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Commit d90167a9 authored by Ashok Raj's avatar Ashok Raj Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/mce: Ensure offline CPUs don't participate in rendezvous process



Intel's MCA implementation broadcasts MCEs to all CPUs on the
node. This poses a problem for offlined CPUs which cannot
participate in the rendezvous process:

  Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout: Not all CPUs entered broadcast exception handler
  Kernel Offset: disabled
  Rebooting in 100 seconds..

More specifically, Linux does a soft offline of a CPU when
writing a 0 to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online, which
doesn't prevent the #MC exception from being broadcasted to that
CPU.

Ensure that offline CPUs don't participate in the MCE rendezvous
and clear the RIP valid status bit so that a second MCE won't
cause a shutdown.

Without the patch, mce_start() will increment mce_callin and
wait for all CPUs. Offlined CPUs should avoid participating in
the rendezvous process altogether.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
[ Massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449742346-21470-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 6764e5eb
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