From: Takao Indoh Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:35:04 +0000 (-0400) Subject: generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling... X-Git-Tag: v3.0-rc4~11^3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d8ad7d1123a960cc9f276bd499f9325c6f5e1bd1;p=pandora-kernel.git generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before enabling interrupts There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI comes before call_single_queue is initialized. To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init() and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be initialized before enabling interrupts. The details of the crash are: (1) 2nd kernel boots up (2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled in start_kernel(). (3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access &q->list.next. Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data() to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable() in start_kernel(). Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh Reviewed-by: WANG Cong Acked-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Milton Miller Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed