When running as Xen dom0 the kernel isn't responsible for selecting the error handling mode, this should be handled by the hypervisor.
So disable setting FF mode when running as Xen pv guest. Not doing so might result in boot splats like:
[ 7.509696] HEST: Enabling Firmware First mode for corrected errors. [ 7.510382] mce: [Firmware Bug]: Ignoring request to disable invalid MCA bank 2. [ 7.510383] mce: [Firmware Bug]: Ignoring request to disable invalid MCA bank 3. [ 7.510384] mce: [Firmware Bug]: Ignoring request to disable invalid MCA bank 4. [ 7.510384] mce: [Firmware Bug]: Ignoring request to disable invalid MCA bank 5. [ 7.510385] mce: [Firmware Bug]: Ignoring request to disable invalid MCA bank 6. [ 7.510386] mce: [Firmware Bug]: Ignoring request to disable invalid MCA bank 7. [ 7.510386] mce: [Firmware Bug]: Ignoring request to disable invalid MCA bank 8.
Reason is that the HEST ACPI table contains the real number of MCA banks, while the hypervisor is emulating only 2 banks for guests.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com --- arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c index 22e741e0b10c..065c049d0f3c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c @@ -1296,6 +1296,14 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init xen_start_kernel(void)
xen_smp_init();
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI + /* + * Disable selecting "Firmware First mode" for correctable memory + * errors, as this is the duty of the hypervisor to decide. + */ + acpi_disable_cmcff = 1; +#endif + #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA /* * The pages we from Xen are not related to machine pages, so