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From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"schwidefsky@de.ibm.com" <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	"heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com" <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: kdump: crash_kexec()-smp_send_stop() race in panic
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:33:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319531622.3056.1.camel@br98xy6r> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C4C569E8A4B9B42A84A977CF070A35B2C57612A37@USINDEVS01.corp.hds.com>

Hello Seiji,

On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 18:24 -0400, Seiji Aguchi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> >>> 1st CPU:
> >> >>> panic()->crash_kexec()->mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)-> do kdump
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 2nd CPU:
> >> >>> panic()->crash_kexec()->kexec_mutex already held by 1st CPU
> >> >>>        ->smp_send_stop()-> stop CPU 1 (stop kdump)
> >> >>>
> >> >>> How should we fix this problem? One possibility could be to do
> >> >>> smp_send_stop() before we call crash_kexec().
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/16/353
> 
> I developed a patch solving this issue one year ago.
> (Just adding local_irq_disable in kexec path.)

This won't work (at least on s390) because smp_send_stop() will also
stop CPUs that have interrupts disabled.

Michael


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-25  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-24 14:55 Michael Holzheu
2011-10-24 15:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-24 15:23   ` Américo Wang
2011-10-24 17:07     ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-24 17:33       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-10-24 22:24         ` Seiji Aguchi
2011-10-25  8:33           ` Michael Holzheu [this message]
2011-10-25  8:44       ` Michael Holzheu
2011-10-25 12:04         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-10-25 14:54           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-10-25 14:58           ` Michael Holzheu
2011-10-25 15:08             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-10-25 15:28               ` Michael Holzheu
2011-10-25 15:28               ` Don Zickus

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