[PATCH v2] Add call to non-crashing cores through IPI
Per Fransson
per.xx.fransson at stericsson.com
Wed Nov 24 03:28:28 EST 2010
v2 changes:
* the interrupts of the calling core are no longer disabled
before performing the IPI
---
When kexec is used to start a crash kernel the other cores
are notified. These non-crashing cores will save their state
in the crash notes and then do nothing.
Signed-off-by: Per Fransson <per.xx.fransson at stericsson.com>
---
arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 3a8fd51..57a7f2f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ extern unsigned long kexec_indirection_page;
extern unsigned long kexec_mach_type;
extern unsigned long kexec_boot_atags;
+static atomic_t waiting_for_crash_ipi;
+
/*
* Provide a dummy crash_notes definition while crash dump arrives to arm.
* This prevents breakage of crash_notes attribute in kernel/ksysfs.c.
@@ -37,9 +39,34 @@ void machine_kexec_cleanup(struct kimage *image)
{
}
+void machine_crash_nonpanic_core(void *unused)
+{
+ struct pt_regs regs;
+
+ crash_setup_regs(®s, NULL);
+ printk(KERN_EMERG "CPU %u will stop doing anything useful since another CPU has crashed\n",
+ smp_processor_id());
+ crash_save_cpu(®s, smp_processor_id());
+ flush_cache_all();
+
+ atomic_dec(&waiting_for_crash_ipi);
+ while (1)
+ cpu_relax();
+}
+
void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
+ unsigned long msecs;
+
local_irq_disable();
+
+ atomic_set(&waiting_for_crash_ipi, num_online_cpus() - 1);
+ smp_call_function(machine_crash_nonpanic_core, NULL, false);
+ msecs = 1000; /* Wait at most a second for the other cpus to stop */
+ while ((atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) && msecs) {
+ mdelay(1);
+ msecs--;
+ }
crash_save_cpu(regs, smp_processor_id());
printk(KERN_INFO "Loading crashdump kernel...\n");
--
1.7.2.2
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