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Patch "sparc64: Migrate hvcons irq to panicked cpu" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

sparc64: Migrate hvcons irq to panicked cpu

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
sparc64-migrate-hvcons-irq-to-panicked-cpu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Thu Oct 19 15:04:02 CEST 2017

From: Vijay Kumar <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:34:38 -0800
Subject: sparc64: Migrate hvcons irq to panicked cpu

From: Vijay Kumar <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 7dd4fcf5b70694dc961eb6b954673e4fc9730dbd ]

On panic, all other CPUs are stopped except the one which had hit panic. To keep console alive, we need to migrate hvcons irq to panicked CPU.

---
 arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h |    5 ++++-
 arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c     |    6 +++++-
 drivers/tty/serial/sunhv.c     |    6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h +4 -1
@@ -59,8 +59,11 @@ extern atomic_t dcpage_flushes;
 extern atomic_t dcpage_flushes_xcall;
 
 extern int sysctl_tsb_ratio;
-#endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_SUNHV
+void sunhv_migrate_hvcons_irq(int cpu);
+#endif
+#endif
 void sun_do_break(void);
 extern int stop_a_enabled;
 extern int scons_pwroff;
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c +5 -1
@@ -1465,8 +1465,12 @@ void smp_send_stop(void)
 	int cpu;
 
 	if (tlb_type == hypervisor) {
+		int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
+#ifdef CONFIG_SERIAL_SUNHV
+		sunhv_migrate_hvcons_irq(this_cpu);
+#endif
 		for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
-			if (cpu == smp_processor_id())
+			if (cpu == this_cpu)
 				continue;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SUN_LDOMS
 			if (ldom_domaining_enabled) {
drivers/tty/serial/sunhv.c +6 -0
@@ -398,6 +398,12 @@ static struct uart_driver sunhv_reg = {
 
 static struct uart_port *sunhv_port;
 
+void sunhv_migrate_hvcons_irq(int cpu)
+{
+	/* Migrate hvcons irq to param cpu */
+	irq_force_affinity(sunhv_port->irq, cpumask_of(cpu));
+}
+
 /* Copy 's' into the con_write_page, decoding "\n" into
  * "\r\n" along the way.  We have to return two lengths
  * because the caller needs to know how much to advance

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/sparc64-migrate-hvcons-irq-to-panicked-cpu.patch