Similarly to the powernv patch, pseries can recover from and/or print more error details from a recovered machine check if it goes via the kernel crash path rather than panic()ing in the case of MCE in kernel mode.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c index 4923ffe230cf..eeac00160de0 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c @@ -436,19 +436,19 @@ static int recover_mce(struct pt_regs *regs, struct rtas_error_log *err) "be degraded\n"); recovered = 1; - } else if (user_mode(regs) && !is_global_init(current) && - rtas_error_severity(err) == RTAS_SEVERITY_ERROR_SYNC) { - + } else if (rtas_error_severity(err) == RTAS_SEVERITY_ERROR_SYNC) { /* - * If we received a synchronous error when in userspace - * kill the task. Firmware may report details of the fail - * asynchronously, so we can't rely on the target and type - * fields being valid here. + * Firmware may report details of the fail asynchronously, so + * we can't rely on the target and type fields being valid + * here. */ - printk(KERN_ERR "MCE: uncorrectable error, killing task " - "%s:%d\n", current->comm, current->pid); - - _exception(SIGBUS, regs, BUS_MCEERR_AR, regs->nip); + if ((user_mode(regs))) { + printk(KERN_ERR "MCE: uncorrectable error, killing task" + " %s:%d\n", current->comm, current->pid); + _exception(SIGBUS, regs, BUS_MCEERR_AR, regs->nip); + } else { + die("Machine check", regs, SIGBUS); + } recovered = 1; } -- 2.11.0