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    x86, mce: support action-optional machine checks · 9b1beaf2
    Andi Kleen 提交于
    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: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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