Re: [RESEND][PATCH v3] watchdog: Fix disable/enable regression

["Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>]

Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:
> Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> What about the opposite cases?  
>> nmi_watchdog=1
>> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
>
> I don't see why not. But verifying it would be nice.  I thought that it
> would be a simple thing to test using qemu-kvm, but it seems that the
> CPU hotplugging support there isn't quite ready. The guest just dies
> with "Assertion `bus->allow_hotplug' failed."
>
> I'll go digging for alternatives, but if anyone else could verify this
> then I'd appreciate it.

I just realized that you might not really want/need hotplugging, but
just booting with some cores initially offline?

That's easier to test at least:

qmitest:~# cat /proc/cmdline 
initrd=/initrd.img.test root=/dev/sda1 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8 maxcpus=1 BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz.test 
qmitest:~#  grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/o*line
/sys/devices/system/cpu/offline:1-3
/sys/devices/system/cpu/online:0
qmitest:~# grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/online 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online:0
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online:0
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online:0
qmitest:~# grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/o*line
/sys/devices/system/cpu/offline:1-3
/sys/devices/system/cpu/online:0
qmitest:~# grep . /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog 
1


qmitest:~#  echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
qmitest:~#  echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
qmitest:~# grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/online 
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online:1
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online:1
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online:0


No problem observed.  As expected.



Bjørn