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smp_send_stop can lock up the IPI path for any subsequent calls,
because the receiving CPUs spin in their handler function. This
started becoming a problem with the addition of an smp_send_stop
call in the reboot path, because panics can reboot after doing
their own smp_send_stop.
The NMI IPI variant was fixed with ac61c11566 ("powerpc: Fix
smp_send_stop NMI IPI handling"), which leaves the smp_call_function
variant.
This is fixed by having smp_send_stop only ever do the
smp_call_function once. This is a bit less robust than the NMI IPI
fix, because any other call to smp_call_function after smp_send_stop
could deadlock, but that has always been the case, and it was not
been a problem before.
Fixes: f2748bdfe1573 ("powerpc/powernv: Always stop secondaries before reboot/shutdown")
Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.