[PATCH] HWPOISON: Clean up PR_MCE_KILL interface

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Oct 22 2009 - 02:02:45 EST


From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

While writing the manpage I noticed some shortcomings in the
current interface.

- Define symbolic names for all the different values
- Boundary check the kill mode values
- For symmetry add a get interface too. This allows library
code to get/set the current state.
- For consistency define a PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT value

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/prctl.h | 12 ++++++++++++
kernel/sys.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/prctl.h b/include/linux/prctl.h
index 9311505..a3baeb2 100644
--- a/include/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/prctl.h
@@ -88,6 +88,18 @@
#define PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE 31
#define PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE 32

+/*
+ * Set early/late kill mode for hwpoison memory corruption.
+ * This influences when the process gets killed on a memory corruption.
+ */
#define PR_MCE_KILL 33
+# define PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR 0
+# define PR_MCE_KILL_SET 1
+
+# define PR_MCE_KILL_LATE 0
+# define PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY 1
+# define PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT 2
+
+#define PR_MCE_KILL_GET 34

#endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 255475d..f6afe07 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1546,24 +1546,37 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
if (arg4 | arg5)
return -EINVAL;
switch (arg2) {
- case 0:
+ case PR_MCE_KILL_CLEAR:
if (arg3 != 0)
return -EINVAL;
current->flags &= ~PF_MCE_PROCESS;
break;
- case 1:
+ case PR_MCE_KILL_SET:
current->flags |= PF_MCE_PROCESS;
- if (arg3 != 0)
+ if (arg3 == PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY)
current->flags |= PF_MCE_EARLY;
- else
+ else if (arg3 == PR_MCE_KILL_LATE)
current->flags &= ~PF_MCE_EARLY;
+ else if (arg3 == PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT)
+ current->flags &=
+ ~(PF_MCE_EARLY|PF_MCE_PROCESS);
+ else
+ return -EINVAL;
break;
default:
return -EINVAL;
}
error = 0;
break;
-
+ case PR_MCE_KILL_GET:
+ if (arg2 | arg3 | arg4 | arg5)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (current->flags & PF_MCE_PROCESS)
+ error = (current->flags & PF_MCE_EARLY) ?
+ PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY : PR_MCE_KILL_LATE;
+ else
+ error = PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT;
+ break;
default:
error = -EINVAL;
break;
--
1.6.0.2

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