[PATCH v2] powerpc/crash: Fix non-smp kexec preparation

Hari Bathini hbathini at linux.ibm.com
Mon Feb 17 17:33:46 AEDT 2025


Hi Eddie,

On 11/02/25 9:50 pm, Eddie James wrote:
> In non-smp configurations, crash_kexec_prepare is never called in
> the crash shutdown path. One result of this is that the crashing_cpu
> variable is never set, preventing crash_save_cpu from storing the
> NT_PRSTATUS elf note in the core dump.
> 

Thanks for fixing this.
Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini at linux.ibm.com>

> Fixes: c7255058b543 ("powerpc/crash: save cpu register data in crash_smp_send_stop()")
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
>   - Use if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP)) instead of #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> 
>   arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c | 5 ++++-
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> index 9ac3266e49652..a325c1c02f96d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> @@ -359,7 +359,10 @@ void default_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
>   	if (TRAP(regs) == INTERRUPT_SYSTEM_RESET)
>   		is_via_system_reset = 1;
>   
> -	crash_smp_send_stop();
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP))
> +		crash_smp_send_stop();
> +	else
> +		crash_kexec_prepare();
>   
>   	crash_save_cpu(regs, crashing_cpu);
>   



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