powerpc: System reset avoid interleaving oops using die synchronisation
authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 16:49:22 +0000 (02:49 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:02:06 +0000 (11:02 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 4552d128c26e0f0f27a5bd2fadc24092b8f6c1d7 ]

The die() oops path contains a serializing lock to prevent oops
messages from being interleaved. In the case of a system reset
initiated oops (e.g., qemu nmi command), __die was being called
which lacks that synchronisation and oops reports could be
interleaved across CPUs.

A recent patch 4388c9b3a6ee7 ("powerpc: Do not send system reset
request through the oops path") changed this to __die to avoid
the debugger() call, but there is no real harm to calling it twice
if the first time fell through. So go back to using die() here.
This was observed to fix the problem.

Fixes: 4388c9b3a6ee7 ("powerpc: Do not send system reset request through the oops path")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c

index 13c9dcdcba6922e32d4c00267201f47e9498f805..d17007451f625a90c95f32d9835e82ae2d21be68 100644 (file)
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ void system_reset_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
         * No debugger or crash dump registered, print logs then
         * panic.
         */
-       __die("System Reset", regs, SIGABRT);
+       die("System Reset", regs, SIGABRT);
 
        mdelay(2*MSEC_PER_SEC); /* Wait a little while for others to print */
        add_taint(TAINT_DIE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);