Linux kernel
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Baoquan He
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Eric reported that handling corresponding crash hotplug event can be failed easily when many memory hotplug event are notified in a short period. They failed because failing to take __kexec_lock. ======= [ 78.714569] Fallback order for Node 0: 0 [ 78.714575] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 1817886 [ 78.717133] Policy zone: Normal [ 78.724423] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate [ 78.727207] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate [ 80.056643] PEFILE: Unsigned PE binary ======= The memory hotplug events are notified very quickly and very many, while the handling of crash hotplug is much slower relatively. So the atomic variable __kexec_lock and kexec_trylock() can't guarantee the serialization of crash hotplug handling. Here, add a new mutex lock __crash_hotplug_lock to serialize crash hotplug handling specifically. This doesn't impact the usage of __kexec_lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926120905.392903-1-bhe@redhat.com Fixes: 24726275 ("crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support") Signed-off-by:Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>