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From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
To: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>,
	dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:56:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216180586-8313-1-git-send-email-maxk@qualcomm.com> (raw)

This goes on top of the cpu_active_map (take 2) patch.

Currently we depend on the stop_machine to provide nescessesary
synchronization for the cpu_active_map updates.
As Dmitry Adamushko pointed this is fragile and is not much clearer
than the previous scheme. In other words we do not want to depend on
the internal stop machine operation here.
So make the synchronization rules clear by doing synchronize_sched()
after clearing out cpu active bit.

Tested on quad-Core2 with:

   while true; do
      for i in 1 2 3; do
        echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/online
      done
      for i in 1 2 3; do
        echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu$i/online
      done
   done
and
   stress -c 200

No lockdep, preempt or other complaints.

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
---
 kernel/cpu.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 71c5c9d..541f78e 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -301,6 +301,14 @@ int __ref cpu_down(unsigned int cpu)
 
 	cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_active_map);
 
+	/* Make sure the all cpus did the reschedule and are not
+	 * using stale version of the cpu_active_map.
+	 * This is not strictly necessary becuase stop_machine() 
+	 * that we run down the line already provides the required 
+	 * synchronization. But it's really a side effect and we do not 
+	 * want to depend on the innards of the stop_machine here. */
+	synchronize_sched();
+
 	err = _cpu_down(cpu, 0);
 
 	if (cpu_online(cpu))
-- 
1.5.5.1


             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-16  3:56 Max Krasnyansky [this message]
2008-07-18 11:26 ` [PATCH] cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 12:03   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22  4:07     ` Max Krasnyansky

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