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When we enter into fadump crash path via system reset we fail to update
the pstore.
On the system reset path we first update the pstore then we go for fadump
crash. But the problem here is when all the CPUs try to get the pstore
lock to initiate the pstore write, only one CPUs will acquire the lock
and proceed with the pstore write. Since it in NMI context CPUs that fail
to get lock do not wait for their turn to write to the pstore and simply
proceed with the next operation which is fadump crash. One of the CPU who
proceeded with fadump crash path triggers the crash and does not wait for
the CPU who gets the pstore lock to complete the pstore update.
Timeline diagram to depicts the sequence of events that leads to an
unsuccessful pstore update when we hit fadump crash path via system reset.
1 2 3 ... n CPU Threads
| | | |
| | | |
Reached to -->|--->|---->| ----------->|
system reset | | | |
path | | | |
| | | |
Try to -->|--->|---->|------------>|
acquire the | | | |
pstore lock | | | |
| | | |
| | | |
Got the -->| +->| | |<-+
pstore lock | | | | | |--> Didn't get the
| --------------------------+ lock and moving
| | | | ahead on fadump
| | | | crash path
| | | |
Begins the -->| | | |
process to | | | |<-- Got the chance to
update the | | | | trigger the crash
pstore | -> | | ... <- |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |<-- Triggers the
| | | | | | crash
| | | | | | ^
| | | | | | |
Writing to -->| | | | | | |
pstore | | | | | | |
| | |
^ |__________________| |
| CPU Relax |
| |
+-----------------------------------------+
|
v
Race: crash triggered before pstore
update completes
To avoid this race condition a barrier is added on crash_fadump path, it
prevents the CPU to trigger the crash until all the online CPUs completes
their task.
A barrier is added to make sure all the secondary CPUs hit the
crash_fadump function before we initiates the crash. A timeout is kept to
ensure the primary CPU (one who initiates the crash) do not wait for
secondary CPUs indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713052435.183750-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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