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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 11/33] powerpc: improve handling of unrecoverable system reset

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-03-02 15:09:04
Also in: linuxppc-dev, lkml
Subsystem: linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers: Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds

From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 11cb0a25f71818ca7ab4856548ecfd83c169aa4d ]

If an unrecoverable system reset hits in process context, the system
does not have to panic. Similar to machine check, call nmi_exit()
before die().

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130130852.2952424-26-npiggin@gmail.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index 206032c9b545..ecfa460f66d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -513,8 +513,11 @@ out:
 		die("Unrecoverable nested System Reset", regs, SIGABRT);
 #endif
 	/* Must die if the interrupt is not recoverable */
-	if (!(regs->msr & MSR_RI))
+	if (!(regs->msr & MSR_RI)) {
+		/* For the reason explained in die_mce, nmi_exit before die */
+		nmi_exit();
 		die("Unrecoverable System Reset", regs, SIGABRT);
+	}
 
 	if (saved_hsrrs) {
 		mtspr(SPRN_HSRR0, hsrr0);
-- 
2.30.1
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