Nathan Lynch
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The pseries partition suspend sequence requires that all active CPUs call H_JOIN, which suspends all but one of them with interrupts disabled. The "chosen" CPU is then to call ibm,suspend-me to complete the suspend. Upon returning from ibm,suspend-me, the chosen CPU is to use H_PROD to wake the joined CPUs. Using on_each_cpu() for this, as rtas_ibm_suspend_me() does to implement partition migration, is susceptible to deadlock with other users of on_each_cpu() and with users of stop_machine APIs. The callback passed to on_each_cpu() is not allowed to synchronize with other CPUs in the way it is used here. Complicating the fix is the fact that rtas_ibm_suspend_me() also occupies the function name that should be used to provide a more conventional wrapper for ibm,suspend-me. Rename rtas_ibm_suspend_me() to rtas_ibm_suspend_me_unsafe() to free up the name and indicate that it should not gain users. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201207215200.1785968-4-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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.
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.