[PATCH v2] powerpc/fadump: invoke ibm,os-term with rtas_call_unlocked()
Mahesh J Salgaonkar
mahesh at linux.ibm.com
Fri Jun 9 23:51:31 AEST 2023
On 2023-06-09 12:44:04 Fri, Hari Bathini wrote:
> Invoke ibm,os-term call with rtas_call_unlocked(), without using the
> RTAS spinlock, to avoid deadlock in the unlikely event of a machine
> crash while making an RTAS call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
> index c087eeee320f..a8192e5b1a5f 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
> @@ -1587,6 +1587,7 @@ static bool ibm_extended_os_term;
> void rtas_os_term(char *str)
> {
> s32 token = rtas_function_token(RTAS_FN_IBM_OS_TERM);
> + static struct rtas_args args;
> int status;
>
> /*
> @@ -1607,7 +1608,8 @@ void rtas_os_term(char *str)
> * schedules.
> */
> do {
> - status = rtas_call(token, 1, 1, NULL, __pa(rtas_os_term_buf));
> + rtas_call_unlocked(&args, token, 1, 1, NULL, __pa(rtas_os_term_buf));
> + status = be32_to_cpu(args.rets[0]);
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>
> } while (rtas_busy_delay_time(status));
Thanks,
-Mahesh.
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