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authorMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-01-21 09:52:27 +1100
committerEli Qiao <taget@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-01-22 10:26:23 +0800
commit84e2df8396b413091a736bab5b0af9cd35f392ce (patch)
tree5b669ca4764e50a0485b209a325fca9181c15b46
parent9b2a2dff2d3971654472e64779126d9bc9b64871 (diff)
downloadpowerkvm-84e2df8396b413091a736bab5b0af9cd35f392ce.tar.gz
Move precessing of MCE queued event out from syscall exit path.
Huge Dickins reported an issue that b5ff4211a829 "powerpc/book3s: Queue up and process delayed MCE events" breaks the PowerMac G5 boot. This patch fixes it by moving the mce even processing away from syscall exit, which was wrong to do that in first place, and using irq work framework to delay processing of mce event. Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/mce.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S5
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/mce.c13
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mce.h
index a2b8c7b35fbaf0..8e99edf6d966d8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ extern void save_mce_event(struct pt_regs *regs, long handled,
extern int get_mce_event(struct machine_check_event *mce, bool release);
extern void release_mce_event(void);
extern void machine_check_queue_event(void);
-extern void machine_check_process_queued_event(void);
extern void machine_check_print_event_info(struct machine_check_event *evt);
extern uint64_t get_mce_fault_addr(struct machine_check_event *evt);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 0c74ec70a237ba..8835f3c6318ba1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -183,11 +183,6 @@ syscall_exit:
bl .do_show_syscall_exit
ld r3,RESULT(r1)
#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
-BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
- bl .machine_check_process_queued_event
-END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_HVMODE)
-#endif
CURRENT_THREAD_INFO(r12, r1)
ld r8,_MSR(r1)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce.c
index c0c52ec1fca700..cadef7e64e4245 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
#include <asm/mce.h>
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, mce_nest_count);
@@ -35,6 +36,11 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct machine_check_event[MAX_MC_EVT], mce_event);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, mce_queue_count);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct machine_check_event[MAX_MC_EVT], mce_event_queue);
+static void machine_check_process_queued_event(struct irq_work *work);
+struct irq_work mce_event_process_work = {
+ .func = machine_check_process_queued_event,
+};
+
static void mce_set_error_info(struct machine_check_event *mce,
struct mce_error_info *mce_err)
{
@@ -185,17 +191,19 @@ void machine_check_queue_event(void)
return;
}
__get_cpu_var(mce_event_queue[index]) = evt;
+
+ /* Queue irq work to process this event later. */
+ irq_work_queue(&mce_event_process_work);
}
/*
* process pending MCE event from the mce event queue. This function will be
* called during syscall exit.
*/
-void machine_check_process_queued_event(void)
+static void machine_check_process_queued_event(struct irq_work *work)
{
int index;
- preempt_disable();
/*
* For now just print it to console.
* TODO: log this error event to FSP or nvram.
@@ -206,7 +214,6 @@ void machine_check_process_queued_event(void)
&__get_cpu_var(mce_event_queue[index]));
__get_cpu_var(mce_queue_count)--;
}
- preempt_enable();
}
void machine_check_print_event_info(struct machine_check_event *evt)