On 12/12/13 06:09, David Vrabel wrote:

On 12/12/13 10:01, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 19:56 -0500, Don Slutz wrote:

>> From: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
>>
>> This is a quick and dirty linux kernel module to offline some cpus
>> as far as Xen knows.
>>
>> This can be used to re-create the bug in hvm_save_one about
>> returning the wrong data.

> 
> Can this not be done via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online etc?
> Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt seems to suggest it can.

Yes it can.

echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/online

And onlined again with 1.

David

I had forgotten about that when I was testing. At least on 2.6.18-128.el5, cpu 0 does not work:

[root@P-8-0 ~]# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online
-bash: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online: Permission denied
[root@P-8-0 ~]# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel) context=root:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh
[root@P-8-0 ~]# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
[root@P-8-0 ~]# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
[root@P-8-0 ~]# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/online
[root@P-8-0 ~]# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online

And making cpu 0 offline was something I wanted to test.
-Don Slutz