From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH V15 06/11] acpi: apei: handle SEA notification type for ARMv8 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:21:54 +0200 Message-ID: <20170425172154.ggg56j52inf3522e@pd.tnic> References: <1492556723-9189-1-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org> <1492556723-9189-7-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1492556723-9189-7-git-send-email-tbaicar@codeaurora.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu To: Tyler Baicar Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, matt@codeblueprint.co.uk, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, robert.moore@intel.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, lv.zheng@intel.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, fu.wei@linaro.org, rafael@kernel.org, zjzhang@codeaurora.org, linux@armlinux.org.uk, gengdongjiu@huawei.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, eun.taik.lee@samsung.com, shijie.huang@arm.com, labbott@redhat.com, lenb@kernel.org, harba@codeaurora.org, john.garry@huawei.com, marc.zyngier@arm.com, punit.agrawal@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, nkaje@codeaurora.org, sandeepa.s.prabhu@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devel@acpica.org, tony.luck@intel.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net, rruigrok@codeaurora.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, astone@redhat.com, hanjun.guo@linaro.org, joe@perches.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, bristot@redhat.com List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:05:18PM -0600, Tyler Baicar wrote: > ARM APEI extension proposal added SEA (Synchronous External Abort) > notification type for ARMv8. > Add a new GHES error source handling function for SEA. If an error > source's notification type is SEA, then this function can be registered > into the SEA exception handler. That way GHES will parse and report > SEA exceptions when they occur. > An SEA can interrupt code that had interrupts masked and is treated as > an NMI. To aid this the page of address space for mapping APEI buffers > while in_nmi() is always reserved, and ghes_ioremap_pfn_nmi() is > changed to use the helper methods to find the prot_t to map with in > the same way as ghes_ioremap_pfn_irq(). ... > @@ -518,6 +520,17 @@ static int do_sea(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs) > pr_err("Synchronous External Abort: %s (0x%08x) at 0x%016lx\n", > inf->name, esr, addr); > > + /* > + * Synchronous aborts may interrupt code which had interrupts masked. > + * Before calling out into the wider kernel tell the interested > + * subsystems. > + */ > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_SEA)) { > + nmi_enter(); > + ghes_notify_sea(); > + nmi_exit(); > + } Well, the other GHES notification methods use a notifier: ghes_notify_sci, ghes_notify_nmi. You probably should do that too instead of calling straight into a driver from arch code. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.