Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:16:50 -0600 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] x86/apic: Fix restoring boot irq mode in reboot and kexec/kdump |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> writes:
> * Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote: > >> This is v5 post. Newly added patch 0002 includes the change >> related to KEXEC_JUMP path. Patch 0003 only includes the >> regression fix. >> >> A regression bug was introduced in below commit. >> commit 522e66464467 ("x86/apic: Disable I/O APIC before shutdown of the local APIC") >> >> It caused the action to fail that we try to restore boot irq mode >> in reboot and kexec/kdump. Details can be seen in patch 0003. >> >> Warning can always be seen during kdump kernel boot on qemu/kvm >> platform. Our customer even saw casual kdump kernel hang once in >> ~30 attempts during stress testing of kdump on KVM machine. >> >> v4->v5: >> Take out the change related to KEXEC_JUMP to a new patch 0002 >> according to Eric's suggestion. >> Patch 0003 in this series only includes the regression fix. >> >> v3->v4: >> Eric pointed out that in patch 0002 the change related to >> KEXEC_JUMP is not right. >> Correct it. >> >> Add Fixes tag and Cc to stable. > > Eric, are these patches looking good to you now?
The result of applying the patches looks good. Barring whatever fix to header files that kbuild seems to find necessary.
I wish patches 1 2 and 4 were all the same patch. That I think would make reading the patches a bit easier, and make the backports clearer. But at this point that is just me bike-shedding.
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Eric
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