Re: Panic when cpu hot-remove

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From	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
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Subject	Re: Panic when cpu hot-remove
Date	Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:50:02 +0200
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On 2015/6/17 22:36, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 13:52 +0200, Joerg Roedeljoro wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:42:49AM +0000, 范冬冬 wrote:
>>> Hi maintainer,
>>>
>>> We found a problem that a panic happen when cpu was hot-removed. We also trace the problem according to the calltrace information.
>>> An endless loop happen because value head is not equal to value tail forever in the function qi_check_fault( ).
>>> The location code is as follows:
>>>
>>>
>>> do {
>>>         if (qi->desc_status[head] == QI_IN_USE)
>>>         qi->desc_status[head] = QI_ABORT;
>>>         head = (head - 2 + QI_LENGTH) % QI_LENGTH;
>>>     } while (head != tail);
>>
>> Hmm, this code interates only over every second QI descriptor, and tail
>> probably points to a descriptor that is not iterated over.
>>
>> Jiang, can you please have a look?
> 
> I think that part is normal, the way we use the queue is to always
> submit a work operation followed by a wait operation so that we can
> determine the work operation is complete.  That's done via
> qi_submit_sync().  We have had spurious reports of the queue getting
> impossibly out of sync though.  I saw one that was somehow linked to the
> I/O AT DMA engine.  Roland Dreier saw something similar[1].  I'm not
> sure if they're related to this, but maybe worth comparing.  Thanks,
Thanks, Alex and Joerg!

Hi Dongdong,
	Could you please help to give some instructions about how to
reproduce this issue? I will try to reproduce it if possible.
Thanks!
Gerry

> 
> Alex
> 
> [1] http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2015-January/011502.html
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Re: Panic when cpu hot-remove Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> - 2015-06-18 07:50 +0200
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