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x86/mce: Delay clearing IA32_MCG_STATUS to the end of do_machine_check()
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A long time ago, Linux cleared IA32_MCG_STATUS at the very end of machine
check processing.

Then, some fancy recovery and IST manipulation was added in:

  d4812e1 ("x86, mce: Get rid of TIF_MCE_NOTIFY and associated mce tricks")

and clearing IA32_MCG_STATUS was pulled earlier in the function.

Next change moved the actual recovery out of do_machine_check() and
just used task_work_add() to schedule it later (before returning to the
user):

  5567d11 ("x86/mce: Send #MC singal from task work")

Most recently the fancy IST footwork was removed as no longer needed:

  b052df3 ("x86/entry: Get rid of ist_begin/end_non_atomic()")

At this point there is no reason remaining to clear IA32_MCG_STATUS early.
It can move back to the very end of the function.

Also move sync_core(). The comments for this function say that it should
only be called when instructions have been changed/re-mapped. Recovery
for an instruction fetch may change the physical address. But that
doesn't happen until the scheduled work runs (which could be on another
CPU).

 [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Reported-by: Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200824221237.5397-1-tony.luck@intel.com
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Tony Luck authored and Borislav Petkov committed Aug 26, 2020
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9 changes: 4 additions & 5 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
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Expand Up @@ -1190,6 +1190,7 @@ static void kill_me_maybe(struct callback_head *cb)

if (!memory_failure(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags)) {
set_mce_nospec(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, p->mce_whole_page);
sync_core();
return;
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1330,12 +1331,8 @@ noinstr void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (worst > 0)
irq_work_queue(&mce_irq_work);

mce_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS, 0);

sync_core();

if (worst != MCE_AR_SEVERITY && !kill_it)
return;
goto out;

/* Fault was in user mode and we need to take some action */
if ((m.cs & 3) == 3) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1364,6 +1361,8 @@ noinstr void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
mce_panic("Failed kernel mode recovery", &m, msg);
}
}
out:
mce_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS, 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_machine_check);

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