x86/mce: Make the MCE notifier a blocking one

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commit 0dc9c639e6 upstream.

The NFIT MCE handler callback (for handling media errors on NVDIMMs)
takes a mutex to add the location of a memory error to a list. But since
the notifier call chain for machine checks (x86_mce_decoder_chain) is
atomic, we get a lockdep splat like:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:620
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4, name: kworker/0:0
  [..]
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack
   ___might_sleep
   __might_sleep
   mutex_lock_nested
   ? __lock_acquire
   nfit_handle_mce
   notifier_call_chain
   atomic_notifier_call_chain
   ? atomic_notifier_call_chain
   mce_gen_pool_process

Convert the notifier to a blocking one which gets to run only in process
context.

Boris: remove the notifier call in atomic context in print_mce(). For
now, let's print the MCE on the atomic path so that we can make sure
they go out and get logged at least.

Fixes: 6839a6d96f ("nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error")
Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170411224457.24777-1-vishal.l.verma@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Vishal Verma 2017-04-18 20:42:35 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-genpool.c

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