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| author | Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2011-03-29 12:35:04 -0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-06-17 10:17:12 +0200 |
| commit | d8ad7d1123a960cc9f276bd499f9325c6f5e1bd1 (patch) | |
| tree | 0260df1b5b5b1601f56229c7dde54594d2dfebcb /kernel/smp.c | |
| parent | eb96c925152fc289311e5d7e956b919e9b60ab53 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d8ad7d1123a960cc9f276bd499f9325c6f5e1bd1.tar.gz lwn-d8ad7d1123a960cc9f276bd499f9325c6f5e1bd1.zip | |
generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts
There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.
To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.
The details of the crash are:
(1) 2nd kernel boots up
(2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
in start_kernel().
(3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
&q->list.next.
Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().
Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/smp.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/smp.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c index 73a195193558..fb67dfa8394e 100644 --- a/kernel/smp.c +++ b/kernel/smp.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata hotplug_cfd_notifier = { .notifier_call = hotplug_cfd, }; -static int __cpuinit init_call_single_data(void) +void __init call_function_init(void) { void *cpu = (void *)(long)smp_processor_id(); int i; @@ -88,10 +88,7 @@ static int __cpuinit init_call_single_data(void) hotplug_cfd(&hotplug_cfd_notifier, CPU_UP_PREPARE, cpu); register_cpu_notifier(&hotplug_cfd_notifier); - - return 0; } -early_initcall(init_call_single_data); /* * csd_lock/csd_unlock used to serialize access to per-cpu csd resources |