Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86, ras: Add new infrastructure for machine check fixup tables

[Andy Lutomirski]

On 11/06/2015 12:57 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> Copy the existing page fault fixup mechanisms to create a new table
> to be used when fixing machine checks. Note:
> 1) At this time we only provide a macro to annotate assembly code
> 2) We assume all fixups will in code builtin to the kernel.

Shouldn't the first step be to fixup failures during user memory access?

> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h        |  7 +++++++
>   arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h    |  1 +
>   arch/x86/mm/extable.c             | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>   include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |  6 ++++++
>   include/linux/module.h            |  1 +
>   kernel/extable.c                  | 14 ++++++++++++++
>   6 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
> index 189679aba703..f2fa7973f18f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/asm.h
> @@ -58,6 +58,13 @@
>   	.long (to) - . + 0x7ffffff0 ;				\
>   	.popsection
>
> +# define _ASM_MCEXTABLE(from, to)				\
> +	.pushsection "__mcex_table", "a" ;			\
> +	.balign 8 ;						\
> +	.long (from) - . ;					\
> +	.long (to) - . ;					\
> +	.popsection
> +

This does something really weird to rax.  (Also, what happens on 32-bit 
kernels?  There's no bit 63.)

Please at least document it clearly.

--Andy
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