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authorBalbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>2017-12-15 19:14:55 +1100
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-01-16 23:47:11 +1100
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powernv/kdump: Fix cases where the kdump kernel can get HMI's
Certain HMI's such as malfunction error propagate through all threads/core on the system. If a thread was offline prior to us crashing the system and jumping to the kdump kernel, bad things happen when it wakes up due to an HMI in the kdump kernel. There are several possible ways to solve this problem 1. Put the offline cores in a state such that they are not woken up for machine check and HMI errors. This does not work, since we might need to wake up offline threads to handle TB errors 2. Ignore HMI errors, setup HMEER to mask HMI errors, but this still leads the window open for any MCEs and masking them for the duration of the dump might be a concern 3. Wake up offline CPUs, as in send them to crash_ipi_callback (not wake them up as in mark them online as seen by the hotplug). kexec does a wake_online_cpus() call, this patch does something similar, but instead sends an IPI and forces them to crash_ipi_callback() This patch takes approach #3. Care is taken to enable this only for powenv platforms via crash_wake_offline (a global value set at setup time). The crash code sends out IPI's to all CPU's which then move to crash_ipi_callback and kexec_smp_wait(). Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
index 29c56ca2ddfd..00b215125d3e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@
#define REAL_MODE_TIMEOUT 10000
static int time_to_dump;
+/*
+ * crash_wake_offline should be set to 1 by platforms that intend to wake
+ * up offline cpus prior to jumping to a kdump kernel. Currently powernv
+ * sets it to 1, since we want to avoid things from happening when an
+ * offline CPU wakes up due to something like an HMI (malfunction error),
+ * which propagates to all threads.
+ */
+int crash_wake_offline;
#define CRASH_HANDLER_MAX 3
/* List of shutdown handles */
@@ -63,7 +71,7 @@ static int handle_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
static atomic_t cpus_in_crash;
-static void crash_ipi_callback(struct pt_regs *regs)
+void crash_ipi_callback(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
static cpumask_t cpus_state_saved = CPU_MASK_NONE;
@@ -106,6 +114,9 @@ static void crash_kexec_prepare_cpus(int cpu)
printk(KERN_EMERG "Sending IPI to other CPUs\n");
+ if (crash_wake_offline)
+ ncpus = num_present_cpus() - 1;
+
crash_send_ipi(crash_ipi_callback);
smp_wmb();
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