Hello Vivek,
In our tests we ran into the following scenario:
Two CPUs have called panic at the same time. The first CPU called
crash_kexec() and the second CPU called smp_send_stop() in panic()
before crash_kexec() finished on the first CPU. So the second CPU
stopped the first CPU and therefore kdump failed.
1st CPU:
panic()->crash_kexec()->mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)-> do kdump
2nd CPU:
panic()->crash_kexec()->kexec_mutex already held by 1st CPU
->smp_send_stop()-> stop CPU 1 (stop kdump)
How should we fix this problem? One possibility could be to do
smp_send_stop() before we call crash_kexec().
What do you think?
Michael
