[PATCH v7 8/9] powerpc/mce: Add sysctl control for recovery action on MCE.

[Michael Ellerman]

Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> From: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Introduce recovery action for recovered memory errors (MCEs). There are
> soft memory errors like SLB Multihit, which can be a result of a bad
> hardware OR software BUG. Kernel can easily recover from these soft errors
> by flushing SLB contents. After the recovery kernel can still continue to
> function without any issue. But in some scenario's we may keep getting
> these soft errors until the root cause is fixed. To be able to analyze and
> find the root cause, best way is to gather enough data and system state at
> the time of MCE. Hence this patch introduces a sysctl knob where user can
> decide either to continue after recovery or panic the kernel to capture the
> dump.

I'm not convinced we want this.

As we've discovered it's often not possible to reconstruct what happened
based on a dump anyway.

The key thing you need is the content of the SLB and that's not included
in a dump.

So I think we should dump the SLB content when we get the MCE (which
this series does) and any other useful info, and then if we can recover
we should.

cheers