On Mon, 2018-04-23 at 10:29 +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:
> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mah...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> The current code extracts the physical address for UE errors and then
> hooks it up into memory failure infrastructure. On successful extraction
> of physical address it wrongly sets "handled = 1" which means this UE error
> has been recovered. Since MCE handler gets return value as handled = 1, it
> assumes that error has been recovered and goes back to same NIP. This causes
> MCE interrupt again and again in a loop leading to hard lockup.
>
> Also, initialize phys_addr to ULONG_MAX so that we don't end up queuing
> undesired page to hwpoison.
>
> Without this patch we see:
> [ 1476.541984] Severe Machine check interrupt [Recovered]
> [ 1476.541985] NIP: [000000001002588c] PID: 7109 Comm: find
> [ 1476.541986] Initiator: CPU
> [ 1476.541987] Error type: UE [Load/Store]
> [ 1476.541988] Effective address: 00007fffd2755940
> [ 1476.541989] Physical address: 000020181a080000
> [...]
> [ 1476.542003] Severe Machine check interrupt [Recovered]
> [ 1476.542004] NIP: [000000001002588c] PID: 7109 Comm: find
> [ 1476.542005] Initiator: CPU
> [ 1476.542006] Error type: UE [Load/Store]
> [ 1476.542006] Effective address: 00007fffd2755940
> [ 1476.542007] Physical address: 000020181a080000
> [ 1476.542010] Severe Machine check interrupt [Recovered]
> [ 1476.542012] NIP: [000000001002588c] PID: 7109 Comm: find
> [ 1476.542013] Initiator: CPU
> [ 1476.542014] Error type: UE [Load/Store]
> [ 1476.542015] Effective address: 00007fffd2755940
> [ 1476.542016] Physical address: 000020181a080000
> [ 1476.542448] Memory failure: 0x20181a08: recovery action for dirty LRU
> page: Recovered
> [ 1476.542452] Memory failure: 0x20181a08: already hardware poisoned
> [ 1476.542453] Memory failure: 0x20181a08: already hardware poisoned
> [ 1476.542454] Memory failure: 0x20181a08: already hardware poisoned
> [ 1476.542455] Memory failure: 0x20181a08: already hardware poisoned
> [ 1476.542456] Memory failure: 0x20181a08: already hardware poisoned
> [ 1476.542457] Memory failure: 0x20181a08: already hardware poisoned
> [...]
> [ 1490.972174] Watchdog CPU:38 Hard LOCKUP
>
> After this patch we see:
>
> [ 325.384336] Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered]
> [ 325.384338] NIP: [00007fffaae585f4] PID: 7168 Comm: find
> [ 325.384339] Initiator: CPU
> [ 325.384341] Error type: UE [Load/Store]
> [ 325.384343] Effective address: 00007fffaafe28ac
> [ 325.384345] Physical address: 00002017c0bd0000
> [ 325.384350] find[7168]: unhandled signal 7 at 00007fffaae585f4 nip
> 00007fffaae585f4 lr 00007fffaae585e0 code 4
> [ 325.388574] Memory failure: 0x2017c0bd: recovery action for dirty LRU
> page: Recovered
>
> Fixes: 01eaac2b0591 ("powerpc/mce: Hookup ierror (instruction) UE errors")
> Fixes: ba41e1e1ccb9 ("powerpc/mce: Hookup derror (load/store) UE errors")
> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mah...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c | 8 +++-----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
> index fe6fc63251fe..63b58ae5d601 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
> @@ -441,7 +441,6 @@ static int mce_handle_ierror(struct pt_regs *regs,
> if (pfn != ULONG_MAX) {
> *phys_addr =
> (pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
> - handled = 1;
> }
> }
> }
> @@ -532,9 +531,8 @@ static int mce_handle_derror(struct pt_regs *regs,
> * kernel/exception-64s.h
> */
> if (get_paca()->in_mce < MAX_MCE_DEPTH)
> - if (!mce_find_instr_ea_and_pfn(regs, addr,
> - phys_addr))
> - handled = 1;
> + mce_find_instr_ea_and_pfn(regs, addr,
> + phys_addr);
> }
> found = 1;
> }
> @@ -572,7 +570,7 @@ static long mce_handle_error(struct pt_regs *regs,
> const struct mce_ierror_table itable[])
> {
> struct mce_error_info mce_err = { 0 };
> - uint64_t addr, phys_addr;
> + uint64_t addr, phys_addr = ULONG_MAX;
> uint64_t srr1 = regs->msr;
> long handled;
>
>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com>
