On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:22 AM, James Hogan <james.ho...@imgtec.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 04/03/15 23:59, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>> If a machine-specific hook is not implemented for restart, poweroff,
>> or halt, fall back to halting secondary CPUs, disabling interrupts,
>> and spinning. In the case of restart, attempt to restart the system
>> via do_kernel_restart() (which will call any registered restart
>> handlers) before halting.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abres...@chromium.org>
>> ---
>> arch/mips/kernel/reset.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/reset.c b/arch/mips/kernel/reset.c
>> index 07fc524..87b1f08 100644
>> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/reset.c
>> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/reset.c
>> @@ -29,16 +29,36 @@ void machine_restart(char *command)
>> {
>> if (_machine_restart)
>> _machine_restart(command);
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>> + smp_send_stop();
>
> Maybe local_irq_disable should be before smp_send_stop() to avoid
> deadlocks (same below)?
>
> See for example commit 44424c34049f41123a3a8b4853822f47f4ff03a2 ("ARM:
> 7803/1: Fix deadlock scenario with smp_send_stop()").
Actually, disabling IRQs before calling smp_send_stop() triggers the
WARN in kernel/smp.c:smp_call_function_many(), but I think we can
simply disable preemption to prevent the deadlock.
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