Re: [BUGFIX PATCH][RESEND] kexec & iosapic: kexec oops when iosapicwas removed

From: Hanjun Guo
Date: Thu Aug 16 2012 - 06:29:58 EST


On 2012/8/13 10:54, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> vec = irq_to_vector(irq);
>> list_for_each_entry(rte, &info->rtes,
>> rte_list) {
>> + if (rte->refcnt == NO_REF_RTE)
>> + continue;
>> +
>> iosapic_write(rte->iosapic,
>> IOSAPIC_RTE_LOW(rte->rte_index),
>> IOSAPIC_MASK|vec);
>
> This will work - but is it papering over a problem when you removed the
> iosapic? Should we really have removed this "rte" from rte_list when the
> iosapic was removed?
>
> -Tony
>

Hi Tony,
Thanks for your comments, and sorry for the late reply.

We only set rte->refcnt to NO_REF_RTE if no device attach to this RTE when
unregister a GSI, and increase the rte->refcnt if the RTE is already existing
when register a GSI, so "rte" will not removed from rte_list when the
iosapic is removed.

Actually, the rte_list will keep static when remove/add a existing iosapic
after boot up.

Should we remove the RTE from the rte_list? if yes, we will have more
to do than this patch.

Thanks
Hanjun Guo

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