[PATCH v3] vmcoreinfo: Track and log recoverable hardware errors

Huang, Kai kai.huang at intel.com
Thu Jul 24 09:21:28 AEST 2025


On Wed, 2025-07-23 at 21:00 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 08:36:52AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > Basically there are two approaches, from what I understand:
> > 
> > 	1) mark do_machine_check() as noinstr
> 
> do_machine_check is already noinstr. I think you mean mark
> hwerr_log_error_type() noinstr.
> 
> And yes, you can mark it. hwerr_log_error_type() is not that fascinating
> to allow instrumentation for it.

This option doesn't seem to be able to work because IIRC
hwerr_log_error_type() calls ktime_get_real_seconds() which is not
'noinstr'.

> 
> > 	2) Move hwerr_log_error_type() earlier inside the
> > 	instrumentation_begin() area.
> 
> Or you can do that - that looks like less of an effort btw.


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