[PATCH 00/11] APEI in_nmi() rework and arm64 SDEI wire-up

James Morse
2018-02-15T18:55:55Z

Hello!

The aim of this series is to wire arm64's SDEI into APEI.

What's SDEI? Its ARM's "Software Delegated Exception Interface" [0]. It's
used by firmware to tell the OS about firmware-first RAS events.

These Software exceptions can interrupt anything, so I describe them as
NMI-like. They aren't the only NMI-like way to notify the OS about
firmware-first RAS events, the ACPI spec also defines 'NOTFIY_SEA' and
'NOTIFY_SEI'.

(Acronyms: SEA, Synchronous External Abort. The CPU requested some memory,
but the owner of that memory said no. These are always synchronous with the
instruction that caused them. SEI, System-Error Interrupt, commonly called
SError. This is an asynchronous external abort, the memory-owner didn't say no
at the right point. Collectively these things are called external-aborts
How is firmware involved? It traps these and re-injects them into the kernel
once its written the CPER records).

APEI's GHES code only expects one source of NMI. If a platform implements
more than one of these mechanisms, APEI needs to handle the interaction.
'SEA' and 'SEI' can interact as 'SEI' is asynchronous. SDEI can interact
with itself: its exceptions can be 'normal' or 'critical', and firmware
could use both types for RAS. (errors using normal, 'panic-now' using
critical).

What does this series do?
Patches 1-3 refactor APEIs 'estatus queue' so it can be used for all
NMI-like notifications. This defers the NMI work to irq_work, which will
happen when we next unmask interrupts.

Patches 4&5 move the arch and KVM code around so that NMI-like notifications
are always called in_nmi().

Patch 6 splits the 'irq or nmi?' path through ghes_copy_tofrom_phys()
up to be per-ghes. This lets each ghes specify which other error-sources
it can share a fixmap-slot and lock with.

Patch 7 renames NOTIFY_SEA's use of NOTIFY_NMI's infrastructure, as we're
about to have multiple NMI-like users that can't share resources.

Pathes 8&9 add the SDEI helper, and notify methods for APEI.

After this, adding the last firmware-first piece for arm64 is simple
(and safe), and all our NMI-like notifications behave the same as x86's
NOTIFY_NMI.

All of this makes the race between memory_failure_queue() and
ret_to_user worse, as there is now always irq_work involved.

Patch 10 makes the reschedule to memory_failure() run as soon as possible.
Patch 11 makes sure the arch code knows whether the irq_work has run by
the time do_sea() returns. We can skip the signalling step if it has as
APEI has done its work.

ghes.c became clearer to me when I worked out that it has three sets of
functions with 'estatus' in the name. One is a pool of memory that can be
allocated-from atomically. This is grown/shrunk when new NMI users are
allocated.
The second is the estatus-cache, which holds recent notifications so it
can suppress notifications we've already handled.
The last it the estatus-queue, which holds data from NMI-like notifications
(in pool memory) to be processed from irq_work.

Testing?
Tested with the SDEI FVP based software model and a mocked up NOTFIY_SEA using
KVM. I've only build tested this on x86.

Trees... The changes outside APEI are tiny, but there will be some changes
to how arch/arm64/mm/fault.c generates signals, affecting do_sea() that will
cause conflicts with patch 5.

Thanks,

James

[0] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0054a/ARM_DEN0054A_Software_Delegated_Exception_Interface.pdf

James Morse (11):
ACPI / APEI: Move the estatus queue code up, and under its own ifdef
ACPI / APEI: Generalise the estatus queue's add/remove and notify code
ACPI / APEI: Switch NOTIFY_SEA to use the estatus queue
KVM: arm/arm64: Add kvm_ras.h to collect kvm specific RAS plumbing
arm64: KVM/mm: Move SEA handling behind a single 'claim' interface
ACPI / APEI: Make the fixmap_idx per-ghes to allow multiple in_nmi()
users
ACPI / APEI: Split fixmap pages for arm64 NMI-like notifications
firmware: arm_sdei: Add ACPI GHES registration helper
ACPI / APEI: Add support for the SDEI GHES Notification type
mm/memory-failure: increase queued recovery work's priority
arm64: acpi: Make apei_claim_sea() synchronise with APEI's irq work

arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_ras.h | 14 +
arch/arm/include/asm/system_misc.h | 5 -
arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 3 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/daifflags.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/fixmap.h | 8 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_ras.h | 29 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/system_misc.h | 2 -
arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.c | 49 ++++
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 30 +-
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 533 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
drivers/firmware/arm_sdei.c | 75 +++++
include/acpi/ghes.h | 5 +
include/linux/arm_sdei.h | 8 +
mm/memory-failure.c | 11 +-
virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 4 +-
15 files changed, 517 insertions(+), 260 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_ras.h
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_ras.h

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