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authorAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>2009-09-16 05:50:06 -0400
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2009-09-16 05:50:06 -0400
commitad5fa913991e9e0f122b021e882b0d50051fbdbc (patch)
tree2739314fec4f2f03d8badbc9d95442d1f9c39427 /include/asm-generic/siginfo.h
parenta7420aa54dbf699a5a05feba3c859b6baaa3938c (diff)
HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
Add new SIGBUS codes for reporting machine checks as signals. When the hardware detects an uncorrected ECC error it can trigger these signals. This is needed for telling KVM's qemu about machine checks that happen to guests, so that it can inject them, but might be also useful for other programs. I find it useful in my test programs. This patch merely defines the new types. - Define two new si_codes for SIGBUS. BUS_MCEERR_AO and BUS_MCEERR_AR * BUS_MCEERR_AO is for "Action Optional" machine checks, which means that some corruption has been detected in the background, but nothing has been consumed so far. The program can ignore those if it wants (but most programs would already get killed) * BUS_MCEERR_AR is for "Action Required" machine checks. This happens when corrupted data is consumed or the application ran into an area which has been known to be corrupted earlier. These require immediate action and cannot just returned to. Most programs would kill themselves. - They report the address of the corruption in the user address space in si_addr. - Define a new si_addr_lsb field that reports the extent of the corruption to user space. That's currently always a (small) page. The user application cannot tell where in this page the corruption happened. AK: I plan to write a man page update before anyone asks. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic/siginfo.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/siginfo.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/siginfo.h b/include/asm-generic/siginfo.h
index c840719a8c5..942d30b5aab 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/siginfo.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/siginfo.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
82#ifdef __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO 82#ifdef __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO
83 int _trapno; /* TRAP # which caused the signal */ 83 int _trapno; /* TRAP # which caused the signal */
84#endif 84#endif
85 short _addr_lsb; /* LSB of the reported address */
85 } _sigfault; 86 } _sigfault;
86 87
87 /* SIGPOLL */ 88 /* SIGPOLL */
@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
112#ifdef __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO 113#ifdef __ARCH_SI_TRAPNO
113#define si_trapno _sifields._sigfault._trapno 114#define si_trapno _sifields._sigfault._trapno
114#endif 115#endif
116#define si_addr_lsb _sifields._sigfault._addr_lsb
115#define si_band _sifields._sigpoll._band 117#define si_band _sifields._sigpoll._band
116#define si_fd _sifields._sigpoll._fd 118#define si_fd _sifields._sigpoll._fd
117 119
@@ -192,7 +194,11 @@ typedef struct siginfo {
192#define BUS_ADRALN (__SI_FAULT|1) /* invalid address alignment */ 194#define BUS_ADRALN (__SI_FAULT|1) /* invalid address alignment */
193#define BUS_ADRERR (__SI_FAULT|2) /* non-existant physical address */ 195#define BUS_ADRERR (__SI_FAULT|2) /* non-existant physical address */
194#define BUS_OBJERR (__SI_FAULT|3) /* object specific hardware error */ 196#define BUS_OBJERR (__SI_FAULT|3) /* object specific hardware error */
195#define NSIGBUS 3 197/* hardware memory error consumed on a machine check: action required */
198#define BUS_MCEERR_AR (__SI_FAULT|4)
199/* hardware memory error detected in process but not consumed: action optional*/
200#define BUS_MCEERR_AO (__SI_FAULT|5)
201#define NSIGBUS 5
196 202
197/* 203/*
198 * SIGTRAP si_codes 204 * SIGTRAP si_codes