Re: Re: Re: [PATCH] [BUGFIX] crash/ioapic: Prevent crash_kexec() from deadlocking of ioapic_lock

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Hi Don,

Sorry for the late reply.

(2013/08/22 22:11), Don Zickus wrote:
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 05:38:07PM +0900, Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote:
So, I agree with Eric, let's remove the disable_IO_APIC() stuff and keep
the code simpler.

Thank you for commenting about my patch.
I didn't know you already have submitted the patches for this deadlock
problem.

I can't answer definitively right now that no problems are induced by
removing disable_IO_APIC(). However, my patch should be work well (and
has already been merged to -tip tree). So how about taking my patch at
first, and then discussing the removal of disabled_IO_APIC()?

It doesn't matter to me.  My orignal patch last year was similar to yours
until it was suggested that we were working around a problem which was we
shouldn't touch the IO_APIC code on panic.  Then I wrote the removal of
disable_IO_APIC patch and did lots of testing on it.  I don't think I have
seen any issues with it (just the removal of disabling the lapic stuff).

Yes, you really did a lot of testing about this problem according to
your patch(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/31/391). Although you
said jiffies calibration code does not need the PIT in
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2012-February/006017.html,
I don't understand yet why we can remove disable_IO_APIC.
Would you please explain about the calibration codes?

By the way, can we remove disable_IO_APIC even if an old dump capture
kernel is used?

Thanks,
Yoshihiro YUNOMAE

Regardless, your patch fixes a similar problem we saw on RHEL, so I am
happy either way.  The removal of the disable_IO_APIC() just makes the
code look cleaner.

Cheers,
Don
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