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authorMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>2010-05-13 19:40:11 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-05-21 17:31:11 +1000
commit1fc711f7ffb01089efc58042cfdbac8573d1b59a (patch)
tree7c057a32c140e8d617a9cff34ca5d2227e9acdb8 /arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
parentd504bed676caad29a3dba3d3727298c560628f5c (diff)
powerpc/kexec: Fix race in kexec shutdown
In kexec_prepare_cpus, the primary CPU IPIs the secondary CPUs to kexec_smp_down(). kexec_smp_down() calls kexec_smp_wait() which sets the hw_cpu_id() to -1. The primary does this while leaving IRQs on which means the primary can take a timer interrupt which can lead to the IPIing one of the secondary CPUs (say, for a scheduler re-balance) but since the secondary CPU now has a hw_cpu_id = -1, we IPI CPU -1... Kaboom! We are hitting this case regularly on POWER7 machines. There is also a second race, where the primary will tear down the MMU mappings before knowing the secondaries have entered real mode. Also, the secondaries are clearing out any pending IPIs before guaranteeing that no more will be received. This changes kexec_prepare_cpus() so that we turn off IRQs in the primary CPU much earlier. It adds a paca flag to say that the secondaries have entered the kexec_smp_down() IPI and turned off IRQs, rather than overloading hw_cpu_id with -1. This new paca flag is again used to in indicate when the secondaries has entered real mode. It also ensures that all CPUs have their IRQs off before we clear out any pending IPI requests (in kexec_cpu_down()) to ensure there are no trailing IPIs left unacknowledged. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
index a5cf9c1356a..a2b18dffa03 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
#include <asm/cputable.h>
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
+#include <asm/kexec.h>
.text
@@ -471,6 +472,10 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_wait)
1: mflr r5
addi r5,r5,kexec_flag-1b
+ li r4,KEXEC_STATE_REAL_MODE
+ stb r4,PACAKEXECSTATE(r13)
+ SYNC
+
99: HMT_LOW
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC /* use no memory without kexec */
lwz r4,0(r5)
@@ -494,14 +499,11 @@ kexec_flag:
* note: this is a terminal routine, it does not save lr
*
* get phys id from paca
- * set paca id to -1 to say we got here
* switch to real mode
* join other cpus in kexec_wait(phys_id)
*/
_GLOBAL(kexec_smp_wait)
lhz r3,PACAHWCPUID(r13)
- li r4,-1
- sth r4,PACAHWCPUID(r13) /* let others know we left */
bl real_mode
b .kexec_wait