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At the time this was submitted by Leonardo, I confirmed -- or thought I had confirmed -- with PowerVM partition firmware development that the following RTAS functions: - ibm,get-xive - ibm,int-off - ibm,int-on - ibm,set-xive were safe to call on multiple CPUs simultaneously, not only with respect to themselves as indicated by PAPR, but with arbitrary other RTAS calls: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/875zcy2v8o.fsf@linux.ibm.com/ Recent discussion with firmware development makes it clear that this is not true, and that the code in commitb664db8e3f("powerpc/rtas: Implement reentrant rtas call") is unsafe, likely explaining several strange bugs we've seen in internal testing involving DLPAR and LPM. These scenarios use ibm,configure-connector, whose internal state can be corrupted by the concurrent use of the "reentrant" functions, leading to symptoms like endless busy statuses from RTAS. Fixes:b664db8e3f("powerpc/rtas: Implement reentrant rtas call") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.8+ Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <laurent.dufour@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220907220111.223267-1-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.