Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Enable HSD131, HSM142, HSW131, BDM48, and HSM142

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Thu Feb 06 2020 - 07:53:49 EST




On 2/6/20 6:10 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 07:58:31AM -0500, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Enable HSD131, HSM142, HSW131, BDM48, and HSM142
>
> That subject is unreadable for humans.

Yeah :/ I couldn't think of a better one. Maybe "Block spurious corrected
errors on some Intel processors"? Any other suggestion?

>
>> Intel Errata HSD131, HSM142, HSW131, and BDM48 report that
>> "spurious corrected errors may be logged in the IA32_MC0_STATUS register
>> with the valid field (bit 63) set, the uncorrected error field (bit 61)
>> not set, a Model Specific Error Code (bits [31:16]) of 0x000F, and
>> an MCA Error Code (bits [15:0]) of 0x0005."
>>
>> Block these spurious errors from the console and logs.
>
> Are they being hit in the wild or why do we need this?

Alexander, cc'd, is being hit by this in the wild.

>
>> Links to Intel Specification updates:
>> HSD131: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/core/4th-gen-core-family-desktop-specification-update.html
>> HSM142: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/core/4th-gen-core-family-mobile-specification-update.html
>> HSW131: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-e3-1200v3-spec-update.html
>> BDM48: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/core/5th-gen-core-family-spec-update.html
>
> Those links tend to get stale with time. If you really want to refer to
> the PDFs, add a new bugzilla entry on https://bugzilla.kernel.org/, add
> them there as an attachment and add the link to the entry to the commit
> message.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Krupp <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> What's that Signed-off-by: tag supposed to mean?
>
>> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> If at all, this should be done by adding an intel_filter_mce() function
> and called from filter_mce() so that such errors don't get logged.

I'll take a look over there.

P.

>
> Thx.
>