Re: ia64 cpu hotplug patch

[Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:45:56PM -0700, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
>    On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 04:12, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>    >  > Gack, Rusty, I wish you had less SMTP latency.  I'm not sure what
>    >  >  this is about.  If it pertains to some patch which I'm carrying,
>    someone
>    > > tell me what one ;)
>    >
>    >  One  of the ia64 hotplug patches that got merged. It seems they got
>    itchy
>    > fingers and changed a few more things than they should have.
> 
>    Precisely.  This applies against Linus' kernel:
> 
>    Name: Fix overzealous use of online cpu iterators
>    Status: Trivial
> 
>    The  IA64  hotplug CPU merge seems to have included some core changes:
>    in
>    particular the recalc_bh_state() needs to sum for all (including
>    offline) cpus, since we don't empty the counters on CPU down.  I don't
>    know  that anyone cares about the accuracy of the /proc/stat when CPUs
>    go
>    down, but certainly the totals printed (the first loop) should include
>    offline cpus.

Sorry... my mistake!

proc_misc.c was changed, since top() uses this to read and
display stats. With cpuhotplug cpu_possible() represents
the entire set of NR_CPUS, all these stats with 0 values and
top gets all dorky about it.

Maybe the right thing would be to fix the utility instead ?

Other issue i noticied was that when we have a 4 cpu system, and you 
remove an intermediate cpu say cpu2, top utility is dorky again. And prints
"invalid data" in the middle of the output.

Without the fix to proc_misc, if NR_CPUS is set to 128, top lists all
128 cpu stats even if only 4 are present and online, since 
for_each_cpu reprensents all of it....

> 
>    --- b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c       Fri May 14 23:11:58 2004
>    +++ a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c       Tue Mar 23 02:05:27 2004
>    @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@
>            if (wall_to_monotonic.tv_nsec)
>                    --jif;
> 
>    -       for_each_online_cpu(i) {
>    +       for_each_cpu(i) {
>                    int j;
> 
>                    user += kstat_cpu(i).cpustat.user;
>    @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
>                    (unsigned long long)jiffies_64_to_clock_t(iowait),
>                    (unsigned long long)jiffies_64_to_clock_t(irq),
>                    (unsigned long long)jiffies_64_to_clock_t(softirq));
>    -       for_each_online_cpu(i) {
>    +       for_each_cpu(i) {
> 
>                      /*  Copy  values  here  to  work  around gcc-2.95.3,
>    gcc-2.96 */
>                    user = kstat_cpu(i).cpustat.user;
> 
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