Nicholas Piggin
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smp_send_stop can lock up the IPI path for any subsequent calls, because the receiving CPUs spin in their handler function. This started becoming a problem with the addition of an smp_send_stop call in the reboot path, because panics can reboot after doing their own smp_send_stop. The NMI IPI variant was fixed withac61c11566("powerpc: Fix smp_send_stop NMI IPI handling"), which leaves the smp_call_function variant. This is fixed by having smp_send_stop only ever do the smp_call_function once. This is a bit less robust than the NMI IPI fix, because any other call to smp_call_function after smp_send_stop could deadlock, but that has always been the case, and it was not been a problem before. Fixes:f2748bdfe1("powerpc/powernv: Always stop secondaries before reboot/shutdown") Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.