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From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	"rusty@rustcorp.com.au" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:04:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130415160408.GA3658@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130413163022.GA7500@redhat.com>

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 06:30:22PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 04/12, Robin Holt wrote:
> >
> > +void migrate_to_boot_cpu(void)
> > +{
> > +	/* The boot cpu is always logical cpu 0 */
> > +	int reboot_cpu_id = 0;
> > +
> > +	/* Make certain the cpu I'm about to reboot on is online */
> > +	if (!cpu_online(reboot_cpu_id))
> > +		reboot_cpu_id = smp_processor_id();
> > +
> > +	/* Make certain I only run on the appropriate processor */
> > +	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(reboot_cpu_id));
> 
> This is only theoretical, but perhaps it makes sense to set
> PF_THREAD_BOUND before set_cpus_allowed_ptr() ? To prevent the
> race with another thread doing sched_setaffinity().

I don't quite understand this comment.  We are migrating our own thread.
How does setting PF_THREAD_BOUND have any effect?

Robin

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-03 19:37 [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu Robin Holt
2013-04-08 15:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-08 16:11   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-08 16:59     ` Robin Holt
2013-04-10 11:16       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 14:01         ` Robin Holt
2013-04-10 15:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-04-10 15:29           ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-10 16:59             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 17:14               ` Robin Holt
2013-04-10 17:22                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 17:55                   ` Robin Holt
2013-04-10 19:00                     ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11  8:57                       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-11 11:34                         ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11 12:00                           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-11 12:03                             ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11 12:08                               ` Robin Holt
2013-04-11 12:14                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-10 17:58               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-10 23:02               ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-10 22:29             ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-11  5:31           ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-11 12:45             ` Bulk CPU Hotplug (Was Re: [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.) Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-11 13:48               ` Robin Holt
2013-04-12  5:37                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-12  6:09                   ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-12  9:31                     ` Robin Holt
2013-04-12 10:01                       ` Robin Holt
2013-04-13 16:30                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-15 16:04                         ` Robin Holt [this message]
2013-04-15 16:09                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-04-15 16:10                           ` Robin Holt
2013-04-13 17:01                       ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-15 10:16                       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-15 12:02                         ` Robin Holt
2013-04-15 15:59                           ` Robin Holt
2013-04-16  9:40                             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-11 14:23               ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-11 14:45                 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-11 20:08                   ` Russ Anderson
2013-04-11 20:17                     ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-04-11 21:08                     ` Robin Holt
2013-04-08 16:54   ` [PATCH] Do not force shutdown/reboot to boot cpu Robin Holt
2013-04-08 17:07   ` Russ Anderson

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