[PATCH v10 0/3] Handle corrected machine check interrupt storms

From: Tony Luck
Date: Wed Nov 15 2023 - 14:55:07 EST


Linux CMCI storm mitigation is a big hammer that just disables the CMCI
interrupt globally and switches to polling all banks.

There are two problems with this:
1) It really is a big hammer. It means that errors reported in other
banks from different functional units are all subject to the same
polling delay before being processed.
2) Intel systems signal some uncorrected errors using CMCI (e.g.
memory controller patrol scrub on Icelake Xeon and newer). Delaying
processing these error reports negates some of the benefit of the patrol
scrubber providing early notice of errors before they are consumed and
cause a machine check.

This series throws away the old storm implementation and replaces it
with one that keeps track of the weather on each separate machine check
bank. When a storm is detected from a bank. On Intel the storm is
mitigated by setting a very high threshold for corrected errors to
signal CMCI. This threshold does not affect signaling CMCI for
uncorrected errors.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

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Changes since v9 (based on Boris reviews)

#1 Better commit comment on flow. Added detail that both timer poll
and CMCI feed results of scanning each bank into the history
calculation. Also added comment in code where mce_trac_storm()
is called.
#2 Set a flag for banks that don't support CMCI so they can be
excluded from history processing
#3 Skip history processing if CMCI globally disabled with boot
argument mce=cmci_disable
#4 Move struct mca_storm_desc definition to internal.h (I had argued
against the need for this, but the new "poll_mode" flag added in
change #2 needs to be set in intel.c).
#5 Add #define NUM_HISTORY_BITS instead of hard-coded "64".
#6 Rebase to v6.7-rc1


Tony Luck (3):
x86/mce: Remove old CMCI storm mitigation code
x86/mce: Add per-bank CMCI storm mitigation
x86/mce: Handle Intel threshold interrupt storms

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/internal.h | 66 +++++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c | 53 +++--
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/intel.c | 304 ++++++++++++----------------
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/threshold.c | 115 +++++++++++
4 files changed, 332 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-)


base-commit: b85ea95d086471afb4ad062012a4d73cd328fa86
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