[PATCH v10 1/4] ACPI: APEI: set memory failure flags as MF_ACTION_REQUIRED on synchronous events

Shuai Xue
2023-12-18T06:45:37Z

There are two major types of uncorrected recoverable (UCR) errors :

- Synchronous error: The error is detected and raised at the point of the
consumption in the execution flow, e.g. when a CPU tries to access
a poisoned cache line. The CPU will take a synchronous error exception
such as Synchronous External Abort (SEA) on Arm64 and Machine Check
Exception (MCE) on X86. OS requires to take action (for example, offline
failure page/kill failure thread) to recover this uncorrectable error.

- Asynchronous error: The error is detected out of processor execution
context, e.g. when an error is detected by a background scrubber. Some data
in the memory are corrupted. But the data have not been consumed. OS is
optional to take action to recover this uncorrectable error.

When APEI firmware first is enabled, a platform may describe one error
source for the handling of synchronous errors (e.g. MCE or SEA notification
), or for handling asynchronous errors (e.g. SCI or External Interrupt
notification). In other words, we can distinguish synchronous errors by
APEI notification. For synchronous errors, kernel will kill the current
process which accessing the poisoned page by sending SIGBUS with
BUS_MCEERR_AR. In addition, for asynchronous errors, kernel will notify the
process who owns the poisoned page by sending SIGBUS with BUS_MCEERR_AO in
early kill mode. However, the GHES driver always sets mf_flags to 0 so that
all synchronous errors are handled as asynchronous errors in memory failure.

To this end, set memory failure flags as MF_ACTION_REQUIRED on synchronous
events.

Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaofei Tan <tanxiaofei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
---
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
index 63ad0541db38..ab2a82cb1b0b 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -101,6 +101,20 @@ static inline bool is_hest_type_generic_v2(struct ghes *ghes)
return ghes->generic->header.type == ACPI_HEST_TYPE_GENERIC_ERROR_V2;
}

+/*
+ * A platform may describe one error source for the handling of synchronous
+ * errors (e.g. MCE or SEA), or for handling asynchronous errors (e.g. SCI
+ * or External Interrupt). On x86, the HEST notifications are always
+ * asynchronous, so only SEA on ARM is delivered as a synchronous
+ * notification.
+ */
+static inline bool is_hest_sync_notify(struct ghes *ghes)
+{
+ u8 notify_type = ghes->generic->notify.type;
+
+ return notify_type == ACPI_HEST_NOTIFY_SEA;
+}
+
/*
* This driver isn't really modular, however for the time being,
* continuing to use module_param is the easiest way to remain
@@ -489,7 +503,7 @@ static bool ghes_do_memory_failure(u64 physical_addr, int flags)
}

static bool ghes_handle_memory_failure(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata,
- int sev)
+ int sev, bool sync)
{
int flags = -1;
int sec_sev = ghes_severity(gdata->error_severity);
@@ -503,7 +517,7 @@ static bool ghes_handle_memory_failure(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata,
(gdata->flags & CPER_SEC_ERROR_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED))
flags = MF_SOFT_OFFLINE;
if (sev == GHES_SEV_RECOVERABLE && sec_sev == GHES_SEV_RECOVERABLE)
- flags = 0;
+ flags = sync ? MF_ACTION_REQUIRED : 0;

if (flags != -1)
return ghes_do_memory_failure(mem_err->physical_addr, flags);
@@ -511,9 +525,11 @@ static bool ghes_handle_memory_failure(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata,
return false;
}

-static bool ghes_handle_arm_hw_error(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata, int sev)
+static bool ghes_handle_arm_hw_error(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata,
+ int sev, bool sync)
{
struct cper_sec_proc_arm *err = acpi_hest_get_payload(gdata);
+ int flags = sync ? MF_ACTION_REQUIRED : 0;
bool queued = false;
int sec_sev, i;
char *p;
@@ -538,7 +554,7 @@ static bool ghes_handle_arm_hw_error(struct acpi_hest_generic_data *gdata, int s
* and don't filter out 'corrected' error here.
*/
if (is_cache && has_pa) {
- queued = ghes_do_memory_failure(err_info->physical_fault_addr, 0);
+ queued = ghes_do_memory_failure(err_info->physical_fault_addr, flags);
p += err_info->length;
continue;
}
@@ -666,6 +682,7 @@ static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
const guid_t *fru_id = &guid_null;
char *fru_text = "";
bool queued = false;
+ bool sync = is_hest_sync_notify(ghes);

sev = ghes_severity(estatus->error_severity);
apei_estatus_for_each_section(estatus, gdata) {
@@ -683,13 +700,13 @@ static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
atomic_notifier_call_chain(&ghes_report_chain, sev, mem_err);

arch_apei_report_mem_error(sev, mem_err);
- queued = ghes_handle_memory_failure(gdata, sev);
+ queued = ghes_handle_memory_failure(gdata, sev, sync);
}
else if (guid_equal(sec_type, &CPER_SEC_PCIE)) {
ghes_handle_aer(gdata);
}
else if (guid_equal(sec_type, &CPER_SEC_PROC_ARM)) {
- queued = ghes_handle_arm_hw_error(gdata, sev);
+ queued = ghes_handle_arm_hw_error(gdata, sev, sync);
} else {
void *err = acpi_hest_get_payload(gdata);

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