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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix smp_send_stop NMI IPI handling
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:17:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180425021753.26275-1-npiggin@gmail.com> (raw)

The NMI IPI handler for a receiving CPU increments nmi_ipi_busy_count
over the handler function call, which causes later smp_send_nmi_ipi()
callers to spin until the call is finished.

The smp_send_stop function never returns, so the busy count is never
decremeted, which can cause the system to hang in some cases. For
example panic() will call smp_send_stop early on, then later in the
reboot path, pnv_restart will call smp_send_stop again, which hangs.

Fix this by adding a special case to the smp_send_stop handler to
decrement the busy count, because it will never return.

Fixes: 6bed3237624e3 ("powerpc: use NMI IPI for smp_send_stop")
Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index e16ec7b3b427..250fccf04c6e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -567,10 +567,19 @@ void crash_send_ipi(void (*crash_ipi_callback)(struct pt_regs *))
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NMI_IPI
 static void stop_this_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	/*
+	 * This is a special case because it never returns, so the NMI IPI
+	 * handling would never mark it as done, which makes any later
+	 * smp_send_nmi_ipi() call spin forever. Mark it done now.
+	 */
+	nmi_ipi_lock();
+	nmi_ipi_busy_count--;
+	nmi_ipi_unlock();
 #else
 static void stop_this_cpu(void *dummy)
-#endif
 {
+#endif
 	/* Remove this CPU */
 	set_cpu_online(smp_processor_id(), false);
 
-- 
2.17.0

             reply	other threads:[~2018-04-25  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-25  2:17 Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2018-04-25  3:15 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Fix smp_send_stop NMI IPI handling Michael Ellerman
2018-04-25  3:51   ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-04-26  9:47     ` Michael Ellerman

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