RE: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Disable preemption for CPER decoding

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Thu Jun 22 2023 - 15:43:04 EST


> 2) Split mce_setup() into global and per_cpu parts. The memset(), cpuid,
> etc. would be global, and the cpu_data()* and rdmsr() would be per_cpu.

That sounds good. So global is:

memset(m, 0, sizeof(struct mce));
/* need the internal __ version to avoid deadlocks */
m->time = __ktime_get_real_seconds();
m->cpuvendor = boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor;
m->mcgcap = __rdmsr(MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP);
m->microcode = boot_cpu_data.microcode;
m->cpuid = cpuid_eax(1);

Though that last one is perhaps per-cpu if you want to allow for mixed-stepping systems.
Perhaps m->time also? Questionable whether it is useful to log time this record
was created, when it refers to something much earlier in the BERT case.

and per-cpu is:

m->cpu = m->extcpu = smp_processor_id();
m->socketid = cpu_data(m->extcpu).phys_proc_id;
m->apicid = cpu_data(m->extcpu).initial_apicid;
m->ppin = cpu_data(m->extcpu).ppin;

> Option #2 can also be used in apei_mce_report_mem_error(), I think.

Agreed.

-Tony