3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Phileas Fogg <phileas-f...@mail.ru> commit 8520e443aa56cc157b015205ea53e7b9fc831291 upstream. Disable hard IRQ before kexec a new kernel image. Not doing it can result in corrupted data in the memory segments reserved for the new kernel. Signed-off-by: Phileas Fogg <phileas-f...@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c @@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ static int kexec_all_irq_disabled = 0; static void kexec_smp_down(void *arg) { local_irq_disable(); + hard_irq_disable(); + mb(); /* make sure our irqs are disabled before we say they are */ get_paca()->kexec_state = KEXEC_STATE_IRQS_OFF; while(kexec_all_irq_disabled == 0) @@ -244,6 +246,8 @@ static void kexec_prepare_cpus(void) wake_offline_cpus(); smp_call_function(kexec_smp_down, NULL, /* wait */0); local_irq_disable(); + hard_irq_disable(); + mb(); /* make sure IRQs are disabled before we say they are */ get_paca()->kexec_state = KEXEC_STATE_IRQS_OFF; @@ -281,6 +285,7 @@ static void kexec_prepare_cpus(void) if (ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down) ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down(0, 0); local_irq_disable(); + hard_irq_disable(); } #endif /* SMP */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html