Hello Michael and Boaquan
On 01/08/24 12:21, Sourabh Jain wrote:
Hello Michael,
On 01/08/24 08:04, Michael Ellerman wrote:
Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
The following errors are observed when kexec is done with SMT=off on
powerpc.
[ 358.458385] Removing IBM Power 842 compression device
[ 374.795734] kexec_core: Starting new kernel
[ 374.795748] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1.
[ 374.875695] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be
inaccurate
[ 374.935833] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2.
[ 375.015664] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be
inaccurate
snip..
[ 375.515823] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6.
[ 375.635667] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be
inaccurate
[ 375.695836] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7.
Are they actually errors though? Do they block the actual kexec from
happening? Or are they just warnings in dmesg?
The kexec kernel boots fine.
This warning appears regardless of whether the kdump kernel is loaded.
However, when the kdump kernel is loaded, we will not be able to
update the kdump image (FDT).
I think this should be fine given that kexec is in progress.
Please let me know your opinion.
Because the fix looks like it could be racy.
It seems like it is racy, but given that kexec takes the lock first
and then
brings the CPU up, which triggers the kdump image, which always fails to
update the kdump image because it could not take the same lock.
Note: the kexec lock is not released unless kexec boot fails.
Any comments or suggestions on this fix?
Thanks,
Sourabh Jain
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