From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>,
Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com>,
Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@huawei.com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
"Yazen Ghannam" <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
"Alison Schofield" <alison.schofield@intel.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>, <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] acpi/ghes: Process CXL Component Events
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:50:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66313d869fff9_1c68422945a@iweiny-mobl.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZjE5O87IxxMAoaFz@agluck-desk3>
Tony Luck wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 08:34:00PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > @@ -707,6 +805,18 @@ static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
> > }
> > else if (guid_equal(sec_type, &CPER_SEC_PROC_ARM)) {
> > queued = ghes_handle_arm_hw_error(gdata, sev, sync);
> > + } else if (guid_equal(sec_type, &CPER_SEC_CXL_GEN_MEDIA_GUID)) {
> > + struct cxl_cper_event_rec *rec = acpi_hest_get_payload(gdata);
> > +
> > + cxl_cper_post_event(CXL_CPER_EVENT_GEN_MEDIA, rec);
> > + } else if (guid_equal(sec_type, &CPER_SEC_CXL_DRAM_GUID)) {
> > + struct cxl_cper_event_rec *rec = acpi_hest_get_payload(gdata);
> > +
> > + cxl_cper_post_event(CXL_CPER_EVENT_DRAM, rec);
> > + } else if (guid_equal(sec_type, &CPER_SEC_CXL_MEM_MODULE_GUID)) {
> > + struct cxl_cper_event_rec *rec = acpi_hest_get_payload(gdata);
> > +
> > + cxl_cper_post_event(CXL_CPER_EVENT_MEM_MODULE, rec);
> > } else {
> > void *err = acpi_hest_get_payload(gdata);
>
> You pass "rec" to cxl_cper_post_event() in all these cases for later
> processing in context where you can sleep to get locks. But that's
> just a pointer somewhere into the "gdata" error record received from
> BIOS.
>
> What's the lifetime of that record?
>
The lifetime is contained to the cxl_cper_post_envent() which does not
block. The kfifo_put() copies the data to a cxl specific record to be
used by the CXL thread for processing.
>
> Can it be re-used/overwritten
> before that other kernel thread gets around to looking at it?
Yes because the CXL kernel thread has its own copy in the kfifo.
Ira
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-30 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-27 3:33 [PATCH v4 0/2] efi/cxl-cper: Report CXL CPER events through tracing Ira Weiny
2024-04-27 3:34 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] acpi/ghes: Process CXL Component Events Ira Weiny
2024-04-29 16:24 ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-04-29 16:47 ` Ira Weiny
2024-04-30 18:32 ` Tony Luck
2024-04-30 18:50 ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2024-04-30 19:33 ` Luck, Tony
2024-05-01 6:36 ` Smita Koralahalli
2024-05-01 17:26 ` Ira Weiny
2024-04-27 3:34 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] cxl/pci: Process CPER events Ira Weiny
2024-04-29 16:25 ` Jonathan Cameron
2024-05-01 6:38 ` Smita Koralahalli
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