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Sourabh Jain
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kexec/crash: no crash update when kexec in progress
The following errors are observed when kexec is done with SMT=off on powerpc. [ 358.458385] Removing IBM Power 842 compression device [ 374.795734] kexec_core: Starting new kernel [ 374.795748] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1. [ 374.875695] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate [ 374.935833] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2. [ 375.015664] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate snip.. [ 375.515823] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6. [ 375.635667] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate [ 375.695836] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7. To avoid kexec kernel boot failure on PowerPC, all the present CPUs that are offline are brought online during kexec. For more information, refer to commit e8e5c2155b00 ("powerpc/kexec: Fix orphaned offline CPUs across kexec"). Bringing the CPUs online triggers the crash hotplug handler, crash_handle_hotplug_event(), to update the kdump image. Since the system is on the kexec kernel boot path and the kexec lock is held, the crash_handle_hotplug_event() function fails to acquire the same lock to update the kdump image, resulting in the error messages mentioned above. To fix this, return from crash_handle_hotplug_event() without printing the error message if kexec is in progress. The same applies to the crash_check_hotplug_support() function. Return 0 if kexec is in progress because kernel is not in a position to update the kdump image. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240921103745.560430-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan he <bhe@redhat.com> Reported-by: Sachin P Bappalige <sachinpb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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