There's no reason why IPI_CPU_STOP and IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP can't be
handled as NMI. They are very simple and everything in them is
NMI-safe. Mark them as things to use NMI for if NMI is available.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Misono Tomohiro <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <[email protected]>
---
This patch is tested by Mark Rutland's LKDTM test [1].

[1] http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]

(no changes since v10)

Changes in v10:
- ("IPI_CPU_STOP and IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP should try for NMI") new for v10.

 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 28c904ca499a..800c59cf9b64 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -946,6 +946,8 @@ static bool ipi_should_be_nmi(enum ipi_msg_type ipi)
                return false;
 
        switch (ipi) {
+       case IPI_CPU_STOP:
+       case IPI_CPU_CRASH_STOP:
        case IPI_CPU_BACKTRACE:
                return true;
        default:
-- 
2.42.0.283.g2d96d420d3-goog



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