Commit 5d96c934 authored by Vishal Verma's avatar Vishal Verma Committed by Borislav Petkov

acpi/nfit, x86/mce: Handle only uncorrectable machine checks

The MCE handler for nfit devices is called for memory errors on a
Non-Volatile DIMM and adds the error location to a 'badblocks' list.
This list is used by the various NVDIMM drivers to avoid consuming known
poison locations during IO.

The MCE handler gets called for both corrected and uncorrectable errors.
Until now, both kinds of errors have been added to the badblocks list.
However, corrected memory errors indicate that the problem has already
been fixed by hardware, and the resulting interrupt is merely a
notification to Linux.

As far as future accesses to that location are concerned, it is
perfectly fine to use, and thus doesn't need to be included in the above
badblocks list.

Add a check in the nfit MCE handler to filter out corrected mce events,
and only process uncorrectable errors.

Fixes: 6839a6d9 ("nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error")
Reported-by: default avatarOmar Avelar <omar.avelar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
CC: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
CC: elliott@hpe.com
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
CC: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
CC: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
CC: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
CC: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org>
CC: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
CC: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
CC: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181026003729.8420-1-vishal.l.verma@intel.com
parent 437e88ab
......@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static inline void mce_hygon_feature_init(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { return mce_am
int mce_available(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
bool mce_is_memory_error(struct mce *m);
bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned, mce_exception_count);
DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned, mce_poll_count);
......
......@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ bool mce_is_memory_error(struct mce *m)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mce_is_memory_error);
static bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m)
bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m)
{
if (m->cpuvendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD && m->status & MCI_STATUS_DEFERRED)
return false;
......@@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ static bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m)
return true;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mce_is_correctable);
static bool cec_add_mce(struct mce *m)
{
......
......@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ static int nfit_handle_mce(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
struct acpi_nfit_desc *acpi_desc;
struct nfit_spa *nfit_spa;
/* We only care about memory errors */
if (!mce_is_memory_error(mce))
/* We only care about uncorrectable memory errors */
if (!mce_is_memory_error(mce) || mce_is_correctable(mce))
return NOTIFY_DONE;
/*
......
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