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author | Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2011-03-29 12:35:04 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-06-17 10:17:12 +0200 |
commit | d8ad7d1123a960cc9f276bd499f9325c6f5e1bd1 (patch) | |
tree | 0260df1b5b5b1601f56229c7dde54594d2dfebcb /init/main.c | |
parent | eb96c925152fc289311e5d7e956b919e9b60ab53 (diff) | |
download | linux-d8ad7d1123a960cc9f276bd499f9325c6f5e1bd1.tar.bz2 |
generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts
There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due
to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI
comes before call_single_queue is initialized.
To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init()
and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be
initialized before enabling interrupts.
The details of the crash are:
(1) 2nd kernel boots up
(2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled
in start_kernel().
(3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue
is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the
generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer
dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access
&q->list.next.
Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data()
to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable()
in start_kernel().
Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/main.c')
-rw-r--r-- | init/main.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index cafba67c13bf..d7211faed2ad 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -542,6 +542,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void) timekeeping_init(); time_init(); profile_init(); + call_function_init(); if (!irqs_disabled()) printk(KERN_CRIT "start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were " "enabled early\n"); |