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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-06-26 10:53:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-06-26 10:53:45 +0200 |
| commit | ca02c216742c9e6aa6c4dce31a0be417bc6685b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 7383e04dc0cf109f6b53ef0c9d0f0719128bbbbf /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck | |
| parent | d908e1ebbc66a4a44469f27dcfb1f2f46144c4bf (diff) | |
| parent | 0644414e62561f0ba1bea7c5ba6a94cc50dac3e3 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'please-pull-mce-bitmap-comment' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras into x86/ras
Pull MCE updates from Tony Luck:
"Better comments so we understand our existing machine check
bank bitmaps - prelude to adding another bitmap soon."
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c | 12 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index 9239504b41cb..bf49cdbb010f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -89,7 +89,10 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(mce_chrdev_wait); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mce, mces_seen); static int cpu_missing; -/* MCA banks polled by the period polling timer for corrected events */ +/* + * MCA banks polled by the period polling timer for corrected events. + * With Intel CMCI, this only has MCA banks which do not support CMCI (if any). + */ DEFINE_PER_CPU(mce_banks_t, mce_poll_banks) = { [0 ... BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NR_BANKS)-1] = ~0UL }; diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c index ae1697c2afe3..d56405309dc1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c @@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ * Also supports reliable discovery of shared banks. */ +/* + * CMCI can be delivered to multiple cpus that share a machine check bank + * so we need to designate a single cpu to process errors logged in each bank + * in the interrupt handler (otherwise we would have many races and potential + * double reporting of the same error). + * Note that this can change when a cpu is offlined or brought online since + * some MCA banks are shared across cpus. When a cpu is offlined, cmci_clear() + * disables CMCI on all banks owned by the cpu and clears this bitfield. At + * this point, cmci_rediscover() kicks in and a different cpu may end up + * taking ownership of some of the shared MCA banks that were previously + * owned by the offlined cpu. + */ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(mce_banks_t, mce_banks_owned); /* |