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authorVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>2018-10-25 18:37:28 -0600
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2018-11-06 19:13:10 +0100
commit5d96c9342c23ee1d084802dcf064caa67ecaa45b (patch)
treee9313c61b24b8a449ca7eb7f7f16c9d620a1f0a4 /arch
parent437e88ab8f9e2ad90576ab74c4cf8f527bbf51cd (diff)
acpi/nfit, x86/mce: Handle only uncorrectable machine checks
The MCE handler for nfit devices is called for memory errors on a Non-Volatile DIMM and adds the error location to a 'badblocks' list. This list is used by the various NVDIMM drivers to avoid consuming known poison locations during IO. The MCE handler gets called for both corrected and uncorrectable errors. Until now, both kinds of errors have been added to the badblocks list. However, corrected memory errors indicate that the problem has already been fixed by hardware, and the resulting interrupt is merely a notification to Linux. As far as future accesses to that location are concerned, it is perfectly fine to use, and thus doesn't need to be included in the above badblocks list. Add a check in the nfit MCE handler to filter out corrected mce events, and only process uncorrectable errors. Fixes: 6839a6d96f4e ("nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error") Reported-by: Omar Avelar <omar.avelar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> CC: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> CC: elliott@hpe.com CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> CC: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org> CC: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org CC: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com> CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> CC: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> CC: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> CC: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org> CC: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181026003729.8420-1-vishal.l.verma@intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index 4da9b1c58d28..dbd9fe2f6163 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static inline void mce_hygon_feature_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { return mce_am
int mce_available(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
bool mce_is_memory_error(struct mce *m);
+bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned, mce_exception_count);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned, mce_poll_count);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 8c66d2fc8f81..77527b8ea982 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ bool mce_is_memory_error(struct mce *m)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mce_is_memory_error);
-static bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m)
+bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m)
{
if (m->cpuvendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD && m->status & MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED)
return false;
@@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ static bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m)
return true;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mce_is_correctable);
static bool cec_add_mce(struct mce *m)
{