From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86/mce: Stop mce_reign() from re-computing severity for every CPU
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:21:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914172107.GE680@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200908175519.14223-2-tony.luck@intel.com>
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:55:12AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> Back in:
>
> commit 20d51a426fe9 ("x86/mce: Reuse one of the u16 padding fields in 'struct mce'")
>
> a field was added to "struct mce" to save the computed error severity.
>
> Make use of this in mce_reign() to avoid re-computing the severity
> for every CPU.
Yah, could go as a standalone optimization...
> In the case where we panic, we do still need one call to mce_severity to
> provide the correct message giving the reason for the panic.
... but pls do not use the "we" formulation as this ambiguous. I'll fix
that up now.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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[not found] <20200908175519.14223-1-tony.luck@intel.com>
2020-09-08 17:55 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86/mce: Stop mce_reign() from re-computing severity for every CPU Tony Luck
2020-09-14 17:21 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-09-14 17:32 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-09-08 17:55 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86/mce: Add _ASM_EXTABLE_CPY for copy user access Tony Luck
2020-09-16 9:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-08 17:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86/mce: Avoid tail copy when machine check terminated a copy from user Tony Luck
2020-09-16 10:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-16 19:26 ` Luck, Tony
2020-09-17 17:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-17 21:57 ` Luck, Tony
2020-09-18 7:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-08 17:55 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86/mce: Change fault_in_kernel_space() from static to global Tony Luck
2020-09-08 17:55 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86/mce: Recover from poison found while copying from user space Tony Luck
2020-09-18 16:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-08 17:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86/mce: Decode a kernel instruction to determine if it is copying from user Tony Luck
2020-09-21 11:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Add machine check recovery when copying from user space Tony Luck
2020-09-30 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] x86/mce: Pass pointer to saved pt_regs to severity calculation routines Tony Luck
2020-09-30 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] x86/mce: Provide method to find out the type of exception handle Tony Luck
2020-10-05 16:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/mce: Add _ASM_EXTABLE_CPY for copy user access Tony Luck
2020-10-05 16:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] x86/mce: Avoid tail copy when machine check terminated a copy from user Tony Luck
2020-09-30 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] x86/mce: Change fault_in_kernel_space() from static to global Tony Luck
2020-10-05 16:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] x86/mce: Recover from poison found while copying from user space Tony Luck
2020-10-05 16:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-05 17:47 ` Luck, Tony
2020-09-30 23:26 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] x86/mce: Decode a kernel instruction to determine if it is copying from user Tony Luck
2020-10-05 16:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-06 21:09 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] Add machine check recovery when copying from user space Tony Luck
2020-10-06 21:09 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] x86/mce: Pass pointer to saved pt_regs to severity calculation routines Tony Luck
2020-10-07 10:02 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Youquan Song
2020-10-06 21:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] x86/mce: Provide method to find out the type of exception handle Tony Luck
2020-10-07 10:02 ` [tip: ras/core] x86/mce: Provide method to find out the type of an exception handler tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-10-06 21:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] x86/mce: Add _ASM_EXTABLE_CPY for copy user access Tony Luck
2020-10-07 10:02 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Youquan Song
2020-10-06 21:09 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] x86/mce: Avoid tail copy when machine check terminated a copy from user Tony Luck
2020-10-07 8:23 ` David Laight
2020-10-07 18:49 ` Luck, Tony
2020-10-07 21:11 ` David Laight
2020-10-07 10:02 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-10-06 21:09 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] x86/mce: Recover from poison found while copying from user space Tony Luck
2020-10-07 10:02 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-10-06 21:09 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] x86/mce: Decode a kernel instruction to determine if it is copying from user Tony Luck
2020-10-07 10:02 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-09-09 15:05 ` [RESEND PATCH 0/8] Add machine check recovery when copying from user space Tony Luck
[not found] ` <20200908175519.14223-4-tony.luck@intel.com>
2020-09-15 9:11 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86/mce: Provide method to find out the type of exception handle Borislav Petkov
2020-09-15 16:24 ` Luck, Tony
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