[PATCH 0/3] Fix NMI IPI timeouts

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 13:01:04 AEDT 2018


The first two patches fix timeouts and deadlocks using NMI IPIs.
The xmon deadlock fails with a timeout so it wasn't really noticed.
The infinite timeout only hits when the system is in really bad shape
or the sreset handler is broken somehow (e.g., running a guest and no
KVM test in the handler).

Patch 1 is a necessary fix. Patch 2 is a bigger change, we could live
without it because the sender will eventually time out and break the
deadlock.

Thanks,
Nick

Nicholas Piggin (3):
  powerpc/smp: Fix NMI IPI timeout
  powerpc/smp: Fix NMI IPI xmon timeout
  powerpc/smp: __smp_send_nmi_ipi static

 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 93 +++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

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2.19.2



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