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SubjectRe: [PATCH] efi/capsule: Make efi_capsule_pending() lockless
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 03:12:01PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> We can find ourselves in the reboot code even if the admin has not
> executed the reboot command. The trace above shows we entered because
> the kernel panic()'d and it was booted with panic=-1.

I knew you were gonna say something like that...

> Right. You could find yourself in this situation if you're in the
> middle of a capsule update and the box panics and reboots. Like you
> said, there's really not much you can do there to ensure the update
> completes. Your best option is to just not block and hang the machine.

Hmmm, so panic() does bust_spinlocks() and efi_capsule_pending() could
look at oops_in_progress which is set by bust_spinlocks() and that would
probably solve the panic case but maybe the normal reboot case would
still hang...

> Note that in the panic() -> emergency_restart() case the reboot
> notifiers are not called at all.

And then there's that.

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Boris.

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