Re: [PATCH v7 14/25] arm64: KVM/mm: Move SEA handling behind a single 'claim' interface

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 06:06:02PM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> To split up APEIs in_nmi() path, the caller needs to always be
> in_nmi(). Add a helper to do the work and claim the notification.
> 
> When KVM or the arch code takes an exception that might be a RAS
> notification, it asks the APEI firmware-first code whether it wants
> to claim the exception. A future kernel-first mechanism may be queried
> afterwards, and claim the notification, otherwise we fall through
> to the existing default behaviour.
> 
> The NOTIFY_SEA code was merged before considering multiple, possibly
> interacting, NMI-like notifications and the need to consider kernel
> first in the future. Make the 'claiming' behaviour explicit.
> 
> Restructuring the APEI code to allow multiple NMI-like notifications
> means any notification that might interrupt interrupts-masked
> code must always be wrapped in nmi_enter()/nmi_exit(). This will
> allow APEI to use in_nmi() to use the right fixmap entries.
> 
> Mask SError over this window to prevent an asynchronous RAS error
> arriving and tripping 'nmi_enter()'s BUG_ON(in_nmi()).
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
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