Re: [RFC PATCH 09/10] POWERPC: smp: remove call to ipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock()

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:51:59AM +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:32:19AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 03:16:04PM +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> > > From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
> > > 
> > > 1) call_function.lock used in smp_call_function_many() is just to protect
> > >    call_function.queue and &data->refs, cpu_online_mask is outside of the
> > >    lock. And it's not necessary to protect cpu_online_mask,
> > >    because data->cpumask is pre-calculate and even if a cpu is brougt up
> > >    when calling arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(), it's harmless because
> > >    validation test in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() will take care
> > >    of it.
> > > 
> > > 2) For cpu down issue, stop_machine() will guarantee that no concurrent
> > >    smp_call_fuction() is processing.
> > 
> > However, there is an effort to get rid of stop_machine() from the
> > CPU-down path...  So something else will be needed.
> 
> Yeah. So Thomas changed the commit log like below:
> [
>     ipi_call_lock/unlock() lock resp. unlock call_function.lock. This lock
>     protects only the call_function data structure itself, but it's
>     completely unrelated to cpu_online_mask. The mask to which the IPIs
>     are sent is calculated before call_function.lock is taken in
>     smp_call_function_many(), so the locking around set_cpu_online() is
>     pointless and can be removed.
>     
>     [ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
> ]
> 
> in tip/smp/hotplug.

Got it, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> Thanks,
> Yong
> 
> > 
> > 							Thanx, Paul
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> > > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > > Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> > > ---
> > >  arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c |    2 --
> > >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> > > index e4cb343..e1417c4 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> > > @@ -571,7 +571,6 @@ void __devinit start_secondary(void *unused)
> > >  	if (system_state == SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> > >  		vdso_data->processorCount++;
> > >  #endif
> > > -	ipi_call_lock();
> > >  	notify_cpu_starting(cpu);
> > >  	set_cpu_online(cpu, true);
> > >  	/* Update sibling maps */
> > > @@ -601,7 +600,6 @@ void __devinit start_secondary(void *unused)
> > >  		of_node_put(np);
> > >  	}
> > >  	of_node_put(l2_cache);
> > > -	ipi_call_unlock();
> > > 
> > >  	local_irq_enable();
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 1.7.5.4
> > > 
> > 
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