linux/arch/ia64/kernel
Hidetoshi Seto 1726b0883d [IA64] kdump: Mask INIT first in panic-kdump path
Summary:

  Asserting INIT might block kdump if the system is already going to
  start kdump via panic.

Description:

  INIT can interrupt anywhere in panic path, so it can interrupt in
  middle of kdump kicked by panic.  Therefore there is a race if kdump
  is kicked concurrently, via Panic and via INIT.

  INIT could fail to invoke kdump if the system is already going to
  start kdump via panic.  It could not restart kdump from INIT handler
  if some of cpus are already playing dead with INIT masked.  It also
  means that INIT could block kdump's progress if no monarch is entered
  in the INIT rendezvous.

  Panic+INIT is a rare, but possible situation since it can be assumed
  that the kernel or an internal agent decides to panic the unstable
  system while another external agent decides to send an INIT to the
  system at same time.

How to reproduce:

  Assert INIT just after panic, before all other cpus have frozen

Expected results:

  continue kdump invoked by panic, or restart kdump from INIT

Actual results:

  might be hang, crashdump not retrieved

Proposed Fix:

  This patch masks INIT first in panic path to take the initiative on
  kdump, and reuse atomic value kdump_in_progress to make sure there is
  only one initiator of kdump.  All INITs asserted later should be used
  only for freezing all other cpus.

  This mask will be removed soon by rfi in relocate_kernel.S, before jump
  into kdump kernel, after all cpus are frozen and no-op INIT handler is
  registered.  So if INIT was in the interval while it is masked, it will
  pend on the system and will received just after the rfi, and handled by
  the no-op handler.

  If there was a MCA event while psr.mc is 1, in theory the event will
  pend on the system and will received just after the rfi same as above.
  MCA handler is unregistered here at the time, so received MCA will not
  reach to OS_MCA and will result in warmboot by SAL.

  Note that codes in this masked interval are relatively simpler than
  that in MCA/INIT handler which also executed with the mask.  So it can
  be said that probability of error in this interval is supposed not so
  higher than that in MCA/INIT handler.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2009-09-14 16:18:54 -07:00
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cpufreq
.gitignore
acpi-ext.c
acpi-processor.c ACPI: pdc init related memory leak with physical CPU hotplug 2009-06-20 00:50:52 -04:00
acpi.c irq: change ACPI GSI APIs to also take a device argument 2009-04-28 12:21:17 +02:00
asm-offsets.c ia64/pv_ops/xen: paravirtualize read/write ar.itc and ar.itm 2009-03-26 10:50:32 -07:00
audit.c
brl_emu.c
crash.c [IA64] kdump: Mask INIT first in panic-kdump path 2009-09-14 16:18:54 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cyclone.c clocksource: pass clocksource to read() callback 2009-04-21 13:41:47 -07:00
dma-mapping.c [IA64] Fix warning in dma-mapping.c 2009-09-02 09:12:21 -07:00
efi.c [IA64] Convert ia64 to use int-ll64.h 2009-06-17 09:33:49 -07:00
efi_stub.S
entry.h
entry.S [IA64] hook up new rt_tgsigqueueinfo syscall 2009-06-16 13:13:41 -07:00
err_inject.c
esi.c [IA64] Remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-06-30 14:18:32 -07:00
esi_stub.S
fsys.S ia64/pv_ops: paravirtualize mov = ar.itc. 2009-03-26 10:50:22 -07:00
fsyscall_gtod_data.h
ftrace.c
gate-data.S
gate.lds.S ia64/pv_ops: gate page paravirtualization. 2009-03-26 10:51:02 -07:00
gate.S ia64/pv_ops: paravirtualize gate.S. 2009-03-26 11:01:46 -07:00
head.S [IA64] kdump: Mask MCA/INIT on frozen cpus 2009-09-14 16:17:05 -07:00
ia64_ksyms.c IA64: includecheck fix: ia64, ia64_ksyms.c 2009-08-11 14:52:10 -07:00
init_task.c mm: consolidate init_mm definition 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
iosapic.c arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic: missing test after ioremap() 2009-08-11 14:52:11 -07:00
irq.c [IA64] remove obsolete irq_desc_t typedef 2009-06-15 14:34:31 -07:00
irq_ia64.c [IA64] remove obsolete irq_desc_t typedef 2009-06-15 14:34:31 -07:00
irq_lsapic.c [IA64] remove obsolete hw_interrupt_type 2009-06-15 14:35:10 -07:00
ivt.S ia64/pv_ops: paravirtualize mov = ar.itc. 2009-03-26 10:50:22 -07:00
jprobes.S
kprobes.c
machine_kexec.c [IA64] kexec: Unregister MCA handler before kexec 2009-09-14 16:18:17 -07:00
machvec.c
Makefile Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
Makefile.gate ia64/pv_ops: gate page paravirtualization. 2009-03-26 10:51:02 -07:00
mca.c Pull for-2.6.31 into release 2009-06-17 09:35:24 -07:00
mca_asm.S [IA64] kexec: Make INIT safe while transition to 2009-09-14 16:18:02 -07:00
mca_drv.c
mca_drv.h
mca_drv_asm.S
minstate.h
module.c [IA64] Convert ia64 to use int-ll64.h 2009-06-17 09:33:49 -07:00
msi_ia64.c [IA64] msi_ia64.c dmar_msi_type should be static 2009-06-15 14:35:54 -07:00
nr-irqs.c
numa.c
pal.S
palinfo.c [IA64] Convert ia64 to use int-ll64.h 2009-06-17 09:33:49 -07:00
paravirt.c ia64: remove some warnings. 2009-03-27 11:11:04 -07:00
paravirt_inst.h
paravirt_patch.c ia64/pv_op/binarypatch: add helper functions to support binary patching for paravirt_ops. 2009-03-26 11:02:31 -07:00
paravirt_patchlist.c [IA64] Fix build error in paravirt_patchlist.c 2009-06-17 09:04:40 -07:00
paravirt_patchlist.h ia64/pv_ops: gate page paravirtualization. 2009-03-26 10:51:02 -07:00
paravirtentry.S ia64/pv_ops: implement binary patching optimization for native. 2009-03-26 11:02:42 -07:00
patch.c ia64: remove some warnings. 2009-03-27 11:11:04 -07:00
pci-dma.c Bug Fix arch/ia64/kernel/pci-dma.c: fix recursive dma_supported() call in iommu_dma_supported() 2009-08-11 14:52:10 -07:00
pci-swiotlb.c Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support 2009-04-29 06:54:34 +01:00
perfmon.c [IA64] address compiler warnings perfmon.c/salinfo.c 2009-06-30 14:26:34 -07:00
perfmon_default_smpl.c
perfmon_generic.h
perfmon_itanium.h
perfmon_mckinley.h
perfmon_montecito.h
process.c Simplify copy_thread() 2009-04-02 19:04:51 -07:00
ptrace.c headers: smp_lock.h redux 2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
relocate_kernel.S [IA64] kdump: Mask INIT first in panic-kdump path 2009-09-14 16:18:54 -07:00
sal.c
salinfo.c [IA64] address compiler warnings perfmon.c/salinfo.c 2009-06-30 14:26:34 -07:00
setup.c [IA64] Convert ia64 to use int-ll64.h 2009-06-17 09:33:49 -07:00
sigframe.h
signal.c
smp.c [IA64] Convert ia64 to use int-ll64.h 2009-06-17 09:33:49 -07:00
smpboot.c [IA64] Convert ia64 to use int-ll64.h 2009-06-17 09:33:49 -07:00
sys_ia64.c
time.c [IA64] Convert ia64 to use int-ll64.h 2009-06-17 09:33:49 -07:00
topology.c ia64/topology.c: exit cache_add_dev when kobject_init_and_add fails 2009-08-11 14:52:11 -07:00
traps.c
unaligned.c
uncached.c Pull for-2.6.31 into release 2009-06-17 09:35:24 -07:00
unwind.c
unwind_decoder.c
unwind_i.h
vmlinux.lds.S Pull pvops into release branch 2009-03-31 14:25:08 -07:00