powerpc/book3s: Introduce exclusive emergency stack for machine check exception.

This patch introduces exclusive emergency stack for machine check exception.
We use emergency stack to handle machine check exception so that we can save
MCE information (srr1, srr0, dar and dsisr) before turning on ME bit and be
ready for re-entrancy. This helps us to prevent clobbering of MCE information
in case of nested machine checks.

The reason for using emergency stack over normal kernel stack is that the
machine check might occur in the middle of setting up a stack frame which may
result into improper use of kernel stack.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 5760b9bea936..2232aff66059 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -540,7 +540,8 @@ static void __init exc_lvl_early_init(void)
 
 /*
  * Stack space used when we detect a bad kernel stack pointer, and
- * early in SMP boots before relocation is enabled.
+ * early in SMP boots before relocation is enabled. Exclusive emergency
+ * stack for machine checks.
  */
 static void __init emergency_stack_init(void)
 {
@@ -563,6 +564,13 @@ static void __init emergency_stack_init(void)
                 sp  = memblock_alloc_base(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, limit);
                 sp += THREAD_SIZE;
                 paca[i].emergency_sp = __va(sp);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
+                /* emergency stack for machine check exception handling. */
+                sp  = memblock_alloc_base(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, limit);
+                sp += THREAD_SIZE;
+                paca[i].mc_emergency_sp = __va(sp);
+#endif
         }
 }