[PATCH] kexec/crash: no crash update when kexec in progress

Sourabh Jain sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com
Wed Jul 31 08:27:38 PDT 2024


The following errors are observed when kexec is done with SMT=off on
powerpc.

[  358.458385] Removing IBM Power 842 compression device
[  374.795734] kexec_core: Starting new kernel
[  374.795748] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1.
[  374.875695] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
[  374.935833] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2.
[  375.015664] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
snip..
[  375.515823] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6.
[  375.635667] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
[  375.695836] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7.

During kexec, the offline CPUs are brought online, which triggers the
crash hotplug handler `crash_handle_hotplug_event()` to update the kdump
image. Given that the system is on the kexec path and the kexec lock is
taken, the `crash_handle_hotplug_event()` function fails to take the
same lock to update the kdump image, resulting in the above error
messages.

To fix this, let's return from `crash_handle_hotplug_event()` if kexec
is in progress.

The same applies to the `crash_check_hotplug_support()` function.
Return 0 if kexec is in progress.

Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86 at kernel.org
Reported-by: Sachin P Bappalige <sachinpb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain at linux.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/crash_core.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
index 63cf89393c6e..d37a16d5c3a1 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_core.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
@@ -502,6 +502,9 @@ int crash_check_hotplug_support(void)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
 
+	if (kexec_in_progress)
+		return 0;
+
 	crash_hotplug_lock();
 	/* Obtain lock while reading crash information */
 	if (!kexec_trylock()) {
@@ -537,6 +540,9 @@ static void crash_handle_hotplug_event(unsigned int hp_action, unsigned int cpu,
 {
 	struct kimage *image;
 
+	if (kexec_in_progress)
+		return;
+
 	crash_hotplug_lock();
 	/* Obtain lock while changing crash information */
 	if (!kexec_trylock()) {
-- 
2.45.2




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