[V3 PATCH 0/4] Fix race issues among panic, NMI and crash_kexec

[Michal Hocko]

JFYI I have those patches tested on the largish box. Will come back to
you as soon as I have some feedback.

I will also try to review these patches sometimes next week.

Thanks!

On Thu 06-08-15 14:45:43, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> When an HA cluster software or administrator detects non-response
> of a host, they issue an NMI to the host to completely stop current
> works and take a crash dump.  If the kernel has already panicked
> or is capturing a crash dump at that time, further NMI can cause
> a crash dump failure.
> 
> Also, crash_kexec() called from oops context and panic() can
> cause race conditions.
> 
> To solve these issue, this patch set does following things:
> 
> - Don't panic on NMI if the kernel has already panicked
> - Extend exclusion control currently done by panic_lock to crash_kexec
> - Introduce "noextnmi" boot option which masks external NMI at the
>   boot time (supported only for x86)
> 
> V3:
> - Introduce nmi_panic() macro to reduce code duplication
> - In the case of panic on NMI, don't return from NMI handlers
>   if another cpu already panicked
> 
> V2:
> - Use atomic_cmpxchg() instead of current spin_trylock() to exclude
>   concurrent accesses to panic() and crash_kexec()
> - Don't introduce no-lock version of panic() and crash_kexec()
> 
> ---
> 
> Hidehiro Kawai (4):
>       panic/x86: Fix re-entrance problem due to panic on NMI
>       panic/x86: Allow cpus to save registers even if they are looping in NMI context
>       kexec: Fix race between panic() and crash_kexec() called directly
>       x86/apic: Introduce noextnmi boot option
> 
> 
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    4 ++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c         |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c               |   15 +++++++++++----
>  arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c            |   11 +++++++++++
>  include/linux/kernel.h              |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/kexec.c                      |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/panic.c                      |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>  kernel/watchdog.c                   |    5 +++--
>  8 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Hidehiro Kawai
> Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group
> 
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs