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From: james.morse@arm•com (James Morse)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V8 06/10] acpi: apei: panic OS with fatal error status block
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:13:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58A445D5.7030501@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b06372d-e389-5157-ccb4-a7b023990d4d@codeaurora.org>

Hi Tyler,

On 13/02/17 22:45, Baicar, Tyler wrote:
> On 2/9/2017 3:48 AM, James Morse wrote:
>> On 01/02/17 17:16, Tyler Baicar wrote:
>>> From: "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" <zjzhang@codeaurora•org>
>>>
>>> Even if an error status block's severity is fatal, the kernel does not
>>> honor the severity level and panic.
>>>
>>> With the firmware first model, the platform could inform the OS about a
>>> fatal hardware error through the non-NMI GHES notification type. The OS
>>> should panic when a hardware error record is received with this
>>> severity.
>>>
>>> Call panic() after CPER data in error status block is printed if
>>> severity is fatal, before each error section is handled.

>>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>>> index 8756172..86c1f15 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
>>> @@ -687,6 +689,13 @@ static int ghes_ack_error(struct acpi_hest_generic_v2
>>> *generic_v2)
>>>       return rc;
>>>   }
>>>   +static void __ghes_call_panic(void)
>>> +{
>>> +    if (panic_timeout == 0)
>>> +        panic_timeout = ghes_panic_timeout;
>>> +    panic("Fatal hardware error!");
>>> +}
>>> +

>> __ghes_panic() also has:
>>>     __ghes_print_estatus(KERN_EMERG, ghes->generic, ghes->estatus);
>> Which prints this estatus regardless of rate limiting and cache-ing.

[...]

>>>               ghes_estatus_cache_add(ghes->generic, ghes->estatus);
>>>       }
>>> +    if (ghes_severity(ghes->estatus->error_severity) >= GHES_SEV_PANIC) {
>>> +        __ghes_call_panic();
>>> +    }

>> I think this ghes_severity() then panic() should go above the:
>>>     if (!ghes_estatus_cached(ghes->estatus)) {
>> and we should call __ghes_print_estatus() here too, to make sure the message
>> definitely got out!


> Okay, that makes sense. If we move this up, is there a problem with calling
> __ghes_panic() instead of making the __ghes_print_estatus() and
> __ghes_call_panic() calls here? It looks like that will just add a call to
> oops_begin() and ghes_print_queued_estatus() as well, but this is what
> ghes_notify_nmi() does if the severity is panic.


I don't think the queued stuff is relevant, isn't that just for x86-NMI messages
that it doesn't print out directly?

A quick grep shows arm64 doesn't have oops_begin(), you may have to add some
equivalent mechanism. Lets try and avoid that rabbit hole!

Given __ghes_panic() calls __ghes_print_estatus() too, you could try moving that
into your new __ghes_call_panic().... or whatever results in the least lines
changed!


Thanks,

James

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-15 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-01 17:16 [PATCH V8 00/10] Add UEFI 2.6 and ACPI 6.1 updates for RAS on ARM64 Tyler Baicar
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 01/10] acpi: apei: read ack upon ghes record consumption Tyler Baicar
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 02/10] ras: acpi/apei: cper: generic error data entry v3 per ACPI 6.1 Tyler Baicar
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 03/10] efi: parse ARM processor error Tyler Baicar
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 04/10] arm64: exception: handle Synchronous External Abort Tyler Baicar
2017-02-03 15:59   ` James Morse
2017-02-03 20:24     ` Baicar, Tyler
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 05/10] acpi: apei: handle SEA notification type for ARMv8 Tyler Baicar
2017-02-01 22:26   ` kbuild test robot
2017-02-03 16:00   ` James Morse
2017-02-03 20:38     ` Baicar, Tyler
2017-02-15  6:24   ` Zhengqiang
2017-02-15 14:58     ` Baicar, Tyler
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 06/10] acpi: apei: panic OS with fatal error status block Tyler Baicar
2017-02-09 10:48   ` James Morse
2017-02-13 22:45     ` Baicar, Tyler
2017-02-15 12:13       ` James Morse [this message]
2017-02-15 17:07         ` Baicar, Tyler
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 07/10] efi: print unrecognized CPER section Tyler Baicar
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 08/10] ras: acpi / apei: generate trace event for " Tyler Baicar
2017-02-01 23:20   ` kbuild test robot
2017-02-15 15:52   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-15 16:54     ` Baicar, Tyler
2017-02-15 17:03       ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-15 17:06         ` Baicar, Tyler
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 09/10] trace, ras: add ARM processor error trace event Tyler Baicar
2017-02-02  2:34   ` kbuild test robot
2017-02-02  3:15   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-02-03 20:18     ` Baicar, Tyler
2017-02-01 17:16 ` [PATCH V8 10/10] arm/arm64: KVM: add guest SEA support Tyler Baicar

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