[PATCH v12 12/16] arm64: kdump: implement machine_crash_shutdown()

[Pratyush Anand]

Hi Akashi,

Some of the points which came while discussing with Mark Salter are worth
including in v13.

On 24/11/2015:10:25:34 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>

[...]

> +/**
> + * machine_crash_shutdown - shutdown non-boot cpus and save registers

"non-panic" would be correct in stead of "non-boot". 

> +	/* shutdown non-boot cpus */

Ditto

> +	smp_send_stop();
> +
> +	/* for boot cpu */

"for panic cpu"


[...]

> @@ -697,6 +704,11 @@ static void ipi_cpu_stop(unsigned int cpu)
>  
>  	local_irq_disable();

We have "set_cpu_online(cpu, false);" just before it.
Panic core is waiting for non-panic to go offline, i.e. for the above event.

>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
> +	if (in_crash_kexec)
> +		crash_save_cpu(regs, cpu);
> +#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */

However, we are still saving crash info for non-panic core. So, it would be good
to move crash_save_cpu() before set_cpu_online() to avoid any race condition.

~Pratyush