x86/mce: Prevent duplicate error records
A legitimate use case of the MCA infrastructure is to have the firmware log all uncorrectable errors and also, have the OS see all correctable errors. The uncorrectable, UCNA errors are usually configured to be reported through an SMI. CMCI, which is the correctable error reporting interrupt, uses SMI too and having both enabled, leads to unnecessary overhead. So what ends up happening is, people disable CMCI in the wild and leave on only the UCNA SMI. When CMCI is disabled, the MCA infrastructure resorts to polling the MCA banks. If a MCA MSR is shared between the logical threads, one error ends up getting logged multiple times as the polling runs on every logical thread. Therefore, introduce locking on the Intel side of the polling routine to prevent such duplicate error records from appearing. Based on a patch by Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515143225.GC4090740@cathedrallabs.org
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