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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h10
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c8
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
index 19c36cba37c4..a46f5f45570c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ extern int overlaps_crashkernel(unsigned long start, unsigned long size);
extern void reserve_crashkernel(void);
extern void machine_kexec_mask_interrupts(void);
+static inline bool kdump_in_progress(void)
+{
+ return crashing_cpu >= 0;
+}
+
#else /* !CONFIG_KEXEC */
static inline void crash_kexec_secondary(struct pt_regs *regs) { }
@@ -106,6 +111,11 @@ static inline int crash_shutdown_unregister(crash_shutdown_t handler)
return 0;
}
+static inline bool kdump_in_progress(void)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
#endif /* ! __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
index 879b3aacac32..f96d1ec24189 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ void default_machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
* using debugger IPI.
*/
- if (crashing_cpu == -1)
+ if (!kdump_in_progress())
kexec_prepare_cpus();
pr_debug("kexec: Starting switchover sequence.\n");
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index 469751d92004..b5682fd6c984 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
#include <asm/trace.h>
#include <asm/firmware.h>
#include <asm/plpar_wrappers.h>
+#include <asm/kexec.h>
#include <asm/fadump.h>
#include "pseries.h"
@@ -267,8 +268,13 @@ static void pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear(void)
* out to the user, but at least this will stop us from
* continuing on further and creating an even more
* difficult to debug situation.
+ *
+ * There is a known problem when kdump'ing, if cpus are offline
+ * the above call will fail. Rather than panicking again, keep
+ * going and hope the kdump kernel is also little endian, which
+ * it usually is.
*/
- if (rc)
+ if (rc && !kdump_in_progress())
panic("Could not enable big endian exceptions");
}
#endif