Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] cxl: Add mce notifier to emit aliased address for extended linear cache

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On 10/30/24 4:37 PM, Dave Jiang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/17/24 9:40 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:16:58 -0700
>> Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Below is a setup with extended linear cache configuration with an example
>>> layout of of memory region shown below presented as a single memory region
>>> consists of 256G memory where there's 128G of DRAM and 128G of CXL memory.
>>> The kernel sees a region of total 256G of system memory.
>>>
>>>               128G DRAM                          128G CXL memory
>>> |-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
>>>
>>> Data resides in either DRAM or far memory (FM) with no replication. Hot data
>>> is swapped into DRAM by the hardware behind the scenes. When error is detected
>>> in one location, it is possible that error also resides in the aliased
>>> location. Therefore when a memory location that is flagged by MCE is part of
>>> the special region, the aliased memory location needs to be offlined as well.
>>>
>>> Add an mce notify callback to identify if the MCE address location is part of
>>> an extended linear cache region and handle accordingly.
>>>
>>> Added symbol export to set_mce_nospec() in x86 code in order to call
>>> set_mce_nospec() from the CXL MCE notify callback.
>>
>> Whilst not commenting on whether any other implementation might exist,
>> this code should be written to be arch independent at some level.
> 
> I did get a 0-day report on this with mce bits. But with asm/mce.h included, it seems to make other archs happy as well AFAICT.

Ok I was wrong. Arch wrappers needed to deal with MCE bits only exists for x86. 

>>
>>>
>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/668333b17e4b2_5639294fd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.notmuch/
>>> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
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