linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] irqchip: GIC kexec/kdump improvement and workarounds

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Message-ID: <72c7a6d2-a4c4-26b2-2982-c1d1ffb39b81@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:35:07 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaz@...ihalf.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] irqchip: GIC kexec/kdump improvement and workarounds

On 13/03/18 17:51, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 05:21:00PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> As kexec and kdump are getting used a bit more intensively, I've been
>> made aware of a number of shortcomings.
>>
>> The main gripe is from folks trying to launch a kdump kernel from
>> within an interrupt handler. If using EOImode==1, things work as
>> expected. If using EOImode==0 (such as in a guest), the secondary
>> kernel hangs as the previous interrupt hasn't been EOI'd, and the
>> active priority is still set. The first two patches are addressing
>> this situation for both GICv2 and GICv3 by reseting the APRs to their
>> default value.
> 
> As a more general thing, if irqchip drivers have state that needs to be
> reset in their init code, can we live all this irqchip reset to the
> crashdump kernel, and kill machine_kexec_mask_interrupts() entirely?

We could, once we know for sure that all the potential irqchips have
been fixed. Or we could just remove it immediately, and see what breaks.

> That would avoid some work (including pointer chasing on potentially
> corrupt memory) in the kernel that crashed, making it more likely that
> we get to the crashkernel intact...

Seems perfectly sensible to me.

	M.
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