On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 04:36:28PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On 07/30/2018 11:57 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:46:24AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > >> On 07/30/2018 11:22 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > >>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 05:16:42PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > >>>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:29:21AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > >>>>> machine_kexec flushes the reboot_code_buffer from the icache > >>>>> after stopping the other cpus. > >>>>> > >>>>> Commit 3b8c9f1cdfc5 ("arm64: IPI each CPU after invalidating the I-cache > >>>>> for kernel mappings") added an IPI call to flush_icache_range, which > >>>>> causes a hang here, so replace the call with __flush_icache_range > >>>> > >>>> While machine_kexec() may be called with interrupts disabled (IIUC) and > >>>> we shouldn't IPI other CPUs, I don't understand why it hangs here. Are > >>>> there any other CPUs online at this point? > >>> > >>> The BUG_ON and WARN_ON at the start of machine_kexec() suggest to me that > >>> this should only happen if we're kexec'ing a crash kernel and > >>> smp_crash_stop_failed(). Is that something we need to care about? > >> > >> I observed the hang trying to kexec a crash kernel and I did not see the > >> warning that smp_crash_stop_failed(). I'm not exactly sure why > >> flush_icache_range() hung (but it did), but I think that > >> __flush_icache_range() makes more sense here anyway. > > > > Yeah, I'll pick the patch up, but it would be nice to understand the > > failure case you observed. > > I see why it failed. ipi_cpu_crash_stop() does not call > set_cpu_online(cpu, false) the way ipi_cpu_stop() does. So > cpu_online_mask is still populated with the stopped cpus. > > Any reason why it isn't called there?
Because I wanted that saved cpu-related state be as close to as it was at panic. If cpus go offline, the core dump would show that all the cores but a panicked one be offline whether or not they actually were. Thanks, -Takahiro AKASHI > Thanks, > Dave > > > > > Will > >