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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2017-07-19 09:59:11 +0300
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-08-31 07:26:04 +0300
commit6fcd6baa90aeec9dcbe30786e15c125bf50503b2 (patch)
treebd9c65b1eb725f7895eeb0c8bd44d9ef45c834f9 /arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
parentb746e3e01e70d23ef53dcde1203ab78a1b7ac514 (diff)
downloadlinux-6fcd6baa90aeec9dcbe30786e15c125bf50503b2.tar.xz
powerpc/powernv: Use kernel crash path for machine checks
There are quite a few machine check exceptions that can be caused by kernel bugs. To make debugging easier, use the kernel crash path in cases of synchronous machine checks that occur in kernel mode, if that would not result in the machine going straight to panic or crash dump. There is a downside here that die()ing the process in kernel mode can still leave the system unstable. panic_on_oops will always force the system to fail-stop, so systems where that behaviour is important will still do the right thing. As a test, when triggering an i-side 0111b error (ifetch from foreign address) in kernel mode process context on POWER9, the kernel currently dies quickly like this: Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered] NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000 Initiator: CPU Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)] [ 127.426651616,0] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error. Effective[ 127.426693712,3] OPAL: Reboot requested due to Platform error. address: ffff000000000000 opal: Reboot type 1 not supported Kernel panic - not syncing: PowerNV Unrecovered Machine Check CPU: 56 PID: 4425 Comm: syscall Tainted: G M 4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #35 Call Trace: [ 128.017988928,4] IPMI: BUG: Dropping ESEL on the floor due to buggy/mising code in OPAL for this BMC Rebooting in 10 seconds.. Trying to free IRQ 496 from IRQ context! After this patch, the process is killed and the kernel continues with this message, which gives enough information to identify the offending branch (i.e., with CFAR): Severe Machine check interrupt [Not recovered] NIP [ffff000000000000]: 0xffff000000000000 Initiator: CPU Error type: Real address [Instruction fetch (foreign)] Effective address: ffff000000000000 Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV Modules linked in: iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 ... CPU: 22 PID: 4436 Comm: syscall Tainted: G M 4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty #36 task: c000000932300000 task.stack: c000000932380000 NIP: ffff000000000000 LR: 00000000217706a4 CTR: ffff000000000000 REGS: c00000000fc8fd80 TRAP: 0200 Tainted: G M (4.12.0-rc1-13857-ga4700a261072-dirty) MSR: 90000000001c1003 <SF,HV,ME,RI,LE> CR: 24000484 XER: 20000000 CFAR: c000000000004c80 DAR: 0000000021770a90 DSISR: 0a000000 SOFTE: 1 GPR00: 0000000000001ebe 00007fffce4818b0 0000000021797f00 0000000000000000 GPR04: 00007fff8007ac24 0000000044000484 0000000000004000 00007fff801405e8 GPR08: 900000000280f033 0000000024000484 0000000000000000 0000000000000030 GPR12: 9000000000001003 00007fff801bc370 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR28: 00007fff801b0000 0000000000000000 00000000217707a0 00007fffce481918 NIP [ffff000000000000] 0xffff000000000000 LR [00000000217706a4] 0x217706a4 Call Trace: Instruction dump: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index dd2c85f0bd8d..e1431800bfb9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ int is_fadump_boot_memory_area(u64 addr, ulong size)
return (addr + size) > RMA_START && addr <= fw_dump.boot_memory_size;
}
+int should_fadump_crash(void)
+{
+ if (!fw_dump.dump_registered || !fw_dump.fadumphdr_addr)
+ return 0;
+ return 1;
+}
+
int is_fadump_active(void)
{
return fw_dump.dump_active;
@@ -518,7 +525,7 @@ void crash_fadump(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *str)
struct fadump_crash_info_header *fdh = NULL;
int old_cpu, this_cpu;
- if (!fw_dump.dump_registered || !fw_dump.fadumphdr_addr)
+ if (!should_fadump_crash())
return;
/*