This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode

to the 2.6.33-longterm tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-kdump-fix-timeout-in-crash_kexec_wait_realmode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.33 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.33 longterm 
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 63f21a56f1cc0b800a4c00349c59448f82473d19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 20:40:10 +0000
Subject: powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode

From: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>

commit 63f21a56f1cc0b800a4c00349c59448f82473d19 upstream.

The existing code it pretty ugly.  How about we clean it up even more
like this?

From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>

We check for timeout expiry in the outer loop, but we also need to
check it in the inner loop or we can lock up forever waiting for a
CPU to hit real mode.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c |    6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
@@ -176,12 +176,8 @@ static void crash_kexec_wait_realmode(in
 
                while (paca[i].kexec_state < KEXEC_STATE_REAL_MODE) {
                        barrier();
-                       if (!cpu_possible(i)) {
+                       if (!cpu_possible(i) || !cpu_online(i) || (msecs <= 0))
                                break;
-                       }
-                       if (!cpu_online(i)) {
-                               break;
-                       }
                        msecs--;
                        mdelay(1);
                }


Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.33 which might be from 
[email protected] are

/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.33/queue-2.6.33/powerpc-kdump-fix-timeout-in-crash_kexec_wait_realmode.patch

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