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authorBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2011-04-20 12:23:49 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-04-21 11:35:10 +0200
commitdffa4b2f62ff28c982144c7033001b1ece4d3532 (patch)
tree6f8fd2c07121621a341c24f4ca83b1f58cfad2c1
parent7b70bd3441437b7bc04fc9d321e17c8ed0e8f958 (diff)
x86, mce: Drop the default decoding notifier
The default notifier doesn't make a lot of sense to call in the correctable errors case. Drop it and emit the mcelog decoding hint only in the uncorrectable errors case and when no notifier is registered. Also, limit issuing the "mcelog --ascii" message in the rare case when we dump unreported CEs before panicking. While at it, remove unused old x86_mce_decode_callback from the header. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Nagananda Chumbalkar <Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110420102349.GB1361@aftab Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c24
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index eb16e94ae04..021979a6e23 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ static inline void winchip_mcheck_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) {}
static inline void enable_p5_mce(void) {}
#endif
-extern void (*x86_mce_decode_callback)(struct mce *m);
-
void mce_setup(struct mce *m);
void mce_log(struct mce *m);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sys_device, mce_dev);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 68e230327d6..ff1ae9b6464 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -105,20 +105,6 @@ static int cpu_missing;
ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(x86_mce_decoder_chain);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(x86_mce_decoder_chain);
-static int default_decode_mce(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
- void *data)
-{
- pr_emerg(HW_ERR "No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.\n");
- pr_emerg(HW_ERR "Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.\n");
-
- return NOTIFY_STOP;
-}
-
-static struct notifier_block mce_dec_nb = {
- .notifier_call = default_decode_mce,
- .priority = -1,
-};
-
/* MCA banks polled by the period polling timer for corrected events */
DEFINE_PER_CPU(mce_banks_t, mce_poll_banks) = {
[0 ... BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NR_BANKS)-1] = ~0UL
@@ -212,6 +198,8 @@ void mce_log(struct mce *mce)
static void print_mce(struct mce *m)
{
+ int ret = 0;
+
pr_emerg(HW_ERR "CPU %d: Machine Check Exception: %Lx Bank %d: %016Lx\n",
m->extcpu, m->mcgstatus, m->bank, m->status);
@@ -239,7 +227,11 @@ static void print_mce(struct mce *m)
* Print out human-readable details about the MCE error,
* (if the CPU has an implementation for that)
*/
- atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
+ ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
+ if (ret == NOTIFY_STOP)
+ return;
+
+ pr_emerg_ratelimited(HW_ERR "Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii'\n");
}
#define PANIC_TIMEOUT 5 /* 5 seconds */
@@ -1721,8 +1713,6 @@ __setup("mce", mcheck_enable);
int __init mcheck_init(void)
{
- atomic_notifier_chain_register(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, &mce_dec_nb);
-
mcheck_intel_therm_init();
return 0;