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-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec.c11
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec_core.c20
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec_file.c4
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec_internal.h15
4 files changed, 30 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index b5e40f069768..cb8e6e6f983c 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -93,13 +93,10 @@ static int do_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
/*
* Because we write directly to the reserved memory region when loading
- * crash kernels we need a mutex here to prevent multiple crash kernels
- * from attempting to load simultaneously, and to prevent a crash kernel
- * from loading over the top of a in use crash kernel.
- *
- * KISS: always take the mutex.
+ * crash kernels we need a serialization here to prevent multiple crash
+ * kernels from attempting to load simultaneously.
*/
- if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
+ if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;
if (flags & KEXEC_ON_CRASH) {
@@ -165,7 +162,7 @@ out:
kimage_free(image);
out_unlock:
- mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
+ kexec_unlock();
return ret;
}
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 8fa4eeb95b30..5ca4d40c9ec1 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
#include <crypto/hash.h>
#include "kexec_internal.h"
-DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex);
+atomic_t __kexec_lock = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
/* Per cpu memory for storing cpu states in case of system crash. */
note_buf_t __percpu *crash_notes;
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ late_initcall(kexec_core_sysctl_init);
*/
void __noclone __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- /* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load
+ /* Take the kexec_lock here to prevent sys_kexec_load
* running on one cpu from replacing the crash kernel
* we are using after a panic on a different cpu.
*
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ void __noclone __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
* of memory the xchg(&kexec_crash_image) would be
* sufficient. But since I reuse the memory...
*/
- if (mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex)) {
+ if (kexec_trylock()) {
if (kexec_crash_image) {
struct pt_regs fixed_regs;
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ void __noclone __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
machine_crash_shutdown(&fixed_regs);
machine_kexec(kexec_crash_image);
}
- mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
+ kexec_unlock();
}
}
STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(__crash_kexec);
@@ -1008,13 +1008,13 @@ ssize_t crash_get_memory_size(void)
{
ssize_t size = 0;
- if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
+ if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;
if (crashk_res.end != crashk_res.start)
size = resource_size(&crashk_res);
- mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
+ kexec_unlock();
return size;
}
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size)
unsigned long old_size;
struct resource *ram_res;
- if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
+ if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;
if (kexec_crash_image) {
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size)
insert_resource(&iomem_resource, ram_res);
unlock:
- mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
+ kexec_unlock();
return ret;
}
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
{
int error = 0;
- if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
+ if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;
if (!kexec_image) {
error = -EINVAL;
@@ -1212,6 +1212,6 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
#endif
Unlock:
- mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
+ kexec_unlock();
return error;
}
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 1d546dc97c50..45637511e0de 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd,
image = NULL;
- if (!mutex_trylock(&kexec_mutex))
+ if (!kexec_trylock())
return -EBUSY;
dest_image = &kexec_image;
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ out:
if ((flags & KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH) && kexec_crash_image)
arch_kexec_protect_crashkres();
- mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
+ kexec_unlock();
kimage_free(image);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_internal.h b/kernel/kexec_internal.h
index 48aaf2ac0d0d..74da1409cd14 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_internal.h
+++ b/kernel/kexec_internal.h
@@ -13,7 +13,20 @@ void kimage_terminate(struct kimage *image);
int kimage_is_destination_range(struct kimage *image,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
-extern struct mutex kexec_mutex;
+/*
+ * Whatever is used to serialize accesses to the kexec_crash_image needs to be
+ * NMI safe, as __crash_kexec() can happen during nmi_panic(), so here we use a
+ * "simple" atomic variable that is acquired with a cmpxchg().
+ */
+extern atomic_t __kexec_lock;
+static inline bool kexec_trylock(void)
+{
+ return atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&__kexec_lock, 0, 1) == 0;
+}
+static inline void kexec_unlock(void)
+{
+ atomic_set_release(&__kexec_lock, 0);
+}
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE
#include <linux/purgatory.h>