Re: [PATCH 5/5] mce: recover from "action required" errors reportedin data path in usermode

From: Chen Gong
Date: Wed Sep 07 2011 - 02:05:54 EST


ä 2011/9/1 6:26, Luck, Tony åé:
From: Tony Luck<tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

Two new entries in the mce severity table - one notes that data errors
observed by innocent bystanders (who happen to share a machine check
bank with the cpu experiencing the error) should be left alone by using
the "KEEP" severity.

Then inline in the do_machine_check() handler we process the user-mode
data error that was marked at MCE_AR_SEVERITY. Even though we are in
"machine check context" it is almost safe to do so. We have already
released all the other cpus from rendezvous and we know that the cpu
with the error was executing user code - so it cannot have interrupts
locked out, or hold any locks. I.e. this is almost equivalent to a
page fault. Only difference (and risk) is that on x86_64 we are still
on the machine check stack - so if another machine check arrives, we
are toast (we didn't clear MCG_STATUS - yet, so cpu will reset rather
than taking a nested machine check on the same stack).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck<tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Using the "KEEP" state avoids the complexity of my earlier solution
that sorted the cpus by severity and ran the more serious ones first.

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c | 14 ++++++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
index 7395d5f..c4d8b24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static struct severity {
#define MASK(x, y) .mask = x, .result = y
#define MCI_UC_S (MCI_STATUS_UC|MCI_STATUS_S)
#define MCI_UC_SAR (MCI_STATUS_UC|MCI_STATUS_S|MCI_STATUS_AR)
+#define MCI_ADDR (MCI_STATUS_ADDRV|MCI_STATUS_MISCV)
#define MCACOD 0xffff

MCESEV(
@@ -102,11 +103,22 @@ static struct severity {
SER, BITCLR(MCI_STATUS_S)
),

- /* AR add known MCACODs here */
MCESEV(
PANIC, "Action required with lost events",
SER, BITSET(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR)
),
+
+ /* known AR MCACODs: */
+ MCESEV(
+ KEEP, "HT thread notices Action required: data load error",
+ SER, MASK(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|MCACOD, MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|0x0134),
+ MCGMASK(MCG_STATUS_EIPV, 0)
+ ),
+ MCESEV(
+ AR, "Action required: data load error",
+ SER, MASK(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|MCACOD, MCI_UC_SAR|MCI_ADDR|0x0134),
+ USER
+ ),

I don't think *AR* makes sense here because the following codes have a assumption that it means *user space* condition. If so, in the future a new *AR* severity for kernel usage is created, we can't distinguish which one can call "memory_failure" as below. At least, it should have a suffix such as AR_USER/AR_KERN:

enum severity_level {
MCE_NO_SEVERITY,
MCE_KEEP_SEVERITY,
MCE_SOME_SEVERITY,
MCE_AO_SEVERITY,
MCE_UC_SEVERITY,
MCE_AR_USER_SEVERITY,
MCE_AR_KERN_SEVERITY,
MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY,
};


MCESEV(
PANIC, "Action required: unknown MCACOD",
SER, MASK(MCI_STATUS_OVER|MCI_UC_SAR, MCI_UC_SAR)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 135e12d..2c59a34 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -996,12 +996,6 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
continue;
}

- /*
- * Kill on action required.
- */
- if (severity == MCE_AR_SEVERITY)
- kill_it = 1;
-
mce_read_aux(&m, i);

/*
@@ -1022,6 +1016,8 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
}
}

+ m = *final;
+
if (!no_way_out)
mce_clear_state(toclear);

@@ -1040,7 +1036,7 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
* support MCE broadcasting or it has been disabled.
*/
if (no_way_out&& tolerant< 3)
- mce_panic("Fatal machine check on current CPU", final, msg);
+ mce_panic("Fatal machine check on current CPU",&m, msg);

/*
* If the error seems to be unrecoverable, something should be
@@ -1049,11 +1045,24 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
* high, don't try to do anything at all.
*/

- if (kill_it&& tolerant< 3)
+ if (worst != MCE_AR_SEVERITY&& kill_it&& tolerant< 3)
force_sig(SIGBUS, current);

if (worst> 0)
mce_report_event(regs);
+
+ if (worst == MCE_AR_SEVERITY) {
+ unsigned long pfn = m.addr>> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ pr_err("Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at %llx",
+ m.addr);

print in the MCE handler maybe makes a deadlock ? say, when other CPUs are printing something, suddently they received MCE broadcast from Monarch CPU, when Monarch CPU runs above codes, a deadlock happens ?
Please fix me if I miss something :-)

+ if (__memory_failure(pfn, MCE_VECTOR, 0)< 0) {
+ pr_err("Memory error not recovered");
+ force_sig(SIGBUS, current);
+ } else
+ pr_err("Memory error recovered");
+ }

as you mentioned in the comment, the biggest concern is that when __memory_failure runs too long, if another MCE happens at the same time, (assuming this MCE is happened on its sibling CPU which has the same banks), the 2nd MCE will crash the system. Why not delaying the process in a safer context, such as using user_return_notifer ?

+
mce_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS, 0);
out:
atomic_dec(&mce_entry);
@@ -1061,12 +1070,18 @@ out:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_machine_check);

-/* dummy to break dependency. actual code is in mm/memory-failure.c */
-void __attribute__((weak)) memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int vector)
+#ifndef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
+void memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int vector)
{
pr_err("Action optional memory failure at %lx ignored\n", pfn);
}

+int __memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags)
+{
+ return -ENXIO;
+}
+#endif
+
static void mce_process_work(struct work_struct *dummy)
{
unsigned long pfn;

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