[PATCH] powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode
Michael Neuling
mikey at neuling.org
Tue Jul 5 16:40:10 EST 2011
The existing code it pretty ugly. How about we clean it up even more
like this?
From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
We check for timeout expiry in the outer loop, but we also need to
check it in the inner loop or we can lock up forever waiting for a
CPU to hit real mode.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Cc: <stable at kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
index 4e6ee94..cc6a9d5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c
@@ -242,12 +242,8 @@ static void crash_kexec_wait_realmode(int cpu)
while (paca[i].kexec_state < KEXEC_STATE_REAL_MODE) {
barrier();
- if (!cpu_possible(i)) {
+ if (!cpu_possible(i) || !cpu_online(i) || (msecs <= 0))
break;
- }
- if (!cpu_online(i)) {
- break;
- }
msecs--;
mdelay(1);
}
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