[PATCH v13 5/7] arm64: smp: IPI_CPU_STOP and IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP should try for NMI
Douglas Anderson
dianders at chromium.org
Wed Sep 6 09:03:00 PDT 2023
There's no reason why IPI_CPU_STOP and IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP can't be
handled as NMI. They are very simple and everything in them is
NMI-safe. Mark them as things to use NMI for if NMI is available.
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd at chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Misono Tomohiro <misono.tomohiro at fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
---
This patch is tested by Mark Rutland's LKDTM test [1].
[1] http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230831101026.3122590-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
(no changes since v10)
Changes in v10:
- ("IPI_CPU_STOP and IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP should try for NMI") new for v10.
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 28c904ca499a..800c59cf9b64 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -946,6 +946,8 @@ static bool ipi_should_be_nmi(enum ipi_msg_type ipi)
return false;
switch (ipi) {
+ case IPI_CPU_STOP:
+ case IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP:
case IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE:
return true;
default:
--
2.42.0.283.g2d96d420d3-goog
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