Hi Andrew,

This patches has not made into Linus's tree yet. Are you planning to push
it soon?

Thanks
Vivek

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:50:53AM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Subject: + kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu.patch added to -mm tree
> To: 
> [email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:50:53 -0800
> 
> 
> The patch titled
>      Subject: kexec: migrate to reboot cpu
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu.patch
> 
> This patch should soon appear at
>     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu.patch
> and later at
>     http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu.patch
> 
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
> Subject: kexec: migrate to reboot cpu
> 
> Commit 1b3a5d02ee0 ("reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic
> kernel") moved reboot= handling to generic code.  In the process it also
> removed the code in native_machine_shutdown() which are moving reboot
> process to reboot_cpu/cpu0.
> 
> I guess that thought must have been that all reboot paths are calling
> migrate_to_reboot_cpu(), so we don't need this special handling.  But
> kexec reboot path (kernel_kexec()) is not calling migrate_to_reboot_cpu()
> so above change broke kexec.  Now reboot can happen on non-boot cpu and
> when INIT is sent in second kerneo to bring up BP, it brings down the
> machine.
> 
> So start calling migrate_to_reboot_cpu() in kexec reboot path to avoid
> this problem.
> 
> Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Dave Young <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
> Bisected-by: WANG Chao <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: WANG Chao <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/reboot.h |    1 +
>  kernel/kexec.c         |    1 +
>  kernel/reboot.c        |    2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -puN include/linux/reboot.h~kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu 
> include/linux/reboot.h
> --- a/include/linux/reboot.h~kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu
> +++ a/include/linux/reboot.h
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ extern int unregister_reboot_notifier(st
>   * Architecture-specific implementations of sys_reboot commands.
>   */
>  
> +extern void migrate_to_reboot_cpu(void);
>  extern void machine_restart(char *cmd);
>  extern void machine_halt(void);
>  extern void machine_power_off(void);
> diff -puN kernel/kexec.c~kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu kernel/kexec.c
> --- a/kernel/kexec.c~kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu
> +++ a/kernel/kexec.c
> @@ -1676,6 +1676,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
>  #endif
>       {
>               kernel_restart_prepare(NULL);
> +             migrate_to_reboot_cpu();
>               printk(KERN_EMERG "Starting new kernel\n");
>               machine_shutdown();
>       }
> diff -puN kernel/reboot.c~kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu kernel/reboot.c
> --- a/kernel/reboot.c~kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu
> +++ a/kernel/reboot.c
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ int unregister_reboot_notifier(struct no
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_reboot_notifier);
>  
> -static void migrate_to_reboot_cpu(void)
> +void migrate_to_reboot_cpu(void)
>  {
>       /* The boot cpu is always logical cpu 0 */
>       int cpu = reboot_cpu;
> _
> 
> Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
> 
> kexec-migrate-to-reboot-cpu.patch
> linux-next.patch
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