linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck, branch v3.2.46

x86, mce, therm_throt: Don't report power limit and package level thermal throttle events in mcelog

2012-12-06T11:20:20+00:00

commit 29e9bf1841e4f9df13b4992a716fece7087dd237 upstream.

Thermal throttle and power limit events are not defined as MCE errors in x86
architecture and should not generate MCE errors in mcelog.

Current kernel generates fake software defined MCE errors for these events.
This may confuse users because they may think the machine has real MCE errors
while actually only thermal throttle or power limit events happen.

To make it worse, buggy firmware on some platforms may falsely generate
the events. Therefore, kernel reports MCE errors which users think as real
hardware errors. Although the firmware bugs should be fixed, on the other hand,
kernel should not report MCE errors either.

So mcelog is not a good mechanism to report these events. To report the events, we count them in respective counters (core_power_limit_count,
package_power_limit_count, core_throttle_count, and package_throttle_count) in
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/thermal_throttle/. Users can check the counters
for each event on each CPU. Please note that all CPU's on one package report
duplicate counters. It's user application's responsibity to retrieve a package
level counter for one package.

This patch doesn't report package level power limit, core level power limit, and
package level thermal throttle events in mcelog. When the events happen, only
report them in respective counters in sysfs.

Since core level thermal throttle has been legacy code in kernel for a while and
users accepted it as MCE error in mcelog, core level thermal throttle is still
reported in mcelog. In the mean time, the event is counted in a counter in sysfs
as well.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111215001945.GA21009@linux-os.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86: Simplify code by removing a !SMP #ifdefs from 'struct cpuinfo_x86'

2012-08-04T15:31:12+00:00

commit 141168c36cdee3ff23d9c7700b0edc47cb65479f and
commit 3f806e50981825fa56a7f1938f24c0680816be45 upstream.

Several fields in struct cpuinfo_x86 were not defined for the
!SMP case, likely to save space.  However, those fields still
have some meaning for UP, and keeping them allows some #ifdef
removal from other files.  The additional size of the UP kernel
from this change is not significant enough to worry about
keeping up the distinction:

	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	4737168	 506459	 972040	6215667	 5ed7f3	vmlinux.o.before
	4737444	 506459	 972040	6215943	 5ed907	vmlinux.o.after

for a difference of 276 bytes for an example UP config.

If someone wants those 276 bytes back badly then it should
be implemented in a cleaner way.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester 
Cc: Steffen Persvold 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324428742-12498-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86, MCE, AMD: Make APIC LVT thresholding interrupt optional

2012-06-19T22:18:05+00:00

commit f227d4306cf30e1d5b6f231e8ef9006c34f3d186 upstream.

Currently, the APIC LVT interrupt for error thresholding is implicitly
enabled. However, there are models in the F15h range which do not enable
it. Make the code machinery which sets up the APIC interrupt support
an optional setting and add an ->interrupt_capable member to the bank
representation mirroring that capability and enable the interrupt offset
programming only if it is true.

Simplify code and fixup comment style while at it.

This patch is for stable kernels v3.0 to v3.2.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/mce: Fix check for processor context when machine check was taken.

2012-05-30T23:44:02+00:00

commit 875e26648cf9b6db9d8dc07b7959d7c61fb3f49c upstream.

Linus pointed out that there was no value is checking whether m->ip
was zero - because zero is a legimate value.  If we have a reliable
(or faked in the VM86 case) "m->cs" we can use it to tell whether we
were in user mode or kernelwhen the machine check hit.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

MCE: Fix vm86 handling for 32bit mce handler

2012-05-30T23:44:02+00:00

commit a129a7c84582629741e5fa6f40026efcd7a65bd4 upstream.

When running on 32bit the mce handler could misinterpret
vm86 mode as ring 0. This can affect whether it does recovery
or not; it was possible to panic when recovery was actually
possible.

Fix this by always forcing vm86 to look like ring 3.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86/mce: Make mce_chrdev_ops 'static const'

2011-11-08T15:17:11+00:00

Arjan would like to make struct file_operations const, but
mce-inject directly writes to the mce_chrdev_ops to install its
write handler. In an ideal world mce-inject would have its own
character device, but we have a sizable legacy of test scripts
that hardwire "/dev/mcelog", so it would be painful to switch to
a separate device now. Instead, this patch switches to a stub
function in the mce code, with a registration helper that
mce-inject can call when it is loaded.

Note that this would also allow for a sane process to allow
mce-inject to be unloaded again (with an unregister function,
and appropriate module_{get,put}() calls), but that is left for
potential future patches.

Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4eb2e1971326651a3b@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00

* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include 
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include 
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of 
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need 
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h

Merge branch 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac

2011-11-02T23:55:15+00:00

* 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: (21 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add an entry for Edac Sandy Bridge driver
  edac: tag sb_edac as EXPERIMENTAL, as it requires more testing
  EDAC: Fix incorrect edac mode reporting in sb_edac
  edac: sb_edac: Add it to the building system
  edac: Add an experimental new driver to support Sandy Bridge CPU's
  i7300_edac: Fix error cleanup logic
  i7core_edac: Initialize memory name with cpu, channel, bank
  i7core_edac: Fix compilation on 32 bits arch
  i7core_edac: scrubbing fixups
  EDAC: Correct Kconfig dependencies
  i7core_edac: return -ENODEV if no MC is found
  i7core_edac: use edac's own way to print errors
  MAINTAINERS: remove dropped edac_mce.* from the file
  i7core_edac: Drop the edac_mce facility
  x86, MCE: Use notifier chain only for MCE decoding
  EDAC i7core: Use mce socketid for better compatibility
  i7core_edac: Don't enable memory scrubbing for Xeon 35xx
  i7core_edac: Add scrubbing support
  edac: Move edac main structs to include/linux/edac.h
  i7core_edac: Fix oops when trying to inject errors
  ...

i7core_edac: Drop the edac_mce facility

2011-11-01T12:01:24+00:00

Remove edac_mce pieces and use the normal MCE decoder notifier chain by
retaining the same functionality with considerably less code.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

x86: Fix files explicitly requiring export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE

2011-10-31T23:30:35+00:00

These files were implicitly getting EXPORT_SYMBOL via device.h
which was including module.h, but that will be fixed up shortly.

By fixing these now, we can avoid seeing things like:

arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c:29: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL’
arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c:20: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL’
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c:69: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL’

[ with input from Randy Dunlap  and also
  from Stephen Rothwell  ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker