[PATCH] kexec: fix hang on i386 when panic occurs while console_sem is held

[Ingo Molnar]

* Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> Hey all-
> 	Theres a corner case in 32 bit x86 kdump at the moment.  When 
> the box panics via nmi, we call bust_spinlocks(1) to disable 
> sensitivity to the console_sem (allowing us to print to the console in 
> all cases), but we don't call crash_kexec, until after we call 
> bust_spinlocks(0), which re-enables console_sem sensitivity.  The 
> result is that, if we get an nmi while the console_sem is held and 
> kdump is configured, and we try to print something to the console 
> during kdump shutdown (which we often do) we deadlock the box.  The 
> fix is to simply do what 64 bit die_nmi does which is to not call 
> bust_spinlocks(0) until after we call crash_kexec.  Patch below tested 
> successfully by me:

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Neil!

>  dumpstack_32.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

would be nice to unify this code some more - to create a new 
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c and fill it in with die_nmi() as a 
beginning?

	Ingo