Re: [V4 PATCH 2/4] panic/x86: Allow cpus to save registers even if they are looping in NMI context

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Sep 30 2015 - 07:50:39 EST


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 08:28:07PM +0900, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
> @@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ void machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
> static nmi_shootdown_cb shootdown_callback;
>
> static atomic_t waiting_for_crash_ipi;
> +static int crash_ipi_done;
>
> static int crash_nmi_callback(unsigned int val, struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> @@ -779,6 +780,7 @@ void nmi_shootdown_cpus(nmi_shootdown_cb callback)
> wmb();
>
> smp_send_nmi_allbutself();
> + crash_ipi_done = 1; /* Kick cpus looping in nmi context */

I would suggest using WRITE_ONCE() for that, because without the
volatile the compiler need not actually emit the store until after the
whole waiting thing _IF_ it can inline the whole thing.

Currently udelay() will end up being a function call and will therefore
force the store to be emitted, but I'd rather not rely on that.

>
> msecs = 1000; /* Wait at most a second for the other cpus to stop */
> while ((atomic_read(&waiting_for_crash_ipi) > 0) && msecs) {
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