From df17f56d8a1a3a533b6b3e3a49a624626a49b197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Ravi K. Nittala" Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:49:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Cancel RTAS event scan before firmware flash The RTAS firmware flash update is conducted using an RTAS call that is serialized by lock_rtas() which uses spin_lock. While the flash is in progress, rtasd performs scan for any RTAS events that are generated by the system. rtasd keeps scanning for the RTAS events generated on the machine. This is performed via workqueue mechanism. The rtas_event_scan() also uses an RTAS call to scan the events, eventually trying to acquire the spin_lock before issuing the request. The flash update takes a while to complete and during this time, any other RTAS call has to wait. In this case, rtas_event_scan() waits for a long time on the spin_lock resulting in a soft lockup. Fix: Just before the flash update is performed, the queued rtas_event_scan() work item is cancelled from the work queue so that there is no other RTAS call issued while the flash is in progress. After the flash completes, the system reboots and the rtas_event_scan() is rescheduled. Signed-off-by: Suzuki Poulose Signed-off-by: Ravi Nittala Reported-by: Divya Vikas Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h | 6 ++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c | 6 ++++++ arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h index 41f69ae79d4e..1646b76bd3d2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas.h @@ -245,6 +245,12 @@ extern int early_init_dt_scan_rtas(unsigned long node, extern void pSeries_log_error(char *buf, unsigned int err_type, int fatal); +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_DAEMON +extern void rtas_cancel_event_scan(void); +#else +static inline void rtas_cancel_event_scan(void) { } +#endif + /* Error types logged. */ #define ERR_FLAG_ALREADY_LOGGED 0x0 #define ERR_FLAG_BOOT 0x1 /* log was pulled from NVRAM on boot */ diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c index e037c7494fd8..4174b4b23246 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c @@ -567,6 +567,12 @@ static void rtas_flash_firmware(int reboot_type) return; } + /* + * Just before starting the firmware flash, cancel the event scan work + * to avoid any soft lockup issues. + */ + rtas_cancel_event_scan(); + /* * NOTE: the "first" block must be under 4GB, so we create * an entry with no data blocks in the reserved buffer in diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c index 481ef064c8f1..1045ff49cc6d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c @@ -472,6 +472,13 @@ static void start_event_scan(void) &event_scan_work, event_scan_delay); } +/* Cancel the rtas event scan work */ +void rtas_cancel_event_scan(void) +{ + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&event_scan_work); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtas_cancel_event_scan); + static int __init rtas_init(void) { struct proc_dir_entry *entry;