x86/mce: Provide a lockless memory pool to save error records
printk() is not safe to use in MCE context. Add a lockless
memory allocator pool to save error records in MCE context.
Those records will be issued later, in a printk-safe context.
The idea is inspired by the APEI/GHES driver.
We're very conservative and allocate only two pages for it but
since we're going to use those pages throughout the system's
lifetime, we allocate them statically to avoid early boot time
allocation woes.
Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
[ Rewrite. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439396985-12812-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index b3a1a5d..06dbb5d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -955,6 +955,7 @@
config X86_MCE
bool "Machine Check / overheating reporting"
+ select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
default y
---help---
Machine Check support allows the processor to notify the