This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc, kexec: Fix "Processor X is stuck" issue during kexec from ST mode
to the 3.14-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-fix-processor-x-is-stuck-issue-during-kexec-from-st-mode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 011e4b02f1da156ac7fea28a9da878f3c23af739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:25:34 +0530
Subject: powerpc, kexec: Fix "Processor X is stuck" issue during kexec from ST mode
From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 011e4b02f1da156ac7fea28a9da878f3c23af739 upstream.
If we try to perform a kexec when the machine is in ST (Single-Threaded) mode
(ppc64_cpu --smt=off), the kexec operation doesn't succeed properly, and we
get the following messages during boot:
[ 0.089866] POWER8 performance monitor hardware support registered
[ 0.089985] power8-pmu: PMAO restore workaround active.
[ 5.095419] Processor 1 is stuck.
[ 10.097933] Processor 2 is stuck.
[ 15.100480] Processor 3 is stuck.
[ 20.102982] Processor 4 is stuck.
[ 25.105489] Processor 5 is stuck.
[ 30.108005] Processor 6 is stuck.
[ 35.110518] Processor 7 is stuck.
[ 40.113369] Processor 9 is stuck.
[ 45.115879] Processor 10 is stuck.
[ 50.118389] Processor 11 is stuck.
[ 55.120904] Processor 12 is stuck.
[ 60.123425] Processor 13 is stuck.
[ 65.125970] Processor 14 is stuck.
[ 70.128495] Processor 15 is stuck.
[ 75.131316] Processor 17 is stuck.
Note that only the sibling threads are stuck, while the primary threads (0, 8,
16 etc) boot just fine. Looking closer at the previous step of kexec, we observe
that kexec tries to wakeup (bring online) the sibling threads of all the cores,
before performing kexec:
[ 9464.131231] Starting new kernel
[ 9464.148507] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1.
[ 9464.148552] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2.
[ 9464.148600] kexec: Waking offline cpu 3.
[ 9464.148636] kexec: Waking offline cpu 4.
[ 9464.148671] kexec: Waking offline cpu 5.
[ 9464.148708] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6.
[ 9464.148743] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7.
[ 9464.148779] kexec: Waking offline cpu 9.
[ 9464.148815] kexec: Waking offline cpu 10.
[ 9464.148851] kexec: Waking offline cpu 11.
[ 9464.148887] kexec: Waking offline cpu 12.
[ 9464.148922] kexec: Waking offline cpu 13.
[ 9464.148958] kexec: Waking offline cpu 14.
[ 9464.148994] kexec: Waking offline cpu 15.
[ 9464.149030] kexec: Waking offline cpu 17.
Instrumenting this piece of code revealed that the cpu_up() operation actually
fails with -EBUSY. Thus, only the primary threads of all the cores are online
during kexec, and hence this is a sure-shot receipe for disaster, as explained
in commit e8e5c2155b (powerpc/kexec: Fix orphaned offline CPUs across kexec),
as well as in the comment above wake_offline_cpus().
It turns out that cpu_up() was returning -EBUSY because the variable
'cpu_hotplug_disabled' was set to 1; and this disabling of CPU hotplug was done
by migrate_to_reboot_cpu() inside kernel_kexec().
Now, migrate_to_reboot_cpu() was originally written with the assumption that
any further code will not need to perform CPU hotplug, since we are anyway in
the reboot path. However, kexec is clearly not such a case, since we depend on
onlining CPUs, atleast on powerpc.
So re-enable cpu-hotplug after returning from migrate_to_reboot_cpu() in the
kexec path, to fix this regression in kexec on powerpc.
Also, wrap the cpu_up() in powerpc kexec code within a WARN_ON(), so that we
can catch such issues more easily in the future.
Fixes: c97102ba963 (kexec: migrate to reboot cpu)
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 2 +-
kernel/kexec.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ static void wake_offline_cpus(void)
if (!cpu_online(cpu)) {
printk(KERN_INFO "kexec: Waking offline cpu %d.\n",
cpu);
- cpu_up(cpu);
+ WARN_ON(cpu_up(cpu));
}
}
}
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1682,6 +1682,14 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
kexec_in_progress = true;
kernel_restart_prepare(NULL);
migrate_to_reboot_cpu();
+
+ /*
+ * migrate_to_reboot_cpu() disables CPU hotplug assuming that
+ * no further code needs to use CPU hotplug (which is true in
+ * the reboot case). However, the kexec path depends on using
+ * CPU hotplug again; so re-enable it here.
+ */
+ cpu_hotplug_enable();
printk(KERN_EMERG "Starting new kernel\n");
machine_shutdown();
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/powerpc-kexec-fix-processor-x-is-stuck-issue-during-kexec-from-st-mode.patch
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