[PATCH 4.9 022/241] x86/mce: Handle broadcasted MCE gracefully with kexec

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Mar 19 11:04:47 PDT 2018


4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Xunlei Pang <xlpang at redhat.com>


[ Upstream commit 5bc329503e8191c91c4c40836f062ef771d8ba83 ]

When we are about to kexec a crash kernel and right then and there a
broadcasted MCE fires while we're still in the first kernel and while
the other CPUs remain in a holding pattern, the #MC handler of the
first kernel will timeout and then panic due to never completing MCE
synchronization.

Handle this in a similar way as to when the CPUs are offlined when that
broadcasted MCE happens.

[ Boris: rewrote commit message and comments. ]

Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi at ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac at vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487857012-9059-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313095019.19351-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin at microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h    |    1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c         |    5 +++--
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct machine_ops {
 };
 
 extern struct machine_ops machine_ops;
+extern int crashing_cpu;
 
 void native_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs);
 void native_machine_shutdown(void);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/mce.h>
 #include <asm/msr.h>
+#include <asm/reboot.h>
 
 #include "mce-internal.h"
 
@@ -1081,9 +1082,22 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *re
 	 * on Intel.
 	 */
 	int lmce = 1;
+	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
-	/* If this CPU is offline, just bail out. */
-	if (cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())) {
+	/*
+	 * Cases where we avoid rendezvous handler timeout:
+	 * 1) If this CPU is offline.
+	 *
+	 * 2) If crashing_cpu was set, e.g. we're entering kdump and we need to
+	 *  skip those CPUs which remain looping in the 1st kernel - see
+	 *  crash_nmi_callback().
+	 *
+	 * Note: there still is a small window between kexec-ing and the new,
+	 * kdump kernel establishing a new #MC handler where a broadcasted MCE
+	 * might not get handled properly.
+	 */
+	if (cpu_is_offline(cpu) ||
+	    (crashing_cpu != -1 && crashing_cpu != cpu)) {
 		u64 mcgstatus;
 
 		mcgstatus = mce_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -769,10 +769,11 @@ void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_re
 #endif
 
 
+/* This is the CPU performing the emergency shutdown work. */
+int crashing_cpu = -1;
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
 
-/* This keeps a track of which one is crashing cpu. */
-static int crashing_cpu;
 static nmi_shootdown_cb shootdown_callback;
 
 static atomic_t waiting_for_crash_ipi;





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