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<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2023-09-19T10:20:15Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: reset dump area size if fadump memory reserve fails</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T10:20:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sourabh Jain</name>
</author>
<published>2023-07-04T05:07:15Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit d1eb75e0dfed80d2d85b664e28a39f65b290ab55 ]

In case fadump_reserve_mem() fails to reserve memory, the
reserve_dump_area_size variable will retain the reserve area size. This
will lead to /sys/kernel/fadump/mem_reserved node displaying an incorrect
memory reserved by fadump.

To fix this problem, reserve dump area size variable is set to 0 if fadump
failed to reserve memory.

Fixes: 8255da95e545 ("powerpc/fadump: release all the memory above boot memory size")
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar &lt;mahesh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20230704050715.203581-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: fix PT_LOAD segment for boot memory area</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T08:21:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
</author>
<published>2022-04-06T09:38:37Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 15eb77f873255cf9f4d703b63cfbd23c46579654 ]

Boot memory area is setup as separate PT_LOAD segment in the vmcore
as it is moved by f/w, on crash, to a destination address provided by
the kernel. Having separate PT_LOAD segment helps in handling the
different physical address and offset for boot memory area in the
vmcore.

Commit ced1bf52f477 ("powerpc/fadump: merge adjacent memory ranges to
reduce PT_LOAD segements") inadvertly broke this pre-condition for
cases where some of the first kernel memory is available adjacent to
boot memory area. This scenario is rare but possible when memory for
fadump could not be reserved adjacent to boot memory area owing to
memory hole or such. Reading memory from a vmcore exported in such
scenario provides incorrect data.  Fix it by ensuring no other region
is folded into boot memory area.

Fixes: ced1bf52f477 ("powerpc/fadump: merge adjacent memory ranges to reduce PT_LOAD segements")
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220406093839.206608-2-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: Fix inaccurate CPU state info in vmcore generated with panic</title>
<updated>2022-01-27T09:54:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
</author>
<published>2021-12-07T10:37:19Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 06e629c25daa519be620a8c17359ae8fc7a2e903 ]

In panic path, fadump is triggered via a panic notifier function.
Before calling panic notifier functions, smp_send_stop() gets called,
which stops all CPUs except the panic'ing CPU. Commit 8389b37dffdc
("powerpc: stop_this_cpu: remove the cpu from the online map.") and
again commit bab26238bbd4 ("powerpc: Offline CPU in stop_this_cpu()")
started marking CPUs as offline while stopping them. So, if a kernel
has either of the above commits, vmcore captured with fadump via panic
path would not process register data for all CPUs except the panic'ing
CPU. Sample output of crash-utility with such vmcore:

  # crash vmlinux vmcore
  ...
        KERNEL: vmlinux
      DUMPFILE: vmcore  [PARTIAL DUMP]
          CPUS: 1
          DATE: Wed Nov 10 09:56:34 EST 2021
        UPTIME: 00:00:42
  LOAD AVERAGE: 2.27, 0.69, 0.24
         TASKS: 183
      NODENAME: XXXXXXXXX
       RELEASE: 5.15.0+
       VERSION: #974 SMP Wed Nov 10 04:18:19 CST 2021
       MACHINE: ppc64le  (2500 Mhz)
        MEMORY: 8 GB
         PANIC: "Kernel panic - not syncing: sysrq triggered crash"
           PID: 3394
       COMMAND: "bash"
          TASK: c0000000150a5f80  [THREAD_INFO: c0000000150a5f80]
           CPU: 1
         STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC)

  crash&gt; p -x __cpu_online_mask
  __cpu_online_mask = $1 = {
    bits = {0x2, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}
  }
  crash&gt;
  crash&gt;
  crash&gt; p -x __cpu_active_mask
  __cpu_active_mask = $2 = {
    bits = {0xff, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}
  }
  crash&gt;

While this has been the case since fadump was introduced, the issue
was not identified for two probable reasons:

  - In general, the bulk of the vmcores analyzed were from crash
    due to exception.

  - The above did change since commit 8341f2f222d7 ("sysrq: Use
    panic() to force a crash") started using panic() instead of
    deferencing NULL pointer to force a kernel crash. But then
    commit de6e5d38417e ("powerpc: smp_send_stop do not offline
    stopped CPUs") stopped marking CPUs as offline till kernel
    commit bab26238bbd4 ("powerpc: Offline CPU in stop_this_cpu()")
    reverted that change.

To ensure post processing register data of all other CPUs happens
as intended, let panic() function take the crash friendly path (read
crash_smp_send_stop()) with the help of crash_kexec_post_notifiers
option. Also, as register data for all CPUs is captured by f/w, skip
IPI callbacks here for fadump, to avoid any complications in finding
the right backtraces.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211207103719.91117-2-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: Mark fadump_calculate_reserve_size as __init</title>
<updated>2021-05-14T07:50:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
</author>
<published>2021-03-02T19:50:14Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit fbced1546eaaab57a32e56c974ea8acf10c6abd8 ]

If fadump_calculate_reserve_size() is not inlined, there is a modpost
warning:

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.text+0x5196c): Section mismatch in
reference from the function fadump_calculate_reserve_size() to the
function .init.text:parse_crashkernel()
The function fadump_calculate_reserve_size() references
the function __init parse_crashkernel().
This is often because fadump_calculate_reserve_size lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of parse_crashkernel is wrong.

fadump_calculate_reserve_size() calls parse_crashkernel(), which is
marked as __init and fadump_calculate_reserve_size() is called from
within fadump_reserve_mem(), which is also marked as __init.

Mark fadump_calculate_reserve_size() as __init to fix the section
mismatch. Additionally, remove the inline keyword as it is not necessary
to inline this function; the compiler is still free to do so if it feels
it is worthwhile since commit 889b3c1245de ("compiler: remove
CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING entirely").

Fixes: 11550dc0a00b ("powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump memory reservation")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1300
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302195013.2626335-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T19:21:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T19:21:15Z</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A series from Nick adding ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM &amp; selecting
   it for powerpc, as well as a related fix for sparc.

 - Remove support for PowerPC 601.

 - Some fixes for watchpoints &amp; addition of a new ptrace flag for
   detecting ISA v3.1 (Power10) watchpoint features.

 - A fix for kernels using 4K pages and the hash MMU on bare metal
   Power9 systems with &gt; 16TB of RAM, or RAM on the 2nd node.

 - A basic idle driver for shallow stop states on Power10.

 - Tweaks to our sched domains code to better inform the scheduler about
   the hardware topology on Power9/10, where two SMT4 cores can be
   presented by firmware as an SMT8 core.

 - A series doing further reworks &amp; cleanups of our EEH code.

 - Addition of a filter for RTAS (firmware) calls done via sys_rtas(),
   to prevent root from overwriting kernel memory.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
Athira Rajeev, Biwen Li, Cameron Berkenpas, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, Daniel Axtens, David Dai, Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero,
Ira Weiny, Jason Yan, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Konrad
Rzeszutek Wilk, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Liu Shixin, Luca
Ceresoli, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Mc Guire, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Pedro
Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang
Miao, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Cheloha,
Segher Boessenkool, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Kitt,
Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wang Wensheng, Wolfram Sang, Yang
Yingliang, zhengbin.

* tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (228 commits)
  Revert "powerpc/pci: unmap legacy INTx interrupts when a PHB is removed"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix eeh-basic.sh exit codes
  cpufreq: powernv: Fix frame-size-overflow in powernv_cpufreq_reboot_notifier
  powerpc/time: Make get_tb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Make get_tbl() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Remove get_tbu()
  powerpc/time: Avoid using get_tbl() and get_tbu() internally
  powerpc/time: Make mftb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Rename mftbl() to mftb()
  powerpc/32s: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 in head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Rename head_32.S to head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Setup the early hash table at all time.
  powerpc/time: Remove ifdef in get_dec() and set_dec()
  powerpc: Remove get_tb_or_rtc()
  powerpc: Remove __USE_RTC()
  powerpc: Tidy up a bit after removal of PowerPC 601.
  powerpc: Remove support for PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()
  powerpc: Remove CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, drivers: replace for_each_membock() with for_each_mem_range()</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:58:08Z</published>
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There are several occurrences of the following pattern:

	for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
		start = __pfn_to_phys(memblock_region_memory_base_pfn(reg);
		end = __pfn_to_phys(memblock_region_memory_end_pfn(reg));

		/* do something with start and end */
	}

Using for_each_mem_range() iterator is more appropriate in such cases and
allows simpler and cleaner code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/arm/mm/pmsa-v7.c build]
[rppt@linux.ibm.com: mips: fix cavium-octeon build caused by memblock refactoring]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827124549.GD167163@linux.ibm.com

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Emil Renner Berthing &lt;kernel@esmil.dk&gt;
Cc: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200818151634.14343-13-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch, mm: replace for_each_memblock() with for_each_mem_pfn_range()</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:58:03Z</published>
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There are several occurrences of the following pattern:

	for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
		start_pfn = memblock_region_memory_base_pfn(reg);
		end_pfn = memblock_region_memory_end_pfn(reg);

		/* do something with start_pfn and end_pfn */
	}

Rather than iterate over all memblock.memory regions and each time query
for their start and end PFNs, use for_each_mem_pfn_range() iterator to get
simpler and clearer code.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;	[.clang-format]
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Emil Renner Berthing &lt;kernel@esmil.dk&gt;
Cc: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200818151634.14343-12-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: Remove set but not used variable 'elf'</title>
<updated>2020-08-24T15:31:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>zhengbin</name>
</author>
<published>2019-11-19T06:14:30Z</published>
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Fix gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:

arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c: In function fadump_update_elfcore_header:
arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c:790:17: warning: variable elf set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

It is introduced by commit ebaeb5ae2437 ("fadump:
Convert firmware-assisted cpu state dump data into elf notes."),
but never used, so remove it.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: zhengbin &lt;zhengbin13@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1574144074-142032-2-git-send-email-zhengbin13@huawei.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: Fix build error with CONFIG_PRESERVE_FA_DUMP=y</title>
<updated>2020-07-27T07:04:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
</author>
<published>2020-07-27T03:44:36Z</published>
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skiroot_defconfig fails:

arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c:48:17: error: ‘cpus_in_fadump’ defined but not used
   48 | static atomic_t cpus_in_fadump;

Fix it by moving the definition into the #ifdef where it's used.

Fixes: ba608c4fa12c ("powerpc/fadump: fix race between pstore write and fadump crash trigger")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200727070341.595634-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/fadump: fix race between pstore write and fadump crash trigger</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T03:12:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sourabh Jain</name>
</author>
<published>2020-07-13T05:24:35Z</published>
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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   --&gt;|---&gt;|----&gt;| -----------&gt;|
 system reset    |    |     |             |
 path            |    |     |             |
                 |    |     |             |
 Try to       --&gt;|---&gt;|----&gt;|------------&gt;|
 acquire the     |    |     |             |
 pstore lock     |    |     |             |
                 |    |     |             |
                 |    |     |             |
 Got the      --&gt;| +-&gt;|     |             |&lt;-+
 pstore lock     | |  |     |             |  |--&gt;  Didn't get the
                 | --------------------------+     lock and moving
                 |    |     |             |        ahead on fadump
                 |    |     |             |        crash path
                 |    |     |             |
  Begins the  --&gt;|    |     |             |
  process to     |    |     |             |&lt;-- Got the chance to
  update the     |    |     |             |    trigger the crash
  pstore         | -&gt; |     |    ... &lt;-   |
                 | |  |     |         |   |
                 | |  |     |         |   |&lt;-- Triggers the
                 | |  |     |         |   |    crash
                 | |  |     |         |   |      ^
                 | |  |     |         |   |      |
  Writing to  --&gt;| |  |     |         |   |      |
  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 &lt;sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713052435.183750-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
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