Re: [PATCH v2] Fix regression. Make hot unlplug of CPU0 work again.

[Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>]

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On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 17:30 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> Early in the 2.6.23 cycle we broke the ability to offline cpu0
> (7ccb4a662462616f6be5053e26b79580e02f1529).  This patch fixes that by
> ensuring that the (xics)  default irq server, will not be 0 when taking
> cpu0 offline.
> 
> Also catches a use of irq, when virq should be used (I think that's the
> last one).
> 
> This patch also include the fix from Milton which makes JS21 work
> aswell. In the commit message for that patch Milton writes:
> 	xics_set_affinity no longer looks at the cpu_mask arg, instead
> 	get_irq_server reads it from the irq descriptor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
> 
> ---
> Milton also says in his patch:
> > A more complete fix might be to pass the cpu_mask struct to get_irq_server,
> > but kernel/irq/manage.c currently sets the descriptor first.
> 
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c |   11 ++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c
> index f0b5ff1..217ae5d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c
> @@ -837,6 +837,15 @@ void xics_migrate_irqs_away(void)
>  	/* Allow IPIs again... */
>  	xics_set_cpu_priority(cpu, DEFAULT_PRIORITY);
>  
> +	/* It would be bad to migrate any IRQs to the CPU we're taking down */
> +	if (default_server == cpu) {
> +		unsigned int new_server = first_cpu(cpu_online_map);
> +
> +		default_server = get_hard_smp_processor_id(new_server);
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: default server was %d, reset to %d\n",
> +		       __func__, cpu, default_server);

WARNING? It's not like the user can do anything about it.

cheers

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