Re: [PATCH -v3] x86, MCE: Drop the default decoding notifier

[Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>]

On 04/14/2011 11:16 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:04:43AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>   
>>
>> On 04/14/2011 11:00 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:37:05PM -0400, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> In the worst case, we will report 32 CEs before panicking. For that case
>>>> we either do printk_once as Tony suggested or we ratelimit it. I'll
>>>> update the patch.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Ok, how about the following, I ratelimit the printk to the default of 10
>>> messages per 5 seconds. I've also got the hardware MCE injection patches
>>> ready and will do some testing with them.
>>>   
>>>       
>> See my previous email ;)  I think just putting in a printk_once after
>> the CE call to print_mce() in mce_panic() might be better?  At least
>> that way we get the --ascii message for *EVERY* UC which IMO would be
>> nice...
>>     
> Are you sure? printk_once() is, as its name says, a one-time thing and
> it is implemented that way - a static bool counter which is once set and
> that's it. I.e., the "--ascii" message will be printed only once for the
> system's lifetime.
>   

Oops ... I may have confused you because what I did was subtle.  I
really should have explicitly pointed out what I did.  Sorry, my bad.

>From my patch (sorry for the cut-and-paste):

@@ -239,7 +227,10 @@ static void print_mce(struct mce *m)
         * Print out human-readable details about the MCE error,
         * (if the CPU has an implementation for that)
         */
-       atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
+       ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&x86_mce_decoder_chain, 0, m);
+       if (ret != NOTIFY_STOP && (m->status & MCI_STATUS_UC))
+               pr_emerg(HW_ERR "Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii' "
+                        "to decode.\n");
 }
 
This, of course, only outputs during UCs.

and

@@ -289,6 +280,8 @@ static void mce_panic(char *msg, struct mce *final,
char *exp)
                        continue;
                if (!(m->status & MCI_STATUS_UC)) {
                        print_mce(m);
+                       printk_once(KERN_EMERG HW_ERR "MCE Corrected
Error(s) "
+                                   "detected.");
                        if (!apei_err)
                                apei_err = apei_write_mce(m);
                }

so we'll print "MCE Corrected Error(s)" _once_ if we go through this
path.  Since there is no data to decode with mcelog, a nice little one
time message is probably the way to go :).

P.