Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] x86/apic: Fix restoring boot irq mode in reboot and kexec/kdump

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Feb 17 2018 - 05:18:11 EST



* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > * Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> This is v5 post. Newly added patch 0002 includes the change
> >> related to KEXEC_JUMP path. Patch 0003 only includes the
> >> regression fix.
> >>
> >> A regression bug was introduced in below commit.
> >> commit 522e66464467 ("x86/apic: Disable I/O APIC before shutdown of the local APIC")
> >>
> >> It caused the action to fail that we try to restore boot irq mode
> >> in reboot and kexec/kdump. Details can be seen in patch 0003.
> >>
> >> Warning can always be seen during kdump kernel boot on qemu/kvm
> >> platform. Our customer even saw casual kdump kernel hang once in
> >> ~30 attempts during stress testing of kdump on KVM machine.
> >>
> >> v4->v5:
> >> Take out the change related to KEXEC_JUMP to a new patch 0002
> >> according to Eric's suggestion.
> >> Patch 0003 in this series only includes the regression fix.
> >>
> >> v3->v4:
> >> Eric pointed out that in patch 0002 the change related to
> >> KEXEC_JUMP is not right.
> >> Correct it.
> >>
> >> Add Fixes tag and Cc to stable.
> >
> > Eric, are these patches looking good to you now?
>
> The result of applying the patches looks good.
> Barring whatever fix to header files that kbuild seems to find necessary.
>
> I wish patches 1 2 and 4 were all the same patch. That I think would
> make reading the patches a bit easier, and make the backports clearer.
> But at this point that is just me bike-shedding.
>
> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

Ingo