Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 11b64a63c0f8..c823f3001e12 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -853,7 +853,12 @@ struct kimage *kexec_image;
 struct kimage *kexec_crash_image;
 int kexec_load_disabled;
 
-void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
+/*
+ * No panic_cpu check version of crash_kexec().  This function is called
+ * only when panic_cpu holds the current CPU number; this is the only CPU
+ * which processes crash_kexec routines.
+ */
+void __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	/* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load
 	 * running on one cpu from replacing the crash kernel
@@ -876,6 +881,29 @@ void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	}
 }
 
+void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	int old_cpu, this_cpu;
+
+	/*
+	 * Only one CPU is allowed to execute the crash_kexec() code as with
+	 * panic().  Otherwise parallel calls of panic() and crash_kexec()
+	 * may stop each other.  To exclude them, we use panic_cpu here too.
+	 */
+	this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+	old_cpu = atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID, this_cpu);
+	if (old_cpu == PANIC_CPU_INVALID) {
+		/* This is the 1st CPU which comes here, so go ahead. */
+		__crash_kexec(regs);
+
+		/*
+		 * Reset panic_cpu to allow another panic()/crash_kexec()
+		 * call.
+		 */
+		atomic_set(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID);
+	}
+}
+
 size_t crash_get_memory_size(void)
 {
 	size_t size = 0;