linux-kernel - Re: [patch 31/66] x86/kvm/kvmclock: Convert to hotplug state machine

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:11:23 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 31/66] x86/kvm/kvmclock: Convert to hotplug state
 machine

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Anna-Maria Gleixner wrote:

> @@ -5896,7 +5877,7 @@ void kvm_arch_exit(void)
>  	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC))
>  		cpufreq_unregister_notifier(&kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier_block,
>  					    CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER);
> -	unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&kvmclock_cpu_notifier_block);
> +	cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_X86_KVM_CLK_ONLINE);

I'm sorry, this is buggy and wants to be:

    cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_X86_KVM_CLK_ONLINE);

See delta patch below.

    Anna-Maria

8<-----------------

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5877,7 +5877,7 @@ void kvm_arch_exit(void)
 	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC))
 		cpufreq_unregister_notifier(&kvmclock_cpufreq_notifier_block,
 					    CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER);
-	cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_X86_KVM_CLK_ONLINE);
+	cpuhp_remove_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_X86_KVM_CLK_ONLINE);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 	pvclock_gtod_unregister_notifier(&pvclock_gtod_notifier);
 #endif