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A long time ago, Linux cleared IA32_MCG_STATUS at the very end of machine
check processing.
Then, some fancy recovery and IST manipulation was added in:
d4812e169de4 ("x86, mce: Get rid of TIF_MCE_NOTIFY and associated mce tricks")
and clearing IA32_MCG_STATUS was pulled earlier in the function.
Next change moved the actual recovery out of do_machine_check() and
just used task_work_add() to schedule it later (before returning to the
user):
5567d11c21a1 ("x86/mce: Send #MC singal from task work")
Most recently the fancy IST footwork was removed as no longer needed:
b052df3da821 ("x86/entry: Get rid of ist_begin/end_non_atomic()")
At this point there is no reason remaining to clear IA32_MCG_STATUS early.
It can move back to the very end of the function.
Also move sync_core(). The comments for this function say that it should
only be called when instructions have been changed/re-mapped. Recovery
for an instruction fetch may change the physical address. But that
doesn't happen until the scheduled work runs (which could be on another
CPU).
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Reported-by: Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200824221237.5397-1-tony.luck@intel.com
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