From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: qemu:arm test failure due to commit 8053871d0f7f (smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() locking)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 20:01:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150419180140.GA8934@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5533B6D7.9050101@roeck-us.net>
* Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > I _think_ most such callers calling an SMP function call for
> > offline or out of range CPUs are at minimum racy.
>
> Not really; at least the online cpu part is an absolutely normal use
> case for qemu-arm.
The problem is that an IPI is attempted to be sent to a non-existent
CPU AFAICS, right?
> Sure, you can argue that "this isn't the real system", and that
> qemu-arm should be "fixed", but there are reasons - the emulation is
> (much) slower if the number of CPUs is set to 4, and not everyone
> who wants to use qemu has a system with as many CPUs as the emulated
> system would normally have.
That's all fine and good, but why is an IPI sent to a non-existent
CPU? It's not like we don't know which CPU is up and down.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-19 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-18 23:23 qemu:arm test failure due to commit 8053871d0f7f (smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() locking) Guenter Roeck
2015-04-18 23:40 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-19 0:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-19 0:36 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-19 1:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-19 3:39 ` Rabin Vincent
2015-04-19 4:03 ` Guenter Roeck
[not found] ` <CA+55aFw4FSja+VBuCYJ7wLXKVRQZ7w6vOUaUJ4B=FXyBmNkrUg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-19 8:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-19 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-19 14:08 ` Guenter Roeck
2015-04-19 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-04-19 20:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-20 5:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-20 12:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-20 15:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-04-20 15:41 ` Rabin Vincent
2015-04-20 10:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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