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For v3.3, I added code to use the NMI to stop other cpus in the panic case. The idea was to make sure all cpus on the system were definitely halted to help serialize the panic path to execute the rest of the code on a single cpu. The main problem it was trying to solve was how to stop a cpu that was spinning with its irqs disabled. A IPI irq would be stuck and couldn't get in there, but an NMI could. Things were great until we had another conversation about some pstore changes. Because some of the backend pstore still uses spinlocks to protect the device access, things could get ugly if a panic happened and we were stuck spinning on a lock. Now with the NMI shutting down cpus, we could assume no other cpus were running and just bust the spin lock and proceed. The counter argument was, well if you do that the backend could be in a screwed up state and you might not be able to save anything as a result. If we could have just given the cpu a little more time to finish things, we could have grabbed the spin lock cleanly and everything would have been fine. Well, how do give a cpu a 'little more time' in the panic case? For the most part you can't without spinning on the lock and even in that case, how long do you spin for? So instead of making it ugly in the pstore code, just mimic the idea that stop_machine had, which is block on an IRQ IPI until the remote cpu has re-enabled interrupts and left the critical region. Which is what happens now using REBOOT_IRQ. Then leave the NMI case for those cpus that are truly stuck after a short time. This leaves the current behaviour alone and just handle a corner case. Most systems should never have to enter the NMI code and if they do, print out a message in case the NMI itself causes another issue. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336761675-24296-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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