[RFC PATCH] Bug during kexec...not all cpus are stopped
Alok Kataria
akataria at vmware.com
Thu Oct 21 15:09:16 EDT 2010
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 17:23 -0700, Alok Kataria wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:17 -0700, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:10:11PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:41:23PM -0700, Alok Kataria wrote:
> > >
> > > > I don't think that kdump path uses smp_send_stop().
> > >
> > > It doesn't.
> > >
> > > > IIUC, on x86, we directly send NMI to other cpus.
> > > >
> > > > native_machine_crash_shutdown()
> > > > kdump_nmi_shootdown_cpus()
> > > > nmi_shootdown_cpus()
> > > > smp_send_nmi_allbutself
> > > > apic->send_IPI_allbutself(NMI_VECTOR);
> > > >
> > > > So above description should be limited to only panic() path.
> > >
> > > Is it actually confusing? With respect to documenting the line
> > > of thinking it seems reasonable.
> > >
> >
> > No, just wanted to point out that let us modify the changelog to remove
> > keyword "kdump" from it.
> >
> > > > On a side note, I am wondering why panic() and kdump path can't share the
> > > > shutdown routine.
> > >
> > > Hysterical raisins. Andi's change to smp_send_stop says that NMIs not
> > > working on some boxes. When someone wants to weed through all of the
> > > insanity it would probably be good to get the panic and the kdump paths
> > > sharing code. For now simply separating panic and reboot should be
> > > enough, and it lets the code evolve where it needs to.
> > >
> >
> > Ok. Agreed that atleast conceptually kdump and panic() path should share
> > the code. But that's a different problem altogether and this patch can go in.
>
> Okay now that we all agree, let me repost a patch with the updated
> changelog, this fits on top of tip/master.
Hi Ingo, HPA
I don't think this patch was picked up for tip, now that the 2.6.37
merge window is open can you please pick this up push it upstream.
This patch fixes a legitimate regression, which was introduced during
2.6.30, by commit id 4ef702c10b5df18ab04921fc252c26421d4d6c75.
Thanks,
Alok
>
> --
>
> x86 smp_ops now has a new op, stop_other_cpus which takes a parameter "wait"
> this allows the caller to specify if it wants to stop until all the cpus
> have processed the stop IPI. This is required specifically for the kexec case
> where we should wait for all the cpus to be stopped before starting the new
> kernel.
> We now wait for the cpus to stop in all cases except for panic where we expect
> things to be broken and we are doing our best to make things work anyway.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria at vmware.com>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at xensource.com>
>
> Index: linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-x86-tree.git.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h 2010-02-07 16:37:26.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h 2010-10-12 16:37:04.000000000 -0700
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ struct smp_ops {
> void (*smp_prepare_cpus)(unsigned max_cpus);
> void (*smp_cpus_done)(unsigned max_cpus);
>
> - void (*smp_send_stop)(void);
> + void (*stop_other_cpus)(int wait);
> void (*smp_send_reschedule)(int cpu);
>
> int (*cpu_up)(unsigned cpu);
> @@ -73,7 +73,12 @@ extern struct smp_ops smp_ops;
>
> static inline void smp_send_stop(void)
> {
> - smp_ops.smp_send_stop();
> + smp_ops.stop_other_cpus(0);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void stop_other_cpus(void)
> +{
> + smp_ops.stop_other_cpus(1);
> }
>
> static inline void smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
> Index: linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-x86-tree.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c 2010-08-17 12:09:51.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c 2010-10-12 16:37:04.000000000 -0700
> @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ void native_machine_shutdown(void)
> /* O.K Now that I'm on the appropriate processor,
> * stop all of the others.
> */
> - smp_send_stop();
> + stop_other_cpus();
> #endif
>
> lapic_shutdown();
> Index: linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-x86-tree.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c 2010-07-08 13:53:34.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c 2010-10-12 16:37:04.000000000 -0700
> @@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ asmlinkage void smp_reboot_interrupt(voi
> irq_exit();
> }
>
> -static void native_smp_send_stop(void)
> +static void native_stop_other_cpus(int wait)
> {
> unsigned long flags;
> - unsigned long wait;
> + unsigned long timeout;
>
> if (reboot_force)
> return;
> @@ -179,9 +179,12 @@ static void native_smp_send_stop(void)
> if (num_online_cpus() > 1) {
> apic->send_IPI_allbutself(REBOOT_VECTOR);
>
> - /* Don't wait longer than a second */
> - wait = USEC_PER_SEC;
> - while (num_online_cpus() > 1 && wait--)
> + /*
> + * Don't wait longer than a second if the caller
> + * didn't ask us to wait.
> + */
> + timeout = USEC_PER_SEC;
> + while (num_online_cpus() > 1 && (wait || timeout--))
> udelay(1);
> }
>
> @@ -227,7 +230,7 @@ struct smp_ops smp_ops = {
> .smp_prepare_cpus = native_smp_prepare_cpus,
> .smp_cpus_done = native_smp_cpus_done,
>
> - .smp_send_stop = native_smp_send_stop,
> + .stop_other_cpus = native_stop_other_cpus,
> .smp_send_reschedule = native_smp_send_reschedule,
>
> .cpu_up = native_cpu_up,
> Index: linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-x86-tree.git.orig/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c 2010-10-12 16:36:28.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c 2010-10-12 16:37:04.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ static void xen_reboot(int reason)
> struct sched_shutdown r = { .reason = reason };
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> - smp_send_stop();
> + stop_other_cpus();
> #endif
>
> if (HYPERVISOR_sched_op(SCHEDOP_shutdown, &r))
> Index: linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/xen/smp.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-x86-tree.git.orig/arch/x86/xen/smp.c 2010-08-17 12:09:51.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-x86-tree.git/arch/x86/xen/smp.c 2010-10-12 16:37:04.000000000 -0700
> @@ -400,9 +400,9 @@ static void stop_self(void *v)
> BUG();
> }
>
> -static void xen_smp_send_stop(void)
> +static void xen_stop_other_cpus(int wait)
> {
> - smp_call_function(stop_self, NULL, 0);
> + smp_call_function(stop_self, NULL, wait);
> }
>
> static void xen_smp_send_reschedule(int cpu)
> @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ static const struct smp_ops xen_smp_ops
> .cpu_disable = xen_cpu_disable,
> .play_dead = xen_play_dead,
>
> - .smp_send_stop = xen_smp_send_stop,
> + .stop_other_cpus = xen_stop_other_cpus,
> .smp_send_reschedule = xen_smp_send_reschedule,
>
> .send_call_func_ipi = xen_smp_send_call_function_ipi,
>
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