From d8ad7d1123a960cc9f276bd499f9325c6f5e1bd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takao Indoh Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:35:04 -0400 Subject: 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 --- init/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index cafba67c13b..d7211faed2a 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -542,6 +542,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void) timekeeping_init(); time_init(); profile_init(); + call_function_init(); if (!irqs_disabled()) printk(KERN_CRIT "start_kernel(): bug: interrupts were " "enabled early\n"); -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258