From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, ellerman@au1.ibm.com,
Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdump: clear and EOI IPI for kexec CPU
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:04:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17447.18487.819008.818925@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44222FA0.90902@us.ibm.com>
Haren Myneni writes:
> Paul, Sorry, Please ignore the previous patch since it has one tab/space
> issue. Tested this one and kdump-dma-fault-fix.patch on P5, P4
> (non-lpar), JS21 and JS20.
>
> Thanks
> Haren
>
> Some times, the kexec CPU is not reponding to an IPI during kdump boot.
> It is causing the system in xmon. Noticed on power-4 (non-lpar). This
> patch clears and EOI IPI for kexec CPU as well before the kdump boot
> started.
Sorry, that commit message is quite opaque to me. Could you explain
in more detail what the problem is and how this fixes it?
Thanks,
Paul.
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2006-03-23 5:18 [PATCH] kdump: clear and EOI IPI for kexec CPU Haren Myneni
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