linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86: fix cpu-hotplug regression

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Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 02:12:58 +0100
From:	"Andreas Herrmann" <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
To:	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Akinobu Mita" <akinobu.mita@...il.com>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: fix cpu-hotplug regression

[PATCH] x86: fix cpu-hotplug regression

Commit d435d862baca3e25e5eec236762a43251b1e7ffc
("cpu hotplug: mce: fix cpu hotplug error handling")
changed the error handling in mce_cpu_callback.

In cases where not all CPUs are brought up during
boot (e.g. using maxcpus and additional_cpus parameters)
mce_cpu_callback now returns NOTFIY_BAD because
for such CPUs cpu_data is not completely filled when
the notifier is called. Thus mce_create_device fails right
at its beginning:

        if (!mce_available(&cpu_data[cpu]))
                return -EIO;

As a quick fix I suggest to check boot_cpu_data for MCE.

To reproduce this regression:

(1) boot with maxcpus=2 addtional_cpus=2 on a 4 CPU x86-64 system
(2) # echo 1 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
  -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

dmesg shows:

_cpu_up: attempt to bring up CPU 2 failed

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
index b9f802e..5112a70 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ static __cpuinit int mce_create_device(unsigned int cpu)
 	int err;
 	int i;
 
-	if (!mce_available(&cpu_data(cpu)))
+	if (!mce_available(&boot_cpu_data))
 		return -EIO;
 
 	memset(&per_cpu(device_mce, cpu).kobj, 0, sizeof(struct kobject));
-- 
1.5.3.4




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