[Xen-devel] [PATCH] 0/3: MCA/MCE correctable error handling

["Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Keir,

This is a full patchset you requested last week :-)
This patchset is for handling of correctable errors only. The other part 
related to the uncorrectable errors will be another patchset.

All patches apply against changeset 15772 (staging tree) in
the given order.


Patch 1/3:  MSR_CAP never reports a negative count of available 
error-reporting banks. Thus make nr_mce_banks unsigned.
While there, do some other minor indentation cleanups.

Patch 2/3:  Extend arch_shared_info with machine check structure.
This will be used to transfer machine check information to the guest
via a shared page. The guest will be notified via an event on correctable
errors and via NMI on uncorrectable errors. Former is patch 3/3, latter one
will be another patchset.
The structure is designed to be as small and as highly flexible as possible
at the same time.


Patch 3/3:  This introduces an architecture dependent VIRQ_MCA
and extends the polling service routine to notify the Dom0
via an event. The polling frequency is initially every 15 seconds. The 
frequency adjusts automatically at runtime. No error means, lower frequency,
correctable error means, increase frequency. It also uses hw threshold 
register (MSR_K8_MC4_MISC) to detect correctable errors between two polls.
If the Dom0 ignores the notification (= Dom0 has no handler for VIRQ_MCA 
registered), then Xen dumps the machine check information in a format,
mcelog can parse.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>


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