Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] arm64/ras: support sea error recovery

[Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>]

Hello Xie,


On 9/27/2017 8:50 AM, Xie XiuQi wrote:
> With ARM v8.2 RAS Extension, SEA are usually triggered when memory errors
> are consumed. According to the existing process, errors occurred in the
> kernel, leading to direct panic, if it occurred the user-space, we should
> just kill process.
>
> But there is a class of error, in fact, is not necessary to kill
> process, you can recover and continue to run the process. Such as
> the instruction data corrupted, where the memory page might be
> read-only, which is has not been modified, the disk might have the
> correct data, so you can directly drop the page, ant reload it when
> necessary.
>
> So this patchset is just try to solve such problem: if the error is
> consumed in user-space and the error occurs on a clean page, you can
> directly drop the memory page without killing process.
>
> If the corrupted page is clean, just dropped it and return to user-space
> without side effects. And if corrupted page is dirty, memory_failure()
> will send SIGBUS with code=BUS_MCEERR_AR. While without this patchset,
> do_sea() will just send SIGBUS, so the process was killed in the same place.
>
> Because memory_failure() may sleep, we can not call it directly in SEA
> exception context. So we saved faulting physical address associated with
> a process in the ghes handler and set __TIF_SEA_NOTIFY. When we return
> from SEA exception context and get into do_notify_resume() before the
> process running, we could check it and call memory_failure() to do
> recovery. It's safe, because we are in process context.
>
> In some platform, when SEA triggerred, physical address could be reported
> by memory section or by processor section, so we save address at this two
> place.
For this series - Tested-by: Tyler Baicar <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>

Note that this will probably need to be rebased on top of these patches:

https://patchwork.codeaurora.org/patch/415877/
https://patchwork.codeaurora.org/patch/415879/

With that, the first patch should be able to be removed because the above 
patches already define the ARM error types:

+#define CPER_ARM_CACHE_ERROR            0
+#define CPER_ARM_TLB_ERROR            1
+#define CPER_ARM_BUS_ERROR            2
+#define CPER_ARM_VENDOR_ERROR            3

Thanks,
Tyler

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