powerpc/xmon: Fix invocation inside lock region
Currently xmon needs to get devtree_lock (through rtas_token()) during its invocation (at crash time). If there is a crash while devtree_lock is being held, then xmon tries to get the lock but spins forever and never get into the interactive debugger, as in the following case: int *ptr = NULL; raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&devtree_lock, flags); *ptr = 0xdeadbeef; This patch avoids calling rtas_token(), thus trying to get the same lock, at crash time. This new mechanism proposes getting the token at initialization time (xmon_init()) and just consuming it at crash time. This would allow xmon to be possible invoked independent of devtree_lock being held or not. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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