linux-kernel - [05/23] powerpc/pseries: Only call start-cpu when a CPU is stopped

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Message-Id: <20100701172856.882121276@clark.site>
Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:26:54 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: [05/23] powerpc/pseries: Only call start-cpu when a CPU is stopped

2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>

commit aef40e87d866355ffd279ab21021de733242d0d5 upstream.

Currently we always call start-cpu irrespective of if the CPU is
stopped or not. Unfortunatley on POWER7, firmware seems to not like
start-cpu being called when a cpu already been started.  This was not
the case on POWER6 and earlier.

This patch checks to see if the CPU is stopped or not via an
query-cpu-stopped-state call, and only calls start-cpu on CPUs which
are stopped.

This fixes a bug with kexec on POWER7 on PHYP where only the primary
thread would make it to the second kernel.

Reported-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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/platforms/pseries/smp.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/smp.c
@@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ static inline int __devinit smp_startup_
 
 	pcpu = get_hard_smp_processor_id(lcpu);
 
+	/* Check to see if the CPU out of FW already for kexec */
+	if (smp_query_cpu_stopped(pcpu) == QCSS_NOT_STOPPED){
+		cpu_set(lcpu, of_spin_map);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
 	/* Fixup atomic count: it exited inside IRQ handler. */
 	task_thread_info(paca[lcpu].__current)->preempt_count	= 0;
 


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