Currently, if printk lock (logbuf_lock) is held by other thread during
crash, there is a chance of deadlocking the crash on next printk, and
blocking a possibly desired kdump.
After sending IPI to all other CPUs, make printk enter in NMI context,
as it will use per-cpu buffers to store the message, and avoid locking
logbuf_lock.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leona...@linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
index d488311efab1..9b73e3991bf4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ static void crash_kexec_prepare_cpus(int cpu)
crash_send_ipi(crash_ipi_callback);
smp_wmb();
+ printk_nmi_enter();
again:
/*
--
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