Re: [PATCH] kexec: return error of machine_kexec() fails

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> writes:

> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>
> Prior to commit 3ab8352 "kexec jump", if machine_kexec() returned,
> sys_reboot() would return -EINVAL. This patch restores this behaviour
> for the non-KEXEC_JUMP case, where machine_kexec() is not expected to
> return.
>
> This situation can occur on ARM, where kexec requires disabling all but
> one CPU using CPU hotplug. However, if hotplug isn't supported by the
> particular HW the kernel is running on, then kexec cannot succeed.

Ugh. This reasoning is nonsense.  Prior to the kexec jump work
machine_kexec could never return and so could never return -EINVAL.

It is not ok to have an image loaded that we can not kexec.  kexec_load
should fail not machine_shutdown or machine_kexec.

The only time that machine_kexec can validly return is in the kexec_jump
case, and that is a successful return.

So formally.

Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

My apologies for not speaking up sooner the broken ARM mutli-cpu
shutdown architecture hurts my brain to think about

ARM needs to get it's act together and stop modifying the generic code
to deal with it's broken multi-cpu architecture.

Eric

> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Acked-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
> ---
>  kernel/kexec.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> Andrew, could you consider picking up this patch?
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
> index 59f7b55..bde1190 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -1702,6 +1702,8 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
>  		pm_restore_console();
>  		unlock_system_sleep();
>  	}
> +#else
> +	error = -EINVAL;
>  #endif
>  
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