Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:57:10 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	stable-review@...nel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [stable] [05/35] powerpc/kdump: Fix race in kdump shutdown

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:27:06PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > 2.6.33-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
> >
> > commit 60adec6226bbcf061d4c2d10944fced209d1847d upstream.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> It looks like this introduces an issue for ppc32 unless we also take
> the upstream c2be05481f612525 commit.  There is an e500 kexec
> patch in between that modifies context; here is the one I've tentatively
> queued for 2.6.34 without a dependency on the e500 patch context.
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git;a=blob;f=next_round/powerpc-Fix-default_machine_crash_shutdown-ifdef-bot.patch

Yes, I now have updated patches from Kamalesh in the tree to resolve
this.

thanks,

greg k-h

> 
> Paul.
> 
> >
> > When we are crashing, the crashing/primary CPU IPIs the secondaries to
> > turn off IRQs, go into real mode and wait in kexec_wait.  While this
> > is happening, the primary tears down all the MMU maps.  Unfortunately
> > the primary doesn't check to make sure the secondaries have entered
> > real mode before doing this.
> >
> > On PHYP machines, the secondaries can take a long time shutting down
> > the IRQ controller as RTAS calls are need.  These RTAS calls need to
> > be serialised which resilts in the secondaries contending in
> > lock_rtas() and hence taking a long time to shut down.
> >
> > We've hit this on large POWER7 machines, where some secondaries are
> > still waiting in lock_rtas(), when the primary tears down the HPTEs.
> >
> > This patch makes sure all secondaries are in real mode before the
> > primary tears down the MMU.  It uses the new kexec_state entry in the
> > paca.  It times out if the secondaries don't reach real mode after
> > 10sec.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> >
> > ---
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> >
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
> > @@ -162,6 +162,32 @@ static void crash_kexec_prepare_cpus(int
> >        /* Leave the IPI callback set */
> >  }
> >
> > +/* wait for all the CPUs to hit real mode but timeout if they don't come in */
> > +static void crash_kexec_wait_realmode(int cpu)
> > +{
> > +       unsigned int msecs;
> > +       int i;
> > +
> > +       msecs = 10000;
> > +       for (i=0; i < NR_CPUS && msecs > 0; i++) {
> > +               if (i == cpu)
> > +                       continue;
> > +
> > +               while (paca[i].kexec_state < KEXEC_STATE_REAL_MODE) {
> > +                       barrier();
> > +                       if (!cpu_possible(i)) {
> > +                               break;
> > +                       }
> > +                       if (!cpu_online(i)) {
> > +                               break;
> > +                       }
> > +                       msecs--;
> > +                       mdelay(1);
> > +               }
> > +       }
> > +       mb();
> > +}
> > +
> >  /*
> >  * This function will be called by secondary cpus or by kexec cpu
> >  * if soft-reset is activated to stop some CPUs.
> > @@ -419,6 +445,7 @@ void default_machine_crash_shutdown(stru
> >        crash_kexec_prepare_cpus(crashing_cpu);
> >        cpu_set(crashing_cpu, cpus_in_crash);
> >        crash_kexec_stop_spus();
> > +       crash_kexec_wait_realmode(crashing_cpu);
> >        if (ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down)
> >                ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down(1, 0);
> >  }
> >
> >
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