[PATCH] x86, mce: reset kernel for no-match exception errors

From: Jin Dongming
Date: Thu Aug 27 2009 - 04:41:18 EST


The last case of severity table is used for no match exception error.
Maybe such kind of error could not happen. But I think when the error
really happened, the kernel should be reset. Because such error is
unknown and unexpected. So I make this patch for fixing this problem.

This patch is based on tip/x86/mce.

Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
index bc35a07..092755b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static struct severity {
"Action optional with lost events", SER),
BITSET(MCI_STATUS_UC|MCI_STATUS_OVER, PANIC, "Overflowed uncorrected"),
BITSET(MCI_STATUS_UC, UC, "Uncorrected"),
- BITSET(0, SOME, "No match") /* always matches. keep at end */
+ BITSET(0, PANIC, "Unknown Error") /* always matches. keep at end */
};

/*
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 2c3bcd1..cc6e9cb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -245,6 +245,12 @@ static void mce_panic(char *msg, struct mce *final, char *exp)
struct mce *m = &mcelog.entry[i];
if (!(m->status & MCI_STATUS_VAL))
continue;
+ /*
+ * When no-match error happened, it is a corrected error and
+ * logged as final one. Prevents it from being printed twice.
+ */
+ if (final && !memcmp(m, final, sizeof(struct mce)))
+ continue;
if (!(m->status & MCI_STATUS_UC))
print_mce(m);
}
--
1.6.2.2

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