Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, mce, amd: extend mce-inject for support threshold interrupt event injection on AMD platform

[Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 11:51 -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> On 11/3/2014 11:05 AM, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> >
> > There are three ways that have been used to report machine check event.
> > And they are MCE, CMCI/Threshold Interrupt, and POLL. On the Intel
> > platform, CMCI/Threshold Interrupt and POLL share the same event handler
> > - machine_check_poll(). However, on the AMD platform, they have a
> > separate event handler. amd_threshold_interrupt() is used for handling
> > Threshold Interrupt event. And machine_check_poll() has been used for
> > polling other events.
> >
> > This patch introduces a new flag MCJ_INTERRUPT that will be used to
> > separate CMCI/Threshold Interrupt and POLL handler in mce-inject.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com <mailto:slaoub@gmail.com>>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h              |    5 +++--
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/threshold.c  |    1 +
> >  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> 
> We currently test decoding logic on AMD by performing mce injections 
> using edac/mce_amd_inj.c,
> So instead of modifying mce-inject just for testing 
> amd_threshold_interrupt(),
> Why not put it under mce_amd_inj? (It's AMD specific code anyway)
> 
Until now, edac/mce_amd_inj.c is just used for testing EDAC decoding
logic on AMD. But there are some tools that can be also used to decode
machine check error information, such as `rasdaemon' and `mcelog'. If
we want to use mce_amd_inj.c for error injection, we may need to move
it.

In addition, EDAC decoding logic does not need to access machine check 
specific `MSRs', so edac/mce_amd_inj.c can work well for error
injection.

Finally, amd_threshold_interrupt is AMD specific code,
intel_threshold_interrupt is also Intel specific code.

thx!
cyc