Re: [BUG REPORT] x86/apic: CPU Hang in x86 VM During Kdump

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, Jun 04 2025 at 08:33, Yipeng Zou wrote:
> Recently, A issue has been reported that CPU hang in x86 VM.
>
> The CPU halted during Kdump likely due to IPI issues when one CPU was
> rebooting and another was in Kdump:
>
> CPU0			  CPU2
> ========================  ======================
> reboot			  Panic
> machine shutdown	  Kdump
> 			  machine shutdown
> stop other cpus
> 			  stop other cpus
> ...			  ...
> local_irq_disable	  local_irq_disable
> send_IPIs(REBOOT)	  [critical regions]
> [critical regions]	  1) send_IPIs(REBOOT)

After staring more at it, this makes absolutely no sense at all.

stop_other_cpus() does:

	/* Only proceed if this is the first CPU to reach this code */
	old_cpu = -1;
	this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
	if (!atomic_try_cmpxchg(&stopping_cpu, &old_cpu, this_cpu))
		return;

So CPU2 _cannot_ reach the code, which issues the reboot IPIs, because
at that point @stopping_cpu == 0 ergo the cmpxchg() fails.

So what actually happens in this case is:

CPU0			  CPU2
========================  ======================
reboot			  Panic
machine shutdown	  Kdump
			  machine_crash_shutdown()
stop other cpus           local_irq_disable()
try_cmpxchg() succeeds	  stop other cpus
...		          try_cmpxchg() fails	  
send_IPIs(REBOOT)	  --> REBOOT vector becomes pending in IRR
wait timeout

And from there on everything becomes a lottery as CPU0 continues to
execute and CPU2 proceeds and jumps into the crash kernel...

This whole logic is broken...

Nevertheless the patch I sent earlier is definitely making things more
robust, but it won't solve your particular problem.

Thanks,

        tglx