Re: Dell XPS13: MCE (Hardware Error) reported

[Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 07:58:31AM -0800, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> Looks like we don't need a return value from therm_throt_process(),
> we can fix that as void as well.

Right you are, here's v2:

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>From a8151fa6f18c2605eb7972061234f05e79b372c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 12:07:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] x86/MCE/therm_throt: Do not log a fake MCE for a thermal event

We log a fake bank 128 MCE to note that we're handling a CPU thermal
event. However, this confuses people into thinking that their hardware
generates MCEs. Hijacking MCA for logging thermal events is a gross
misuse anyway and it should've been done in the first place. And besides
we have other means for dealing with thermal events which are much more
suitable.

So let's kill the MCE logging part.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
---

v2: Ashok: make therm_throt_process() void.

 arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h               |  6 ------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c         | 25 -------------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c | 30 +++++++++++-------------------
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
index 5132f2a6c0a2..a09ed05725c2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@
 
 #define MCE_OVERFLOW 0		/* bit 0 in flags means overflow */
 
-/* Software defined banks */
-#define MCE_EXTENDED_BANK	128
-#define MCE_THERMAL_BANK	(MCE_EXTENDED_BANK + 0)
-
 #define MCE_LOG_LEN 32
 #define MCE_LOG_SIGNATURE	"MACHINECHECK"
 
@@ -306,8 +302,6 @@ extern void (*deferred_error_int_vector)(void);
 
 void intel_init_thermal(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);
 
-void mce_log_therm_throt_event(__u64 status);
-
 /* Interrupt Handler for core thermal thresholds */
 extern int (*platform_thermal_notify)(__u64 msr_val);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 00ef43233e03..6eef6fde0f02 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1331,31 +1331,6 @@ static void mce_process_work(struct work_struct *dummy)
 	mce_gen_pool_process();
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL
-/***
- * mce_log_therm_throt_event - Logs the thermal throttling event to mcelog
- * @cpu: The CPU on which the event occurred.
- * @status: Event status information
- *
- * This function should be called by the thermal interrupt after the
- * event has been processed and the decision was made to log the event
- * further.
- *
- * The status parameter will be saved to the 'status' field of 'struct mce'
- * and historically has been the register value of the
- * MSR_IA32_THERMAL_STATUS (Intel) msr.
- */
-void mce_log_therm_throt_event(__u64 status)
-{
-	struct mce m;
-
-	mce_setup(&m);
-	m.bank = MCE_THERMAL_BANK;
-	m.status = status;
-	mce_log(&m);
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL */
-
 /*
  * Periodic polling timer for "silent" machine check errors.  If the
  * poller finds an MCE, poll 2x faster.  When the poller finds no more
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
index 465aca8be009..85469f84c921 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * Maintains a counter in /sys that keeps track of the number of thermal
  * events, such that the user knows how bad the thermal problem might be
- * (since the logging to syslog and mcelog is rate limited).
+ * (since the logging to syslog is rate limited).
  *
  * Author: Dmitriy Zavin (dmitriyz@google.com)
  *
@@ -141,13 +141,8 @@ static struct attribute_group thermal_attr_group = {
  * IRQ has been acknowledged.
  *
  * It will take care of rate limiting and printing messages to the syslog.
- *
- * Returns: 0 : Event should NOT be further logged, i.e. still in
- *              "timeout" from previous log message.
- *          1 : Event should be logged further, and a message has been
- *              printed to the syslog.
  */
-static int therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int event, int level)
+static void therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int event, int level)
 {
 	struct _thermal_state *state;
 	unsigned int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
@@ -162,16 +157,16 @@ static int therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int event, int level)
 		else if (event == POWER_LIMIT_EVENT)
 			state = &pstate->core_power_limit;
 		else
-			 return 0;
+			return;
 	} else if (level == PACKAGE_LEVEL) {
 		if (event == THERMAL_THROTTLING_EVENT)
 			state = &pstate->package_throttle;
 		else if (event == POWER_LIMIT_EVENT)
 			state = &pstate->package_power_limit;
 		else
-			return 0;
+			return;
 	} else
-		return 0;
+		return;
 
 	old_event = state->new_event;
 	state->new_event = new_event;
@@ -181,7 +176,7 @@ static int therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int event, int level)
 
 	if (time_before64(now, state->next_check) &&
 			state->count != state->last_count)
-		return 0;
+		return;
 
 	state->next_check = now + CHECK_INTERVAL;
 	state->last_count = state->count;
@@ -193,16 +188,14 @@ static int therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int event, int level)
 				this_cpu,
 				level == CORE_LEVEL ? "Core" : "Package",
 				state->count);
-		return 1;
+		return;
 	}
 	if (old_event) {
 		if (event == THERMAL_THROTTLING_EVENT)
 			pr_info("CPU%d: %s temperature/speed normal\n", this_cpu,
 				level == CORE_LEVEL ? "Core" : "Package");
-		return 1;
+		return;
 	}
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static int thresh_event_valid(int level, int event)
@@ -365,10 +358,9 @@ static void intel_thermal_interrupt(void)
 	/* Check for violation of core thermal thresholds*/
 	notify_thresholds(msr_val);
 
-	if (therm_throt_process(msr_val & THERM_STATUS_PROCHOT,
-				THERMAL_THROTTLING_EVENT,
-				CORE_LEVEL) != 0)
-		mce_log_therm_throt_event(msr_val);
+	therm_throt_process(msr_val & THERM_STATUS_PROCHOT,
+			    THERMAL_THROTTLING_EVENT,
+			    CORE_LEVEL);
 
 	if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PLN) && int_pln_enable)
 		therm_throt_process(msr_val & THERM_STATUS_POWER_LIMIT,
-- 
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