linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] stopmachine: add stopmachine

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Message-ID: <487D93CD.1000007@qualcomm.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:23:09 -0700
From:	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>
To:	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stopmachine: add stopmachine_timeout v2



Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
> Thank you for useful feedbacks!
> Here is the updated version.
> Could you put this on top of your patches, Rusty?
> 
> Thanks,
> H.Seto
> 
> 
> If stop_machine() invoked while one of onlined cpu is locked up
> by some reason, stop_machine cannot finish its work because the
> locked cpu cannot stop.  This means all other healthy cpus
> will be blocked infinitely by one dead cpu.
> 
> This patch allows stop_machine to return -EBUSY with some printk
> messages if any of stop_machine's threads cannot start running on
> its target cpu.
> 
> v2:
>  - remove fix for warning since it will be fixed upcoming typesafe
>    patches
>  - make stopmachine_timeout from secs to msecs, and set default to
>    200 msec (since v1's arbitrary 5 sec is too long)
>  - allow disabling timeout by setting the stopmachine_timeout to 0
> 

I'd set the default to zero. I beleive that's what Heiko suggested too.

Max
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