This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/kexec: Disable hard IRQ before kexec
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-kexec-disable-hard-irq-before-kexec.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8520e443aa56cc157b015205ea53e7b9fc831291 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phileas Fogg <phileas-fogg@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:32:19 +0100
Subject: powerpc/kexec: Disable hard IRQ before kexec
From: Phileas Fogg <phileas-fogg@xxxxxxx>
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-fogg@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from phileas-fogg@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/powerpc-kexec-disable-hard-irq-before-kexec.patch
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