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<title>Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2014-06-13T04:23:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-13T04:23:38+00:00</published>
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "Kbuild changes for v3.16-rc1:

   - cross-compilation fix so that cc-option is testing the right
     compiler
   - Fix for make defconfig all
   - Using relative paths to the object and source directory where
     possible, plus fixes for the fallout of the change
   - several cleanups in the Makefiles and scripts

  The powerpc fix is from today, because it was only discovered
  recently.  The rest has been in linux-next for some time"

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  powerpc: Avoid circular dependency with zImage.%
  kbuild: create include/config directory in scripts/kconfig/Makefile
  kbuild: do not create include/linux directory
  Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command line options
  kbuild: do not add "selinux" to subdir- twice
  um: Fix for relative objtree when generating x86 headers
  kbuild: Use relative path when building in a subdir of the source tree
  kbuild: Use relative path when building in the source tree
  kbuild: Use relative path for $(objtree)
  firmware: Use $(quote) in the Makefile
  firmware: Simplify directory creation
  kbuild: trivial - fix comment block indent
  kbuild: trivial - remove trailing spaces
  kbuild: support simultaneous "make %config" and "make all"
  kbuild: move extra gcc checks to scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "Kbuild changes for v3.16-rc1:

   - cross-compilation fix so that cc-option is testing the right
     compiler
   - Fix for make defconfig all
   - Using relative paths to the object and source directory where
     possible, plus fixes for the fallout of the change
   - several cleanups in the Makefiles and scripts

  The powerpc fix is from today, because it was only discovered
  recently.  The rest has been in linux-next for some time"

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  powerpc: Avoid circular dependency with zImage.%
  kbuild: create include/config directory in scripts/kconfig/Makefile
  kbuild: do not create include/linux directory
  Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command line options
  kbuild: do not add "selinux" to subdir- twice
  um: Fix for relative objtree when generating x86 headers
  kbuild: Use relative path when building in a subdir of the source tree
  kbuild: Use relative path when building in the source tree
  kbuild: Use relative path for $(objtree)
  firmware: Use $(quote) in the Makefile
  firmware: Simplify directory creation
  kbuild: trivial - fix comment block indent
  kbuild: trivial - remove trailing spaces
  kbuild: support simultaneous "make %config" and "make all"
  kbuild: move extra gcc checks to scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2014-06-13T03:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-13T03:11:38+00:00</published>
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Pull more powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here are the remaining bits I was mentioning earlier.  Mostly bug
  fixes and new selftests from Michael (yay !).  He also removed the WSP
  platform and A2 core support which were dead before release, so less
  clutter.

  One little "feature" I snuck in is the doorbell IPI support for
  non-virtualized P8 which speeds up IPIs significantly between threads
  of a core"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (34 commits)
  powerpc/book3s: Fix some ABIv2 issues in machine check code
  powerpc/book3s: Fix guest MC delivery mechanism to avoid soft lockups in guest.
  powerpc/book3s: Increment the mce counter during machine_check_early call.
  powerpc/book3s: Add stack overflow check in machine check handler.
  powerpc/book3s: Fix machine check handling for unhandled errors
  powerpc/eeh: Dump PE location code
  powerpc/powernv: Enable POWER8 doorbell IPIs
  powerpc/cpuidle: Only clear LPCR decrementer wakeup bit on fast sleep entry
  powerpc/powernv: Fix killed EEH event
  powerpc: fix typo 'CONFIG_PMAC'
  powerpc: fix typo 'CONFIG_PPC_CPU'
  powerpc/powernv: Don't escalate non-existing frozen PE
  powerpc/eeh: Report frozen parent PE prior to child PE
  powerpc/eeh: Clear frozen state for child PE
  powerpc/powernv: Reduce panic timeout from 180s to 10s
  powerpc/xmon: avoid format string leaking to printk
  selftests/powerpc: Add tests of PMU EBBs
  selftests/powerpc: Add support for skipping tests
  selftests/powerpc: Put the test in a separate process group
  selftests/powerpc: Fix instruction loop for ABIv2 (LE)
  ...
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Pull more powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
 "Here are the remaining bits I was mentioning earlier.  Mostly bug
  fixes and new selftests from Michael (yay !).  He also removed the WSP
  platform and A2 core support which were dead before release, so less
  clutter.

  One little "feature" I snuck in is the doorbell IPI support for
  non-virtualized P8 which speeds up IPIs significantly between threads
  of a core"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (34 commits)
  powerpc/book3s: Fix some ABIv2 issues in machine check code
  powerpc/book3s: Fix guest MC delivery mechanism to avoid soft lockups in guest.
  powerpc/book3s: Increment the mce counter during machine_check_early call.
  powerpc/book3s: Add stack overflow check in machine check handler.
  powerpc/book3s: Fix machine check handling for unhandled errors
  powerpc/eeh: Dump PE location code
  powerpc/powernv: Enable POWER8 doorbell IPIs
  powerpc/cpuidle: Only clear LPCR decrementer wakeup bit on fast sleep entry
  powerpc/powernv: Fix killed EEH event
  powerpc: fix typo 'CONFIG_PMAC'
  powerpc: fix typo 'CONFIG_PPC_CPU'
  powerpc/powernv: Don't escalate non-existing frozen PE
  powerpc/eeh: Report frozen parent PE prior to child PE
  powerpc/eeh: Clear frozen state for child PE
  powerpc/powernv: Reduce panic timeout from 180s to 10s
  powerpc/xmon: avoid format string leaking to printk
  selftests/powerpc: Add tests of PMU EBBs
  selftests/powerpc: Add support for skipping tests
  selftests/powerpc: Put the test in a separate process group
  selftests/powerpc: Fix instruction loop for ABIv2 (LE)
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-06-13T02:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-13T02:42:15+00:00</published>
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Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Second round of scheduler changes:
   - try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski
   - continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas
     Pitre
   - misc fixes and enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio()
  sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
  sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu()
  sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread
  sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups
  cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle
  sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...)
  sched: Rename capacity related flags
  sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups
  sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power"
  sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity
  sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage
  sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity"
  sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats'
  sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
  sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee()
  sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing
  sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b-&gt;quota/period
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Pull more scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Second round of scheduler changes:
   - try-to-wakeup and IPI reduction speedups, from Andy Lutomirski
   - continued power scheduling cleanups and refactorings, from Nicolas
     Pitre
   - misc fixes and enhancements"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Delete extraneous extern for to_ratio()
  sched/idle: Optimize try-to-wake-up IPI
  sched/idle: Simplify wake_up_idle_cpu()
  sched/idle: Clear polling before descheduling the idle thread
  sched, trace: Add a tracepoint for IPI-less remote wakeups
  cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle
  sched: Remove redundant assignment to "rt_rq" in update_curr_rt(...)
  sched: Rename capacity related flags
  sched: Final power vs. capacity cleanups
  sched: Remove remaining dubious usage of "power"
  sched: Let 'struct sched_group_power' care about CPU capacity
  sched/fair: Disambiguate existing/remaining "capacity" usage
  sched/fair: Change "has_capacity" to "has_free_capacity"
  sched/fair: Remove "power" from 'struct numa_stats'
  sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
  sched/fair: Use time_after() in record_wakee()
  sched/balancing: Reduce the rate of needless idle load balancing
  sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some cfs_b-&gt;quota/period
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 &lt; v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 &lt; v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge commit '3cf2f34' into sched/core, to fix build error</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T11:46:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-12T11:46:25+00:00</published>
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Fix this dependency on the locking tree's smp_mb*() API changes:

  kernel/sched/idle.c:247:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_mb__after_atomic’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix this dependency on the locking tree's smp_mb*() API changes:

  kernel/sched/idle.c:247:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_mb__after_atomic’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Avoid circular dependency with zImage.%</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T08:07:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Marek</name>
<email>mmarek@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T11:53:48+00:00</published>
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The rule to create the final images uses a zImage.% pattern.
Unfortunately, this also matches the names of the zImage.*.lds linker
scripts, which appear as a dependency of the final images. This somehow
worked when $(srctree) used to be an absolute path, but now the pattern
matches too much. List only the images from $(image-y) as the target of
the rule, to avoid the circular dependency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Qiu &lt;qiudayu@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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The rule to create the final images uses a zImage.% pattern.
Unfortunately, this also matches the names of the zImage.*.lds linker
scripts, which appear as a dependency of the final images. This somehow
worked when $(srctree) used to be an absolute path, but now the pattern
matches too much. List only the images from $(image-y) as the target of
the rule, to avoid the circular dependency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Qiu &lt;qiudayu@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3s: Fix some ABIv2 issues in machine check code</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T23:41:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T23:08:37+00:00</published>
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Commit 2749a2f26a7c (powerpc/book3s: Fix machine check handling for
unhandled errors) introduced a few ABIv2 issues.

We can maintain ABIv1 and ABIv2 compatibility by branching to the
function rather than the dot symbol.

Fixes: 2749a2f26a7c ("powerpc/book3s: Fix machine check handling for unhandled errors")
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Commit 2749a2f26a7c (powerpc/book3s: Fix machine check handling for
unhandled errors) introduced a few ABIv2 issues.

We can maintain ABIv1 and ABIv2 compatibility by branching to the
function rather than the dot symbol.

Fixes: 2749a2f26a7c ("powerpc/book3s: Fix machine check handling for unhandled errors")
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3s: Fix guest MC delivery mechanism to avoid soft lockups in guest.</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T09:15:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Salgaonkar</name>
<email>mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T08:48:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=74845bc2fa9c0e6b218821cd4e1eb7a552d3e503'/>
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Currently we forward MCEs to guest which have been recovered by guest.
And for unhandled errors we do not deliver the MCE to guest. It looks like
with no support of FWNMI in qemu, guest just panics whenever we deliver the
recovered MCEs to guest. Also, the existig code used to return to host for
unhandled errors which was casuing guest to hang with soft lockups inside
guest and makes it difficult to recover guest instance.

This patch now forwards all fatal MCEs to guest causing guest to crash/panic.
And, for recovered errors we just go back to normal functioning of guest
instead of returning to host. This fixes soft lockup issues in guest.
This patch also fixes an issue where guest MCE events were not logged to
host console.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Currently we forward MCEs to guest which have been recovered by guest.
And for unhandled errors we do not deliver the MCE to guest. It looks like
with no support of FWNMI in qemu, guest just panics whenever we deliver the
recovered MCEs to guest. Also, the existig code used to return to host for
unhandled errors which was casuing guest to hang with soft lockups inside
guest and makes it difficult to recover guest instance.

This patch now forwards all fatal MCEs to guest causing guest to crash/panic.
And, for recovered errors we just go back to normal functioning of guest
instead of returning to host. This fixes soft lockup issues in guest.
This patch also fixes an issue where guest MCE events were not logged to
host console.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/book3s: Increment the mce counter during machine_check_early call.</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T09:15:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mahesh Salgaonkar</name>
<email>mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T08:48:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e6654d5b4259317be82b06cf9218f82abec8c8e7'/>
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We don't see MCE counter getting increased in /proc/interrupts which gives
false impression of no MCE occurred even when there were MCE events.
The machine check early handling was added for PowerKVM and we missed to
increment the MCE count in the early handler.

We also increment mce counters in the machine_check_exception call, but
in most cases where we handle the error hypervisor never reaches there
unless its fatal and we want to crash. Only during fatal situation we may
see double increment of mce count. We need to fix that. But for
now it always good to have some count increased instead of zero.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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We don't see MCE counter getting increased in /proc/interrupts which gives
false impression of no MCE occurred even when there were MCE events.
The machine check early handling was added for PowerKVM and we missed to
increment the MCE count in the early handler.

We also increment mce counters in the machine_check_exception call, but
in most cases where we handle the error hypervisor never reaches there
unless its fatal and we want to crash. Only during fatal situation we may
see double increment of mce count. We need to fix that. But for
now it always good to have some count increased instead of zero.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>powerpc/book3s: Add stack overflow check in machine check handler.</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T09:15:13+00:00</updated>
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<name>Mahesh Salgaonkar</name>
<email>mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T08:48:02+00:00</published>
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Currently machine check handler does not check for stack overflow for
nested machine check. If we hit another MCE while inside the machine check
handler repeatedly from same address then we get into risk of stack
overflow which can cause huge memory corruption. This patch limits the
nested MCE level to 4 and panic when we cross level 4.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Currently machine check handler does not check for stack overflow for
nested machine check. If we hit another MCE while inside the machine check
handler repeatedly from same address then we get into risk of stack
overflow which can cause huge memory corruption. This patch limits the
nested MCE level to 4 and panic when we cross level 4.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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