linux-kernel - Re: patch "x86: MOVE PCI IO ECS code to x86/pci" breaks CPU hotplug

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:19:34 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	<robert.richter@....com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patch "x86: MOVE PCI IO ECS code to x86/pci" breaks CPU
	hotplug

>>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> 21.08.08 15:02 >>>
>
>* Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com> wrote:
>
>> Converting __cpuinit functions called out of init_amd() (and similar 
>> others) to __init (and making them subject of xxx_initcall() handling 
>> isn't valid, as they would no longer be called for hot plugged CPUs.
>> 
>> Further, since it's likely that in virtualized environments the MSR 
>> write would at best be ignored, I'd also recommend using the 
>> fault-safe accessors here *and* check that the bit actually got set 
>> before setting PCI_HAS_IO_ECS (one would obviously have to BUG() when 
>> hot-plugged CPUs fail to set the bit when those available at boot 
>> successfully did so).
>
>hm, which patch is this exactly, and in what tree? It's not upstream nor 
>in -tip.

It is upstream:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a27dd1ce5de08e21e0266ddf00e6f1f843bfe8b
(and I just verified it didn't change between -rc3 and -rc4).

Jan

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