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From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To:     Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix crash handler reset of Hyper-V synic
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Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:04:16 +0100
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Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> writes:

> The crash handler calls hv_synic_cleanup() to shutdown the
> Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller.  But if the CPU
> that calls hv_synic_cleanup() has a VMbus channel interrupt
> assigned to it (which is likely the case in smaller VM sizes),
> hv_synic_cleanup() returns an error and the synthetic
> interrupt controller isn't shutdown.  While the lack of
> being shutdown hasn't caused a known problem, it still
> should be fixed for highest reliability.
>
> So directly call hv_synic_disable_regs() instead of
> hv_synic_cleanup(), which ensures that the synic is always
> shutdown.

Generally, when performing kdump doing as little work as possible is
always preferred and hv_synic_cleanup() does too much: taking mutex,
walking through channel list,...=20

Also, hv_synic_cleanup() was calling hv_stimer_cleanup() and we have a
second redundant invocation in hv_crash_handler().

>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> index 664a415..665920d 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> @@ -2305,7 +2305,7 @@ static void hv_crash_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  =09vmbus_connection.conn_state =3D DISCONNECTED;
>  =09cpu =3D smp_processor_id();
>  =09hv_stimer_cleanup(cpu);
> -=09hv_synic_cleanup(cpu);
> +=09hv_synic_disable_regs(cpu);
>  =09hyperv_cleanup();
>  };

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>

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Vitaly