Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCHv3] arm:kexec: have own crash_smp_send_stop() for crash dump for nonpanic cores | From | Hoeun Ryu <> | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:19:45 +0900 |
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Hello, All.
Would you please review this patch ? I haven't had any respond to this patch.
Thank you.
On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 10:22 +0900, Hoeun Ryu wrote: > Commit 0ee5941 : (x86/panic: replace smp_send_stop() with kdump friendly > version in panic path) introduced crash_smp_send_stop() which is a weak > function and can be overriden by architecture codes to fix the side effect > caused by commit f06e515 : (kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_ > notifiers" option). > > ARM architecture uses the weak version function and the problem is that > the weak function simply calls smp_send_stop() which makes other CPUs > offline and takes away the chance to save crash information for nonpanic > CPUs in machine_crash_shutdown() when crash_kexec_post_notifiers kernel > option is enabled. > > Calling smp_call_function(machine_crash_nonpanic_core, NULL, false) in > the function is useless because all nonpanic CPUs are already offline by > smp_send_stop() in this case and smp_call_function() only works against > online CPUs. > > The result is that /proc/vmcore is not available with the error messages; > "Warning: Zero PT_NOTE entries found", "Kdump: vmcore not initialized". > > crash_smp_send_stop() is implemented for ARM architecture to fix this > problem and the function (strong symbol version) saves crash information > for nonpanic CPUs using smp_call_function() and machine_crash_shutdown() > tries to save crash information for nonpanic CPUs only when > crash_kexec_post_notifiers kernel option is disabled. > > We might be able to implement the function like arm64 or x86 using a > dedicated IPI (let's say IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP), but we cannot implement this > function like that because of the lack of IPI slots. Please see the commit > e7273ff4 : (ARM: 8488/1: Make IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE a "non-secure" SGI) > > Signed-off-by: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@gmail.com> > --- > v3: > - remove 'WARN_ON(num_online_cpus() > 1)' in machine_crash_shutdown(). > it's a false check for the case when crash_kexec_post_notifiers > kernel option is disabled. > v2: > - calling crash_smp_send_stop() in machine_crash_shutdown() for the case > when crash_kexec_post_notifiers kernel option is disabled. > - fix commit messages for it. > > arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c > index fe1419e..82ef7c7 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c > @@ -94,6 +94,34 @@ void machine_crash_nonpanic_core(void *unused) > cpu_relax(); > } > > +void crash_smp_send_stop(void) > +{ > + static int cpus_stopped; > + unsigned long msecs; > + > + /* > + * This function can be called twice in panic path, but obviously > + * we execute this only once. > + */ > + if (cpus_stopped) > + return; > + > + cpus_stopped = 1; > + > + if (num_online_cpus() == 1) > + return; > + > + atomic_set(&waiting_for_crash_ipi, num_online_cpus() - 1); > + smp_call_function(machine_crash_nonpanic_core, NULL, false); > + msecs = 1000; /* Wait at most a second for the other cpus to stop */ > + while ((atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) && msecs) { > + mdelay(1); > + msecs--; > + } > + if (atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) > + pr_warn("Non-crashing CPUs did not react to IPI\n"); > +} > + > static void machine_kexec_mask_interrupts(void) > { > unsigned int i; > @@ -119,19 +147,9 @@ static void machine_kexec_mask_interrupts(void) > > void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs) > { > - unsigned long msecs; > - > local_irq_disable(); > > - atomic_set(&waiting_for_crash_ipi, num_online_cpus() - 1); > - smp_call_function(machine_crash_nonpanic_core, NULL, false); > - msecs = 1000; /* Wait at most a second for the other cpus to stop */ > - while ((atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) && msecs) { > - mdelay(1); > - msecs--; > - } > - if (atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) > - pr_warn("Non-crashing CPUs did not react to IPI\n"); > + crash_smp_send_stop(); > > crash_save_cpu(regs, smp_processor_id()); > machine_kexec_mask_interrupts();
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