[GIT PATCH] APEI patches for Linux 3.1

From: Len Brown
Date: Wed Aug 03 2011 - 11:40:04 EST


Hi Linus,

please pull from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6.git apei-release

This will update the files shown below.

thanks!

Len Brown
Intel Open Source Technology Center

ps. individual patches are available on linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt | 11 +-
arch/Kconfig | 3 +
arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/avr32/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/frv/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/ia64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/m68k/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/parisc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/sh/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/tile/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig | 11 +-
drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c | 35 +++-
drivers/acpi/apei/apei-internal.h | 15 ++-
drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c | 43 +++--
drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c | 6 +-
drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c | 12 +-
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 431 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/acpi/apei/hest.c | 17 +-
drivers/acpi/bus.c | 14 +-
include/acpi/apei.h | 5 +
include/linux/acpi.h | 2 +
include/linux/bitmap.h | 1 +
include/linux/genalloc.h | 34 +++-
include/linux/llist.h | 126 +++++++++++
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
lib/Kconfig | 3 +
lib/Makefile | 2 +
lib/bitmap.c | 2 -
lib/genalloc.c | 300 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
lib/llist.c | 129 +++++++++++
mm/memory-failure.c | 92 ++++++++
35 files changed, 1172 insertions(+), 135 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/llist.h
create mode 100644 lib/llist.c

through these commits:

Chen Gong (1):
ACPI, APEI, ERST, Fix erst-dbg long record reading issue

Huang Ying (16):
ACPI, APEI, ERST, Prevent erst_dbg from loading if ERST is disabled
ACPI, APEI, GHES, Do not ratelimit fatal error printk before panic
ACPI, APEI, Add apei_exec_run_optional
ACPI, APEI, Use apei_exec_run_optional in APEI EINJ and ERST
ACPI, APEI, GHES, Prevent GHES to be built as module
ACPI, APEI, GHES, Support disable GHES at boot time
ACPI, APEI, Add APEI bit support in generic _OSC call
ACPI, APEI, Add WHEA _OSC support
Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list
lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless
ACPI, APEI, GHES, printk support for recoverable error via NMI
ACPI, APEI, GHES, Error records content based throttle
HWPoison: add memory_failure_queue()
ACPI, APEI, GHES: Add hardware memory error recovery support
ACPI, APEI, EINJ Param support is disabled by default

Len Brown (2):
ACPI: APEI build fix
APEI GHES: 32-bit buildfix

with this log:

commit d0e323b47057f4492b8fa22345f38d80a469bf8d
Merge: c027a47 c3e6088
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Aug 3 11:30:42 2011 -0400

Merge branch 'apei' into apei-release

Some trivial conflicts due to other various merges
adding to the end of common lists sooner than this one.

arch/ia64/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/x86/Kconfig
lib/Kconfig
lib/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit c3e6088e1036f8084bc7444b38437da136b7588b
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 20 16:09:29 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, EINJ Param support is disabled by default

EINJ parameter support is only usable for some specific BIOS.
Originally, it is expected to have no harm for BIOS does not support
it. But now, we found it will cause issue (memory overwriting) for
some BIOS. So param support is disabled by default and only enabled
when newly added module parameter named "param_extension" is
explicitly specified.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 70cb6e1da00db6c9212e6fd69bd96fd41c797077
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Aug 2 18:00:21 2011 -0400

APEI GHES: 32-bit buildfix

drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:542: warning: integer overflow in expression
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c:619: warning: integer overflow in expression

ghes.c:(.text+0x46289): undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
  in function ghes_estatus_cache_add().

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit a7e09d450b2e0b068e850d103b6ee1af537d1910
Author: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jul 16 18:14:21 2011 -0400

ACPI: APEI build fix

as GHES is optional...

When # CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_GHES is not set:

(.init.text+0x4c22): undefined reference to `ghes_disable'

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit ba61ca4aab47441f1c6cec28a9a6aa0489fd1df3
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:28 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, GHES: Add hardware memory error recovery support

memory_failure_queue() is called when recoverable memory errors are
notified by firmware to do the recovery work.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit ea8f5fb8a71fddaf5f3a17100d3247855701f732
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:27 2011 +0800

HWPoison: add memory_failure_queue()

memory_failure() is the entry point for HWPoison memory error
recovery. It must be called in process context. But commonly
hardware memory errors are notified via MCE or NMI, so some delayed
execution mechanism must be used. In MCE handler, a work queue + ring
buffer mechanism is used.

In addition to MCE, now APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) GHES
(Generic Hardware Error Source) can be used to report memory errors
too. To add support to APEI GHES memory recovery, a mechanism similar
to that of MCE is implemented. memory_failure_queue() is the new
entry point that can be called in IRQ context. The next step is to
make MCE handler uses this interface too.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 152cef40a808d3034e383465b3f7d6783613e458
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:26 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, GHES, Error records content based throttle

printk is used by GHES to report hardware errors. Ratelimit is
enforced on the printk to avoid too many hardware error reports in
kernel log. Because there may be thousands or even millions of
corrected hardware errors during system running.

Currently, a simple scheme is used. That is, the total number of
hardware error reporting is ratelimited. This may cause some issues
in practice.

For example, there are two kinds of hardware errors occurred in
system. One is corrected memory error, because the fault memory
address is accessed frequently, there may be hundreds error report
per-second. The other is corrected PCIe AER error, it will be
reported once per-second. Because they share one ratelimit control
structure, it is highly possible that only memory error is reported.

To avoid the above issue, an error record content based throttle
algorithm is implemented in the patch. Where after the first
successful reporting, all error records that are same are throttled for
some time, to let other kinds of error records have the opportunity to
be reported.

In above example, the memory errors will be throttled for some time,
after being printked. Then the PCIe AER error will be printked
successfully.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 67eb2e99076708cc790019a6a08ca3e0ae130a3a
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:25 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, GHES, printk support for recoverable error via NMI

Some APEI GHES recoverable errors are reported via NMI, but printk is
not safe in NMI context.

To solve the issue, a lock-less memory allocator is used to allocate
memory in NMI handler, save the error record into the allocated
memory, put the error record into a lock-less list. On the other
hand, an irq_work is used to delay the operation from NMI context to
IRQ context. The irq_work IRQ handler will remove nodes from
lock-less list, printk the error record and do some further processing
include recovery operation, then free the memory.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 7f184275aa306046fe7edcbef3229754f0d97402
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:24 2011 +0800

lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless

This version of the gen_pool memory allocator supports lockless
operation.

This makes it safe to use in NMI handlers and other special
unblockable contexts that could otherwise deadlock on locks. This is
implemented by using atomic operations and retries on any conflicts.
The disadvantage is that there may be livelocks in extreme cases. For
better scalability, one gen_pool allocator can be used for each CPU.

The lockless operation only works if there is enough memory available.
If new memory is added to the pool a lock has to be still taken. So
any user relying on locklessness has to ensure that sufficient memory
is preallocated.

The basic atomic operation of this allocator is cmpxchg on long. On
architectures that don't have NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation, the
allocator can NOT be used in NMI handler. So code uses the allocator
in NMI handler should depend on CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit f49f23abf3dd786ddcac1c1e7db3c2013b07413f
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:23 2011 +0800

lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list

Cmpxchg is used to implement adding new entry to the list, deleting
all entries from the list, deleting first entry of the list and some
other operations.

Because this is a single list, so the tail can not be accessed in O(1).

If there are multiple producers and multiple consumers, llist_add can
be used in producers and llist_del_all can be used in consumers. They
can work simultaneously without lock. But llist_del_first can not be
used here. Because llist_del_first depends on list->first->next does
not changed if list->first is not changed during its operation, but
llist_del_first, llist_add, llist_add (or llist_del_all, llist_add,
llist_add) sequence in another consumer may violate that.

If there are multiple producers and one consumer, llist_add can be
used in producers and llist_del_all or llist_del_first can be used in
the consumer.

This can be summarized as follow:

| add | del_first | del_all
add | - | - | -
del_first | | L | L
del_all | | | -

Where "-" stands for no lock is needed, while "L" stands for lock is
needed.

The list entries deleted via llist_del_all can be traversed with
traversing function such as llist_for_each etc. But the list entries
can not be traversed safely before deleted from the list. The order
of deleted entries is from the newest to the oldest added one. If you
want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must reverse the
order by yourself before traversing.

The basic atomic operation of this list is cmpxchg on long. On
architectures that don't have NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation, the
list can NOT be used in NMI handler. So code uses the list in NMI
handler should depend on CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit df013ffb8119c89f062ab05b7f544704315db47b
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:22 2011 +0800

Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG

cmpxchg() is widely used by lockless code, including NMI-safe lockless
code. But on some architectures, the cmpxchg() implementation is not
NMI-safe, on these architectures the lockless code may need a
spin_trylock_irqsave() based implementation.

This patch adds a Kconfig option: ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, so that
NMI-safe lockless code can depend on it or provide different
implementation according to it.

On many architectures, cmpxchg is only NMI-safe for several specific
operand sizes. So, ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG define in this patch
only guarantees cmpxchg is NMI-safe for sizeof(unsigned long).

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Mikael Starvik <starvik@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Hirokazu Takata <takata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Chris Zankel <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 9fb0bfe1408d5506b7b83d13d1eed573fd71d67d
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:21 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, Add WHEA _OSC support

APEI firmware first mode must be turned on explicitly on some
machines, otherwise there may be no GHES hardware error record for
hardware error notification. APEI bit in generic _OSC call can be
used to do that, but on some machine, a special WHEA _OSC call must be
used. This patch adds the support to that WHEA _OSC call.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit eccddd32ced0df8f9130024157bf8d37df860d76
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:20 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, Add APEI bit support in generic _OSC call

In APEI firmware first mode, hardware error is reported by hardware to
firmware firstly, then firmware reports the error to Linux in a GHES
error record via POLL/SCI/IRQ/NMI etc.

This may result in some issues if OS has no full APEI support. So
some firmware implementation will work in a back-compatible mode by
default. Where firmware will only notify OS in old-fashion, without
GHES record. For example, for a fatal hardware error, only NMI is
signaled, no GHES record.

To gain full APEI power on these machines, APEI bit in generic _OSC
call can be specified to tell firmware that Linux has full APEI
support. This patch adds the APEI bit support in generic _OSC call.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit b6a9501658530d8b8374e37f1edb549039a8a260
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:19 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, GHES, Support disable GHES at boot time

Some machine may have broken firmware so that GHES and firmware first
mode should be disabled. This patch adds support to that.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 86cd47334b00b6aa9b5d0ebf389a6fe76f21c641
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:18 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, GHES, Prevent GHES to be built as module

GHES (Generic Hardware Error Source) is used to process hardware error
notification in firmware first mode. But because firmware first mode
can be turned on but can not be turned off, it is unreasonable to
unload the GHES module with firmware first mode turned on. To avoid
confusion, this patch makes GHES can be enabled/disabled in
configuration time, but not built as module and unloaded at run time.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 392913de7cc7446531922f29c0a4382d8d09626c
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:17 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, Use apei_exec_run_optional in APEI EINJ and ERST

This patch changes APEI EINJ and ERST to use apei_exec_run for
mandatory actions, and apei_exec_run_optional for optional actions.

Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit eecf2f7124834dd1cad21807526a8ea031ba8217
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:16 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, Add apei_exec_run_optional

Some actions in APEI ERST and EINJ tables are optional, for example,
ACPI_EINJ_BEGIN_OPERATION action is used to do some preparation for
error injection, and firmware may choose to do nothing here. While
some other actions are mandatory, for example, firmware must provide
ACPI_EINJ_GET_ERROR_TYPE implementation.

Original implementation treats all actions as optional (that is, can
have no instructions), that may cause issue if firmware does not
provide some mandatory actions. To fix this, this patch adds
apei_exec_run_optional, which should be used for optional actions.
The original apei_exec_run should be used for mandatory actions.

Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 5588340d46a484da53bbce8136184d9c7fbc259c
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:15 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, GHES, Do not ratelimit fatal error printk before panic

printk is used by GHES to report hardware errors. Normally, the
printk will be ratelimited to avoid too many hardware error reports in
kernel log. Because there may be thousands or even millions of
corrected hardware errors during system running.

That is different for fatal hardware error, because system will go
panic as soon as possible, there will be no more than several error
records. And these error records are valuable for system fault
diagnosis, so they should not be ratelimited.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit d37afc50e618271839f001ea653949eefc728167
Author: Chen Gong <gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:14 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, ERST, Fix erst-dbg long record reading issue

When we debug ERST table with erst-dbg, if the error record in ERST
table is too long(>4K), it can't be read out. So this patch increases
the buffer size to 16K to ensure such error records can be read from
ERST table.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>

commit ca7cc5110a313a609da40ae948978a585352564b
Author: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 13 13:14:13 2011 +0800

ACPI, APEI, ERST, Prevent erst_dbg from loading if ERST is disabled

erst_dbg module can not work when ERST is disabled. So disable module
loading to provide clearer information to user.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>