Hello Baoquan,

On 01/08/24 13:13, Baoquan He wrote:
On 07/31/24 at 08:57pm, Sourabh Jain wrote:
The following errors are observed when kexec is done with SMT=off on
powerpc.

[  358.458385] Removing IBM Power 842 compression device
[  374.795734] kexec_core: Starting new kernel
[  374.795748] kexec: Waking offline cpu 1.
[  374.875695] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
[  374.935833] kexec: Waking offline cpu 2.
[  375.015664] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
snip..
[  375.515823] kexec: Waking offline cpu 6.
[  375.635667] crash hp: kexec_trylock() failed, elfcorehdr may be inaccurate
[  375.695836] kexec: Waking offline cpu 7.

During kexec, the offline CPUs are brought online, which triggers the
Is this a generic action or specific on ppc about the offline CPUs being
brought line during kexec?

I think it is powerpc specific.
Patch that introduced this on powerpc: e8e5c2155b003 ("powerpc/kexec: Fix orphaned offline CPUs across kexec")

- Sourabh Jain

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