x86/mce: Fix siginfo_t->si_addr value for non-recoverable memory faults
authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:20:47 +0000 (10:20 -0700)
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:20:47 +0000 (10:20 -0700)
commit6751ed65dc6642af64f7b8a440a75563c8aab7ae
tree8736d4c2b3aa00c6a4f39d2e6cba4805720c2874
parent6887a4131da3adaab011613776d865f4bcfb5678
x86/mce: Fix siginfo_t->si_addr value for non-recoverable memory faults

In commit dad1743e5993f1 ("x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine
check recovery if it is safe") we fixed mce_notify_process() to force a
signal to the current process if it was not restartable (RIPV bit not
set in MCG_STATUS). But doing it here means that the process doesn't
get told the virtual address of the fault via siginfo_t->si_addr. This
would prevent application level recovery from the fault.

Make a new MF_MUST_KILL flag bit for memory_failure() et al. to use so
that we will provide the right information with the signal.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.4+
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
include/linux/mm.h
mm/memory-failure.c