[PATCH -v7 02/11] Migrate shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

Robin Holt
2013-05-01T17:07:33Z

We recently noticed that reboot of a 1024 cpu machine takes approx 16
minutes of just stopping the cpus. The slowdown was tracked to commit
f96972f.

The current implementation does all the work of hot removing the cpus
before halting the system. We are switching to just migrating to the
boot cpu and then continuing with shutdown/reboot.

This also has the effect of not breaking x86's command line parameter for
specifying the reboot cpu. Note, this code was shamelessly copied from
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c with bits removed pertaining to the reboot_cpu
command line parameter.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Arm Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

---

Changes since -v6:
- Add #define for PF_THREAD_BOUND as compatibility to make stable easier.
- Fixup s/reboot_cpu_id/reboot_cpu/
---
kernel/sys.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index afd0f7e..dad3c63 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -362,6 +362,29 @@ int unregister_reboot_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_reboot_notifier);

+/* Add backwards compatibility for stable trees. */
+#ifndef PF_NO_SETAFFINITY
+#define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY PF_THREAD_BOUND
+#endif
+
+static void migrate_to_reboot_cpu(void)
+{
+ /* The boot cpu is always logical cpu 0 */
+ int reboot_cpu = 0;
+
+ cpu_hotplug_disable();
+
+ /* Make certain the cpu I'm about to reboot on is online */
+ if (!cpu_online(reboot_cpu))
+ reboot_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
+
+ /* Prevent races with other tasks migrating this task */
+ current->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY;
+
+ /* Make certain I only run on the appropriate processor */
+ set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(reboot_cpu));
+}
+
/**
* kernel_restart - reboot the system
* @cmd: pointer to buffer containing command to execute for restart
@@ -373,7 +396,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_reboot_notifier);
void kernel_restart(char *cmd)
{
kernel_restart_prepare(cmd);
- disable_nonboot_cpus();
+ migrate_to_reboot_cpu();
syscore_shutdown();
if (!cmd)
printk(KERN_EMERG "Restarting system.\n");
@@ -400,7 +423,7 @@ static void kernel_shutdown_prepare(enum system_states state)
void kernel_halt(void)
{
kernel_shutdown_prepare(SYSTEM_HALT);
- disable_nonboot_cpus();
+ migrate_to_reboot_cpu();
syscore_shutdown();
printk(KERN_EMERG "System halted.\n");
kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_HALT);
@@ -419,7 +442,7 @@ void kernel_power_off(void)
kernel_shutdown_prepare(SYSTEM_POWER_OFF);
if (pm_power_off_prepare)
pm_power_off_prepare();
- disable_nonboot_cpus();
+ migrate_to_reboot_cpu();
syscore_shutdown();
printk(KERN_EMERG "Power down.\n");
kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_POWEROFF);
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