On 11/08/2013 07:14 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
> Hi Bao,
>
> This patch fixes the issue for me too. I noticed that we have generic
> function migrate_to_reboot_cpu() to achieve what we want and rest of
> the reboot paths are using it. So how about using that function. I
> wrote the new patch below. It works for me. Can you please give it
> a try.
>
> Thanks
> Vivek
>
Is this path exercised for the kdump flow? migrate_to_reboot_cpu() is
unsafe in that case.
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/kexec.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/kexec.c 2013-10-16 00:30:50.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/kexec.c 2013-11-08 21:34:02.492072375 -0500
> @@ -1676,6 +1676,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
> #endif
> {
> kernel_restart_prepare(NULL);
> + migrate_to_reboot_cpu();
> printk(KERN_EMERG "Starting new kernel\n");
> machine_shutdown();
> }
>
