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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] x86/mce: retrieve poison range from hardware
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On 7/27/2022 12:24 PM, Jane Chu wrote:
> On 7/27/2022 11:56 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
>> Jane Chu wrote:
>>> With Commit 7917f9cdb503 ("acpi/nfit: rely on mce->misc to determine
>>> poison granularity") that changed nfit_handle_mce() callback to report
>>> badrange according to 1ULL << MCI_MISC_ADDR_LSB(mce->misc), it's been
>>> discovered that the mce->misc LSB field is 0x1000 bytes, hence injecting
>>> 2 back-to-back poisons and the driver ends up logging 8 badblocks,
>>> because 0x1000 bytes is 8 512-byte.
>>>
>>> Dan Williams noticed that apei_mce_report_mem_error() hardcode
>>> the LSB field to PAGE_SHIFT instead of consulting the input
>>> struct cper_sec_mem_err record.  So change to rely on hardware whenever
>>> support is available.
>>>
>>> Link:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/r/7ed50fd8-521e-cade-77b1-738b8bfb8502@oracle.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
>>>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c
>>> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c
>>> index 717192915f28..26d63818b2de 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c
>>> @@ -29,15 +29,27 @@
>>>   void apei_mce_report_mem_error(int severity, struct
>>> cper_sec_mem_err *mem_err)
>>>   {
>>>       struct mce m;
>>> +    int grain = PAGE_SHIFT;
>>>       if (!(mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA))
>>>           return;
>>> +    /*
>>> +     * Even if the ->validation_bits are set for address mask,
>>> +     * to be extra safe, check and reject an error radius '0',
>>> +     * and fallback to the default page size.
>>> +     */
>>> +    if (mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA_MASK) {
>>> +        grain = ~mem_err->physical_addr_mask + 1;
>>> +        if (grain == 1)
>>> +            grain = PAGE_SHIFT;
>>
>> Wait, if @grain is the number of bits to mask off the address, shouldn't
>> this be something like:
>>
>>      grain = min_not_zero(PAGE_SHIFT,
>> hweight64(~mem_err->physical_addr_mask));
>
> I see. I guess what you meant is
>    grain = min(PAGE_SHIFT, (1 + hweight64(~mem_err->physical_addr_mask)));

Sorry, take that back, it won't work either.

-jane

> so that in the pmem poison case, 'grain' would be 8, not 7.
>
> thanks,
> -jane
>
>>
>> ...?
>

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