Tony,
Thanks - I have included your text in the patch. I wasn't sure if I should add
your Signed-off-by. Kindly review and do the needful.
Thanks,
Naveen
--
Add comments to clarify usage of the various bitfields in the MCA subsystem
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 5 ++++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 9239504..bf49cdb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -89,7 +89,10 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(mce_chrdev_wait);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mce, mces_seen);
static int cpu_missing;
-/* MCA banks polled by the period polling timer for corrected events */
+/*
+ * MCA banks polled by the period polling timer for corrected events.
+ * With Intel CMCI, this only has MCA banks which do not support CMCI (if any).
+ */
DEFINE_PER_CPU(mce_banks_t, mce_poll_banks) = {
[0 ... BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NR_BANKS)-1] = ~0UL
};
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c
index ae1697c..d5640530 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.c
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@
* Also supports reliable discovery of shared banks.
*/
+/*
+ * CMCI can be delivered to multiple cpus that share a machine check bank
+ * so we need to designate a single cpu to process errors logged in each bank
+ * in the interrupt handler (otherwise we would have many races and potential
+ * double reporting of the same error).
+ * Note that this can change when a cpu is offlined or brought online since
+ * some MCA banks are shared across cpus. When a cpu is offlined, cmci_clear()
+ * disables CMCI on all banks owned by the cpu and clears this bitfield. At
+ * this point, cmci_rediscover() kicks in and a different cpu may end up
+ * taking ownership of some of the shared MCA banks that were previously
+ * owned by the offlined cpu.
+ */
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(mce_banks_t, mce_banks_owned);
/*
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