[PATCH 0/2] kexec command fails after cpu hot-removing

[Takao Indoh]

After cpu hot-removing, kexec command fails with the following message.

"/sys/devices" does not exist. Sysfs does not seem to be mounted. Try
mounting sysfs.

Of course sysfs is mounted. kexec tried to open
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu30/crash_notes but it failed because
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu30 did not exist.


[Before hot-remove]

# ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/
cpu0    cpu111  cpu18  cpu31  cpu45  cpu59  cpu72  cpu86  cpuidle
cpu1    cpu112  cpu19  cpu32  cpu46  cpu6   cpu73  cpu87  intel_pstate
cpu10   cpu113  cpu2   cpu33  cpu47  cpu60  cpu74  cpu88  kernel_max
cpu100  cpu114  cpu20  cpu34  cpu48  cpu61  cpu75  cpu89  microcode
cpu101  cpu115  cpu21  cpu35  cpu49  cpu62  cpu76  cpu9   modalias
cpu102  cpu116  cpu22  cpu36  cpu5   cpu63  cpu77  cpu90  offline
cpu103  cpu117  cpu23  cpu37  cpu50  cpu64  cpu78  cpu91  online
cpu104  cpu118  cpu24  cpu38  cpu51  cpu65  cpu79  cpu92  possible
cpu105  cpu119  cpu25  cpu39  cpu52  cpu66  cpu8   cpu93  power
cpu106  cpu12   cpu26  cpu4   cpu53  cpu67  cpu80  cpu94  present
cpu107  cpu13   cpu27  cpu40  cpu54  cpu68  cpu81  cpu95  probe
cpu108  cpu14   cpu28  cpu41  cpu55  cpu69  cpu82  cpu96  release
cpu109  cpu15   cpu29  cpu42  cpu56  cpu7   cpu83  cpu97  uevent
cpu11   cpu16   cpu3   cpu43  cpu57  cpu70  cpu84  cpu98
cpu110  cpu17   cpu30  cpu44  cpu58  cpu71  cpu85  cpu99


[After hot-remove]

# ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/
cpu0   cpu16  cpu23  cpu4   cpu65  cpu72  cpu8   cpu87         modalias uevent
cpu1   cpu17  cpu24  cpu5   cpu66  cpu73  cpu80  cpu88         offline
cpu10  cpu18  cpu25  cpu6   cpu67  cpu74  cpu81  cpu89         online
cpu11  cpu19  cpu26  cpu60  cpu68  cpu75  cpu82  cpu9          possible
cpu12  cpu2   cpu27  cpu61  cpu69  cpu76  cpu83  cpuidle       power
cpu13  cpu20  cpu28  cpu62  cpu7   cpu77  cpu84  intel_pstate  present
cpu14  cpu21  cpu29  cpu63  cpu70  cpu78  cpu85  kernel_max    probe
cpu15  cpu22  cpu3   cpu64  cpu71  cpu79  cpu86  microcode     release

You can see cpu30 to cpu59, and cpu90 to cpu119 does not exist, they are
removed from this system by hot-remove operation.

kexec command expects the number of each directory is contiguous. For
example, if sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) is 60, kexec thinks directory
cpu0, cpu1, cpu2, .... cpu59 exists. But in this case, the number of
directory is not contiguous. That is the root cause of this problem.
This patches fix it.

Takao Indoh (2):
  Enumerate all /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN when they are discontiguous
  Fix mistaken check of stat(2) return value

 kexec/crashdump-elf.c | 5 ++++-
 kexec/crashdump.c     | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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1.9.3