Re: [stable] [2/3] powerpc/kdump: Fix race in kdump shutdown

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:44:33PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> 	powerpc/kdump: Fix race in kdump shutdown
> 
> 	Commit: 60adec6226bbcf061d4c2d10944fced209d1847d upstream
> 
> 	When we are crashing, the crashing/primary CPU IPIs the secondaries to
> 	turn off IRQs, go into real mode and wait in kexec_wait.  While this
> 	is happening, the primary tears down all the MMU maps.  Unfortunately
> 	the primary doesn't check to make sure the secondaries have entered
> 	real mode before doing this.
> 
> 	On PHYP machines, the secondaries can take a long time shutting down
> 	the IRQ controller as RTAS calls are need.  These RTAS calls need to
> 	be serialised which resilts in the secondaries contending in
> 	lock_rtas() and hence taking a long time to shut down.
> 
> 	We've hit this on large POWER7 machines, where some secondaries are
> 	still waiting in lock_rtas(), when the primary tears down the HPTEs.
> 
> 	This patch makes sure all secondaries are in real mode before the
> 	primary tears down the MMU.  It uses the new kexec_state entry in the
> 	paca.  It times out if the secondaries don't reach real mode after
> 	10sec.
> 
> 	Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
> 	Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> 	Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 	cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

Please don't indent these, I have to unindent them for every patch I
apply from you, which is a pain.


> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
> index b779818..706b622 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
> @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static void crash_kexec_prepare_cpus(int cpu)
> 		while (cpus_weight(cpus_in_crash) < ncpus)
> 			cpu_relax();
> 	}
> +
> 	/*
> 	 * Make sure all CPUs are entered via soft-reset if the kdump is
> 	 * invoked using soft-reset.

That chunk is not in the upstream commit.  Please be more careful.

greg k-h