Re: [PATCH v6] arm64: sdei: abort running SDEI handlers during crash
From: D Scott Phillips
Date: Mon Jul 24 2023 - 16:32:18 EST
D Scott Phillips <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Interrupts are blocked in SDEI context, per the SDEI spec: "The client
> interrupts cannot preempt the event handler." If we crashed in the SDEI
> handler-running context (as with ACPI's AGDI) then we need to clean up the
> SDEI state before proceeding to the crash kernel so that the crash kernel
> can have working interrupts.
>
> Track the active SDEI handler per-cpu so that we can COMPLETE_AND_RESUME
> the handler, discarding the interrupted context.
>
> Fixes: f5df26961853 ("arm64: kernel: Add arch-specific SDEI entry code and CPU masking")
> Signed-off-by: D Scott Phillips <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi James, ping on this