
value based on the historical fixed buffer that could store
80 records).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>
---

Changes since V2; Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240307000256.34352-1-tony.luck@intel.com/

Boris: Eliminate "out:" label in mce_gen_pool_create()

Sohil: Added Reviewed-by tag

 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/genpool.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/genpool.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/genpool.c
index fbe8b61c3413..cadf28662a70 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/genpool.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/genpool.c
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@
  * used to save error information organized in a lock-less list.
  *
  * This memory pool is only to be used to save MCE records in MCE context.
- * MCE events are rare, so a fixed size memory pool should be enough. Use
- * 2 pages to save MCE events for now (~80 MCE records at most).
+ * MCE events are rare, so a fixed size memory pool should be enough.
+ * Allocate on a sliding scale based on number of CPUs.
  */
-#define MCE_POOLSZ	(2 * PAGE_SIZE)
+#define MCE_MIN_ENTRIES	80
+#define MCE_PER_CPU	2
 
 static struct gen_pool *mce_evt_pool;
 static LLIST_HEAD(mce_event_llist);
-static char gen_pool_buf[MCE_POOLSZ];
 
 /*
  * Compare the record "t" with each of the records on list "l" to see if
@@ -118,22 +118,32 @@ int mce_gen_pool_add(struct mce *mce)
 
 static int mce_gen_pool_create(void)
 {
+	int mce_numrecords, mce_poolsz, order;
 	struct gen_pool *tmpp;
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
+	void *mce_pool;
 
-	tmpp = gen_pool_create(ilog2(sizeof(struct mce_evt_llist)), -1);
+	order = order_base_2(sizeof(struct mce_evt_llist));
+	tmpp = gen_pool_create(order, -1);
 	if (!tmpp)
-		goto out;
+		return ret;
 
-	ret = gen_pool_add(tmpp, (unsigned long)gen_pool_buf, MCE_POOLSZ, -1);
+	mce_numrecords = max(MCE_MIN_ENTRIES, num_possible_cpus() * MCE_PER_CPU);
+	mce_poolsz = mce_numrecords * (1 << order);
+	mce_pool = kmalloc(mce_poolsz, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!mce_pool) {
+		gen_pool_destroy(tmpp);
+		return ret;
+	}
+	ret = gen_pool_add(tmpp, (unsigned long)mce_pool, mce_poolsz, -1);
 	if (ret) {
 		gen_pool_destroy(tmpp);
-		goto out;
+		kfree(mce_pool);
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	mce_evt_pool = tmpp;
 
-out:
 	return ret;
 }
 

base-commit: d206a76d7d2726f3b096037f2079ce0bd3ba329b
-- 
2.43.0