Pnina Feder 2e171ab29f panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU ...

Some platforms require panic handling to execute on a specific CPU for
crash dump to work reliably.  This can be due to firmware limitations,
interrupt routing constraints, or platform-specific requirements where
only a single CPU is able to safely enter the crash kernel.

Add the panic_force_cpu= kernel command-line parameter to redirect panic
execution to a designated CPU.  When the parameter is provided, the CPU
that initially triggers panic forwards the panic context to the target CPU
via IPI, which then proceeds with the normal panic and kexec flow.

The IPI delivery is implemented as a weak function
(panic_smp_redirect_cpu) so architectures with NMI support can override it
for more reliable delivery.

If the specified CPU is invalid, offline, or a panic is already in
progress on another CPU, the redirection is skipped and panic continues on
the current CPU.

[pnina.feder@mobileye.com: fix unused variable warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260126122618.2967950-1-pnina.feder@mobileye.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260122102457.1154599-1-pnina.feder@mobileye.com
Signed-off-by: Pnina Feder <pnina.feder@mobileye.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

2026-02-03 08:21:26 -08:00

31 KiB

Raw Permalink Blame History

View Raw