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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/mce: Change default mce logger to check mce->handled
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:27:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200213222750.GC21107@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200213170820.GN31799@zn.tnic>

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 06:08:20PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> I definitely like where this is going.

Thanks.

> Another thing: what do we do if we have to deviate from that sequantial
> path through the notifiers? What if notifier A gets to look at an error,
> then another notifier B needs to look at it and then the information
> obtained from the second notifier B, is needed by the first notifier A
> again to inspect the error a *second* time.

That's pretty hard with a chain.  I think folks will have a conniptions
if we invent an error return from a notifier chain function that means
"Go back and start over". Though if we did it would make the "handled"
field useful for functions that didn't want to redo ... they'd just
check if "their" bit in handled was already set.

Still, seems like a terrible idea.

> I don't think there's a case like that now but I'm just playing the
> devil's advocate here. Because a use case like that would break our
> simplistic, sequential assembly line of MCE decoding.

If some driver really wants multiple bites at an error on the
chain it could register more than one handler with different
priorities.  In which case we should have "enum" names for the
highest and lowest priorities so such a driver can go "first"
or "last" (though such a thing would be dependent on whether
some other driver was attempting to add a "first" or "last"
entry on the chain).

-Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-13 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12 20:46 [RFC PATCH 0/5] New way to track mce notifier chain actions Tony Luck
2020-02-12 20:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/mce: Rename "first" function as "early" Tony Luck
2020-02-12 20:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/mce: Convert corrected error collector to use mce notifier Tony Luck
2020-02-12 20:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/mce: Add new "handled" field to "struct mce" Tony Luck
2020-02-13 16:56   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-13 22:09     ` Luck, Tony
2020-02-14  8:50       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-12 20:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/mce: Fix all mce notifiers to update the mce->handled bitmask Tony Luck
2020-02-13 17:03   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-13 22:19     ` Luck, Tony
2020-02-13 22:27       ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-13 23:08         ` Luck, Tony
2020-02-14  9:02           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-14  0:18         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-02-14  8:59       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-12 20:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/mce: Change default mce logger to check mce->handled Tony Luck
2020-02-13 17:08   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-13 22:27     ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2020-02-14  9:05       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-12 23:08 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] New way to track mce notifier chain actions Luck, Tony
2020-02-13  5:52   ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-13  6:09     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-13 16:05       ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-14 22:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] " Tony Luck
2020-02-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] x86/mce: Rename "first" function as "early" Tony Luck
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-02-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] x86/mce: Convert corrected error collector to use mce notifier Tony Luck
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] x86/mce: Convert the CEC to use the MCE notifier tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-02-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/mce: Add new "kflags" field to "struct mce" Tony Luck
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] x86/mce: Add a struct mce.kflags field tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-04-15 18:19       ` Luck, Tony
2020-04-15 18:36         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-15 19:58           ` [PATCH] x86/mce: Drop bogus comment about mce.kflags Luck, Tony
2020-04-17  9:21             ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-04-20  8:06       ` [tip: ras/core] x86/mce: Add a struct mce.kflags field Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-20  8:42         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] x86/mce: Fix all mce notifiers to update the mce->kflags bitmask Tony Luck
2020-04-07  8:21     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-02-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] x86/mce: Change default mce logger to check mce->kflags Tony Luck
2020-04-07 11:10     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:43       ` Luck, Tony
2020-04-07 19:37         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 19:44           ` Luck, Tony
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] x86/mce: Change default MCE " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-02-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] x86/mce: Add mce=print_all option Tony Luck
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-02-14 22:27   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] x86/mce: Drop the EDAC report status checks Tony Luck
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] EDAC: " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2020-04-07 16:34 ` [PATCH 0/9 v3] New way to track mce notifier chain actions Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 1/9] x86/mce/amd, edac: Remove report_gart_errors Borislav Petkov
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 2/9] x86/mce: Rename "first" function as "early" Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 3/9] x86/mce: Convert the CEC to use the MCE notifier Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 4/9] x86/mce: Add a struct mce.kflags field Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 5/9] x86/mce: Fix all mce notifiers to update the mce->kflags bitmask Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 6/9] x86/mce: Change default MCE logger to check mce->kflags Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 7/9] x86/mce: Add mce=print_all option Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 8/9] EDAC: Drop the EDAC report status checks Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 16:34   ` [PATCH 9/9] x86/mce: Fixup exception only for the correct MCEs Borislav Petkov
2020-04-15  9:49     ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2020-04-07 19:53   ` [PATCH 0/9 v3] New way to track mce notifier chain actions Luck, Tony
2020-04-07 19:56     ` Borislav Petkov

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