linux/arch
Ravi K. Nittala df17f56d8a 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 <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Nittala <ravi.nittala@in.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Divya Vikas <divya.vikas@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-11-25 14:11:29 +11:00
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alpha Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm 2011-11-20 14:34:58 -08:00
avr32 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2011-11-07 09:11:16 -08:00
blackfin blackfin: Fixup export.h includes 2011-11-14 17:15:23 +08:00
cris net: Fix references to deleted NET_ETHERNET Kconfig setting. 2011-11-09 19:26:53 -05:00
frv kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'gpio/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-10-29 07:27:45 -07:00
hexagon Hexagon: Add basic stacktrace functionality for Hexagon architecture. 2011-11-01 07:34:21 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'upstream/xen-settime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen 2011-11-06 20:15:05 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2011-11-06 18:54:53 -08:00
m68k m68k/mac: Remove mac_irq_{en,dis}able() wrappers 2011-11-08 22:35:52 +01:00
microblaze microblaze: bury asm/namei.h 2011-11-21 16:48:28 -05:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2011-11-15 22:44:45 -02:00
mn10300 kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
openrisc Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2011-11-06 18:54:53 -08:00
parisc parisc: Add export.h to files needing EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:31:00 -04:00
powerpc powerpc/pseries: Cancel RTAS event scan before firmware flash 2011-11-25 14:11:29 +11:00
s390 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2011-11-20 14:57:43 -08:00
score score: drop unused Kconfig symbols 2011-10-31 23:39:51 +01:00
sh Merge branches 'sh/pm-runtime' and 'common/clkfwk' into sh-fixes-for-linus 2011-11-11 16:16:25 +09:00
sparc sparc64: Patch sun4v code sequences properly on module load. 2011-11-17 22:44:58 -08:00
tile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://github.com/cmetcalf-tilera/linux-tile 2011-11-04 12:33:34 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://github.com/richardweinberger/linux 2011-11-02 09:45:39 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS) 2011-11-16 10:50:09 +08:00
x86 fix braino in um patchset (mea culpa) 2011-11-21 12:10:21 -08:00
xtensa Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-26 17:15:03 +02:00
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