On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:00:41AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Add Tony and Xunlei in cc.
> On 08/05/19 at 04:58pm, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > This series include two related groups:
> > [1-3/4]: protect nr_cpus from rebooting by broadcast mce
> > [4/4]: improve "kexec -l" robustness against broadcast mce
> >
> > When I tried to fix [1], Thomas raised concern about the nr_cpus'
> > vulnerability
> > to unexpected rebooting by broadcast mce. After analysis, I think only the
> > following first case suffers from the rebooting by broadcast mce. [1-3/4]
> > aims
> > to fix that issue.
>
> I did not understand and read the MCE details, but we previously had a
> MCE problem, Xunlei fixed in below commit:
> commit 5bc329503e8191c91c4c40836f062ef771d8ba83
> Author: Xunlei Pang <xlp...@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon Mar 13 10:50:19 2017 +0100
>
> x86/mce: Handle broadcasted MCE gracefully with kexec
>
> I wonder if this is same issue or not. Also the old discussion is in
> below thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/753530/
>
> Tony raised similar questions, but I'm not sure if it is still a problem
> or it has been fixed.
>
Xunlei's patch is the precondition of the stability for the case 2: boot up by
"kexec -p nr_cpus="
For case1/3, extra effort is needed.
Thanks,
Pingfan
> >
> > *** Back ground ***
> >
> > On x86 it's required to have all logical CPUs set CR4.MCE=1. Otherwise, a
> > broadcast MCE observing CR4.MCE=0b on any core will shutdown the machine.
> >
> > The option 'nosmt' has already complied with the above rule by Thomas's
> > patch.
> > For detail, refer to 506a66f3748 (Revert "x86/apic: Ignore secondary
> > threads if
> > nosmt=force")
> >
> > But for nr_cpus option, the exposure to broadcast MCE is a little
> > complicated,
> > and can be categorized into three cases.
> >
> > -1. boot up by BIOS. Since no one set CR4.MCE=1, nr_cpus risks rebooting by
> > broadcast MCE.
> >
> > -2. boot up by "kexec -p nr_cpus=". Since the 1st kernel has all cpus'
> > CR4.MCE=1 set before kexec -p, nr_cpus is free of rebooting by broadcast
> > MCE.
> > Furthermore, the crashed kernel's wreckage, including page table and text,
> > is
> > not touched by capture kernel. Hence if MCE event happens on capped cpu,
> > do_machine_check->__mc_check_crashing_cpu() runs smoothly and returns
> > immediately, the capped cpu is still pinned on "halt".
> >
> > -3. boot up by "kexec -l nr_cpus=". As "kexec -p", it is free of rebooting
> > by
> > broadcast MCE. But the 1st kernel's wreckage is discarded and changed. when
> > capped cpus execute do_machine_check(), they may crack the new kernel. But
> > this is not related with broadcast MCE, and need an extra fix.
> >
> > *** Solution ***
> > "nr_cpus" can not follow the same way as "nosmt". Because nr_cpus limits
> > the
> > allocation of percpu area and some other kthread memory, which is critical
> > to
> > cpu hotplug framework. Instead, developing a dedicated SIPI callback
> > make_capped_cpu_stable() for capped cpu, which does not lean on percpu area
> > to
> > work.
> >
> > [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/5/3
> >
> > To: Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> > To: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> > To: x...@kernel.org
> > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw>
> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
> > Cc: Daniel Drake <dr...@endlessm.com>
> > Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun....@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> > Cc: Eric Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com>
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Dave Young <dyo...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: ke...@lists.infradead.org
> >
> > ---
> > Pingfan Liu (4):
> > x86/apic: correct the ENO in generic_processor_info()
> > x86/apic: record capped cpu in generic_processor_info()
> > x86/smp: send capped cpus to a stable state when smp_init()
> > x86/smp: disallow MCE handler on rebooting AP
> >
> > arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h | 1 +
> > arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 3 ++
> > arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 23 ++++++++----
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 7 ++++
> > arch/x86/kernel/smp.c | 8 +++++
> > arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 83
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > kernel/smp.c | 6 ++++
> > 7 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.7.5
> >
>
> Thanks
> Dave
