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2009-06-11x86, mce: Add boot options for corrected errorsHidetoshi Seto
This patch introduces three boot options (no_cmci, dont_log_ce and ignore_ce) to control handling for corrected errors. The "mce=no_cmci" boot option disables the CMCI feature. Since CMCI is a new feature so having boot controls to disable it will be a help if the hardware is misbehaving. The "mce=dont_log_ce" boot option disables logging for corrected errors. All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently. This option will be useful if you never care about corrected errors. The "mce=ignore_ce" boot option disables features for corrected errors, i.e. polling timer and cmci. All corrected events are not cleared and kept in bank MSRs. Usually this disablement is not recommended, however it will be a help if there are some conflict with the BIOS or hardware monitoring applications etc., that clears corrected events in banks instead of OS. [ And trivial cleanup (space -> tab) for doc is included. ] Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4A30ACDF.5030408@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-03x86, mce: support action-optional machine checksAndi Kleen
Newer Intel CPUs support a new class of machine checks called recoverable action optional. Action Optional means that the CPU detected some form of corruption in the background and tells the OS about using a machine check exception. The OS can then take appropiate action, like killing the process with the corrupted data or logging the event properly to disk. This is done by the new generic high level memory failure handler added in a earlier patch. The high level handler takes the address with the failed memory and does the appropiate action, like killing the process. In this version of the patch the high level handler is stubbed out with a weak function to not create a direct dependency on the hwpoison branch. The high level handler cannot be directly called from the machine check exception though, because it has to run in a defined process context to be able to sleep when taking VM locks (it is not expected to sleep for a long time, just do so in some exceptional cases like lock contention) Thus the MCE handler has to queue a work item for process context, trigger process context and then call the high level handler from there. This patch adds two path to process context: through a per thread kernel exit notify_user() callback or through a high priority work item. The first runs when the process exits back to user space, the other when it goes to sleep and there is no higher priority process. The machine check handler will schedule both, and whoever runs first will grab the event. This is done because quick reaction to this event is critical to avoid a potential more fatal machine check when the corruption is consumed. There is a simple lock less ring buffer to queue the corrupted addresses between the exception handler and the process context handler. Then in process context it just calls the high level VM code with the corrupted PFNs. The code adds the required code to extract the failed address from the CPU's machine check registers. It doesn't try to handle all possible cases -- the specification has 6 different ways to specify memory address -- but only the linear address. Most of the required checking has been already done earlier in the mce_severity rule checking engine. Following the Intel recommendations Action Optional errors are only enabled for known situations (encoded in MCACODs). The errors are ignored otherwise, because they are action optional. v2: Improve comment, disable preemption while processing ring buffer (reported by Ying Huang) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03x86, mce: rename mce_notify_user to mce_notify_irqAndi Kleen
Rename the mce_notify_user function to mce_notify_irq. The next patch will split the wakeup handling of interrupt context and of process context and it's better to give it a clearer name for this. Contains a fix from Ying Huang [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03x86, mce: implement new status bitsAndi Kleen
The x86 architecture recently added some new machine check status bits: S(ignalled) and AR (Action-Required). Signalled allows to check if a specific event caused an exception or was just logged through CMCI. AR allows the kernel to decide if an event needs immediate action or can be delayed or ignored. Implement support for these new status bits. mce_severity() uses the new bits to grade the machine check correctly and decide what to do. The exception handler uses AR to decide to kill or not. The S bit is used to separate events between the poll/CMCI handler and the exception handler. Classical UC always leads to panic. That was true before anyways because the existing CPUs always passed a PCC with it. Also corrects the rules whether to kill in user or kernel context and how to handle missing RIPV. The machine check handler largely uses the mce-severity grading engine now instead of making its own decisions. This means the logic is centralized in one place. This is useful because it has to be evaluated multiple times. v2: Some rule fixes; Add AO events Fix RIPV, RIPV|EIPV order (Ying Huang) Fix UCNA with AR=1 message (Ying Huang) Add comment about panicing in m_c_p. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03x86, mce: extend struct mce user interface with more information.Andi Kleen
Experience has shown that struct mce which is used to pass an machine check to the user space daemon currently a few limitations. Also some data which is useful to print at panic level is also missing. This patch addresses most of them. The same information is also printed out together with mce panic. struct mce can be painlessly extended in a compatible way, the mcelog user space code just ignores additional fields with a warning. - It doesn't provide a wall time timestamp. There have been a few complaints about that. Fix that by adding a 64bit time_t - It doesn't provide the exact CPU identification. This makes it awkward for mcelog to decode the event correctly, especially when there are variations in the supported MCE codes on different CPU models or when mcelog is running on a different host after a panic. Previously the administrator had to specify the correct CPU when mcelog ran on a different host, but with the more variation in machine checks now it's better to auto detect that. It's also useful for more detailed analysis of CPU events. Pass CPUID 1.EAX and the cpu vendor (as encoded in processor.h) instead. - Socket ID and initial APIC ID are useful to report because they allow to identify the failing CPU in some (not all) cases. This is also especially useful for the panic situation. This addresses one of the complaints from Thomas Gleixner earlier. - The MCG capabilities MSR needs to be reported for some advanced error processing in mcelog Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03x86, mce: support more than 256 CPUs in struct mceAndi Kleen
The old struct mce had a limitation to 256 CPUs. But x86 Linux supports more than that now with x2apic. Add a new field extcpu to report the extended number. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03x86, mce: store record length into memory struct mce anchorAndi Kleen
This makes it easier for tools who want to extract the mcelog out of crash images or memory dumps to adapt to changing struct mce size. The length field replaces padding, so it's fully compatible. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03x86, mce: add MCE poll count to /proc/interruptsAndi Kleen
Keep a count of the machine check polls (or CMCI events) in /proc/interrupts. Andi needs this for debugging, but it's also useful in general to see what's going in by the kernel. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03x86, mce: add machine check exception count in /proc/interruptsAndi Kleen
Useful for debugging, but it's also good general policy to have a counter for all special interrupts there. This makes it easier to diagnose where a CPU is spending its time. [ Impact: feature, debugging tool ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28x86, mce: drop "extern" from function prototypes in asm/mce.hH. Peter Anvin
Function prototypes don't need to be prefixed by "extern". [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28x86, mce: add basic error injection infrastructureAndi Kleen
Allow user programs to write mce records into /dev/mcelog. When they do that a fake machine check is triggered to test the machine check code. This uses the MCE MSR wrappers added earlier. The implementation is straight forward. There is a struct mce record per CPU and the MCE MSR accesses get data from there if there is valid data injected there. This allows to test the machine check code relatively realistically because only the lowest layer of hardware access is intercepted. The test suite and injector are available at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-inject.git Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28x86, mce: rename 64bit mce_dont_init to mce_disabledAndi Kleen
Give it the same name as on 32bit. This makes further merging easier. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28x86, mce: Cleanup MCG definitionsThomas Gleixner
Decode more magic constants and turn them into symbols. [ Sort definitions bitwise, introduce MCG_EXT_CNT - HS ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28x86, mce: Rename sysfs variablesIngo Molnar
Shorten variable names. This also compacts the code a bit. device_mce => mce_dev mce_device_initialized => mce_dev_initialized mce_attribute => mce_attrs [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28x86, mce: unify, prepare 64bit in mce.hIngo Molnar
Prepare mce.h for unification, so that it will build on 32-bit x86 kernels too. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-04-22x86, mce: fix boot logging logicAndi Kleen
The earlier patch to change the poller to a separate function subtly broke the boot logging logic. This could lead to machine checks getting logged at boot even when disabled or defaulting to off on some systems. Fix that. [ Impact: bug fix - avoid spurious MCE in log ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-24x86, mce, cmci: add CMCI supportAndi Kleen
Impact: Major new feature Intel CMCI (Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) is a new feature on Nehalem CPUs. It allows the CPU to trigger interrupts on corrected events, which allows faster reaction to them instead of with the traditional polling timer. Also use CMCI to discover shared banks. Machine check banks can be shared by CPU threads or even cores. Using the CMCI enable bit it is possible to detect the fact that another CPU already saw a specific bank. Use this to assign shared banks only to one CPU to avoid reporting duplicated events. On CPU hot unplug bank sharing is re discovered. This is done using a thread that cycles through all the CPUs. To avoid races between the poller and CMCI we only poll for banks that are not CMCI capable and only check CMCI owned banks on a interrupt. The shared banks ownership information is currently only used for CMCI interrupts, not polled banks. The sharing discovery code follows the algorithm recommended in the IA32 SDM Vol3a 14.5.2.1 The CMCI interrupt handler just calls the machine check poller to pick up the machine check event that caused the interrupt. I decided not to implement a separate threshold event like the AMD version has, because the threshold is always one currently and adding another event didn't seem to add any value. Some code inspired by Yunhong Jiang's Xen implementation, which was in term inspired by a earlier CMCI implementation by me. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-24x86, mce, cmci: define MSR names and fields for new CMCI registersAndi Kleen
Impact: New register definitions only CMCI means support for raising an interrupt on a corrected machine check event instead of having to poll for it. It's a new feature in Intel Nehalem CPUs available on some machine check banks. For details see the IA32 SDM Vol3a 14.5 Define the registers for it as a preparation for further patches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-24x86, mce, cmci: use polled banks bitmap in machine check pollerAndi Kleen
Define a per cpu bitmap that contains the banks polled by the machine check poller. This is needed for the CMCI code in the next patches to be able to disable polling on specific banks. The bank by default contains all banks, so there is no behaviour change. Only future code will remove some banks from the polling set. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-24x86, mce, cmci: factor out threshold interrupt handlerAndi Kleen
Impact: cleanup; preparation for feature The mce_amd_64 code has an own private MC threshold vector with an own interrupt handler. Since Intel needs a similar handler it makes sense to share the vector because both can not be active at the same time. I factored the common APIC handler code into a separate file which can be used by both the Intel or AMD MC code. This is needed for the next patch which adds an Intel specific CMCI handler. This patch should be a nop for AMD, it just moves some code around. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-24x86, mce, cmci: export MAX_NR_BANKSAndi Kleen
Impact: Cleanup (code movement) Move MAX_NR_BANKS into mce.h because it's needed there for followup patches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-19x86, mce: separate correct machine check poller and fatal exception handlerAndi Kleen
Impact: cleanup, performance enhancement The machine check poller is diverging more and more from the fatal exception handler. Instead of adding more special cases separate the code paths completely. The corrected poll path is actually quite simple, and this doesn't result in much code duplication. This makes both handlers much easier to read and results in cleaner code flow. The exception handler now only needs to care about uncorrected errors, which also simplifies the handling of multiple errors. The corrected poller also now always runs in standard interrupt context and does not need to do anything special to handle NMI context. Minor behaviour changes: - MCG status is now not cleared on polling. - Only the banks which had corrected errors get cleared on polling - The exception handler only clears banks with errors now v2: Forward port to new patch order. Add "uc" argument. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-19x86, mce: factor out duplicated struct mce setup into one functionAndi Kleen
Impact: cleanup This merely factors out duplicated code to set up the initial struct mce state into a single function. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-17x86, mce: don't disable machine checks during code patchingAndi Kleen
Impact: low priority bug fix This removes part of a a patch I added myself some time ago. After some consideration the patch was a bad idea. In particular it stopped machine check exceptions during code patching. To quote the comment: * MCEs only happen when something got corrupted and in this * case we must do something about the corruption. * Ignoring it is worse than a unlikely patching race. * Also machine checks tend to be broadcast and if one CPU * goes into machine check the others follow quickly, so we don't * expect a machine check to cause undue problems during to code * patching. So undo the machine check related parts of 8f4e956b313dcccbc7be6f10808952345e3b638c NMIs are still disabled. This only removes code, the only additions are a new comment. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-31headers_check fix: x86, mce.hJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make headers_check' warnings: usr/include/asm/mce.h:7: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h> usr/include/asm/mce.h:29: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
2008-10-22x86: Fix ASM_X86__ header guardsH. Peter Anvin
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since: a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless. b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-10-22x86, um: ... and asm-x86 moveAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>