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Baoquan He
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Eric reported that handling corresponding crash hotplug event can be
failed easily when many memory hotplug event are notified in a short
period. They failed because failing to take __kexec_lock.
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[ 78.724423] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
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[ 80.056643] PEFILE: Unsigned PE binary
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The memory hotplug events are notified very quickly and very many, while
the handling of crash hotplug is much slower relatively. So the atomic
variable __kexec_lock and kexec_trylock() can't guarantee the
serialization of crash hotplug handling.
Here, add a new mutex lock __crash_hotplug_lock to serialize crash hotplug
handling specifically. This doesn't impact the usage of __kexec_lock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230926120905.392903-1-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 2472627561 ("crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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