linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] UV: NMI: simple dump failover if kdump fails

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Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:29:19 -0500 (CDT)
From:	George Beshers <gbeshers@....com>
To:	George Beshers <gbeshers@....com>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Hedi Berriche <hedi@....com>,
	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
Cc:	George Beshers <gbeshers@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] UV: NMI: simple dump failover if kdump fails

UV: NMI: simple dump failover if kdump fails
    
The ability to trigger a kdump using the system NMI command
was added by

    commit 12ba6c990fab50fe568f3ad8715e81e356552428
    Author: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
    Date:   Mon Sep 23 16:25:03 2013 -0500

When kdump is works it is preferable to the set of backtraces
that dump provides; however a number of things can go wrong and
the backtraces are much more useful than nothing.

The two most common reason for kdump not to be available are
a problem during boot or the kdump daemon fails to start.
In either case the call to crash_kexec() returns unexpectedly;
when this happens uv_nmi_kdump() also returns with the
uv_nmi_kexec_failed flag set.  This condition now causes a
standard dump.

One other minor change is that dump now generates both the
show_regs() stack trace and the uv_nmi_dump_ip{,_hdr} information
that is generated by the "ips" action; the additional information
has proved to be useful.

Signed-off-by: George Beshers <gbeshers@....com>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@....com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>
Cc: Hedi Berriche <hedi@....com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@....com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c b/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c
index 7488caf..89f37c7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c
@@ -391,23 +391,27 @@ static void uv_nmi_dump_cpu_ip(int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	printk_address(regs->ip);
 }
 
-/* Dump this cpu's state */
+/*
+ * Dump this cpu's state.  Note that "kdump" only happens
+ * when crash_kexec() has failed and we are providing the user
+ * a standard dump instead.
+ */
 static void uv_nmi_dump_state_cpu(int cpu, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	const char *dots = " ................................. ";
 
-	if (uv_nmi_action_is("ips")) {
-		if (cpu == 0)
-			uv_nmi_dump_cpu_ip_hdr();
-
-		if (current->pid != 0)
-			uv_nmi_dump_cpu_ip(cpu, regs);
-
-	} else if (uv_nmi_action_is("dump")) {
+	if (uv_nmi_action_is("dump") || uv_nmi_action_is("kdump")) {
 		printk(KERN_DEFAULT
 			"UV:%sNMI process trace for CPU %d\n", dots, cpu);
 		show_regs(regs);
 	}
+
+	if (cpu == 0)
+		uv_nmi_dump_cpu_ip_hdr();
+
+	if (current->pid != 0)
+		uv_nmi_dump_cpu_ip(cpu, regs);
+
 	this_cpu_write(uv_cpu_nmi.state, UV_NMI_STATE_DUMP_DONE);
 }
 
@@ -492,8 +496,9 @@ static void uv_nmi_touch_watchdogs(void)
 	touch_nmi_watchdog();
 }
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_KEXEC)
 static atomic_t uv_nmi_kexec_failed;
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_KEXEC)
 static void uv_nmi_kdump(int cpu, int master, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	/* Call crash to dump system state */
@@ -502,9 +507,9 @@ static void uv_nmi_kdump(int cpu, int master, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		crash_kexec(regs);
 
 		pr_emerg("UV: crash_kexec unexpectedly returned, ");
+		atomic_set(&uv_nmi_kexec_failed, 1);
 		if (!kexec_crash_image) {
 			pr_cont("crash kernel not loaded\n");
-			atomic_set(&uv_nmi_kexec_failed, 1);
 			uv_nmi_sync_exit(1);
 			return;
 		}
@@ -524,6 +529,7 @@ static inline void uv_nmi_kdump(int cpu, int master, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	if (master)
 		pr_err("UV: NMI kdump: KEXEC not supported in this kernel\n");
+	atomic_set(&uv_nmi_kexec_failed, 1);
 }
 #endif /* !CONFIG_KEXEC */
 
@@ -620,7 +626,8 @@ int uv_handle_nmi(unsigned int reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	uv_nmi_wait(master);
 
 	/* Dump state of each cpu */
-	if (uv_nmi_action_is("ips") || uv_nmi_action_is("dump"))
+	if (uv_nmi_action_is("ips") || uv_nmi_action_is("dump") ||
+			atomic_read(&uv_nmi_kexec_failed) == 1)
 		uv_nmi_dump_state(cpu, regs, master);
 
 	/* Call KGDB/KDB if enabled */
@@ -640,6 +647,7 @@ int uv_handle_nmi(unsigned int reason, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		atomic_set(&uv_nmi_cpus_in_nmi, -1);
 		atomic_set(&uv_nmi_cpu, -1);
 		atomic_set(&uv_in_nmi, 0);
+		atomic_set(&uv_nmi_kexec_failed, 0);
 	}
 
 	uv_nmi_touch_watchdogs();
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