Re: [PATCH v4] x86/mce: retrieve poison range from hardware

From: Jane Chu
Date: Wed Jul 27 2022 - 15:25:29 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 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)));
so that in the pmem poison case, 'grain' would be 8, not 7.

thanks,
-jane

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