From d8ad7d1123a960cc9f276bd499f9325c6f5e1bd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takao Indoh Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:35:04 -0400 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: WANG Cong Acked-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Milton Miller Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/smp.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c index 73a195193558..fb67dfa8394e 100644 --- a/kernel/smp.c +++ b/kernel/smp.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata hotplug_cfd_notifier = { .notifier_call = hotplug_cfd, }; -static int __cpuinit init_call_single_data(void) +void __init call_function_init(void) { void *cpu = (void *)(long)smp_processor_id(); int i; @@ -88,10 +88,7 @@ static int __cpuinit init_call_single_data(void) hotplug_cfd(&hotplug_cfd_notifier, CPU_UP_PREPARE, cpu); register_cpu_notifier(&hotplug_cfd_notifier); - - return 0; } -early_initcall(init_call_single_data); /* * csd_lock/csd_unlock used to serialize access to per-cpu csd resources -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151