linux-kernel - Re: latest -git: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/ipi.c:123 send_IPI_mask

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Message-ID: <48AE5BB8.5080701@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:24:56 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: latest -git: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/ipi.c:123	send_IPI_mask_bitmask+0xc3/0xe0()

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> You may want to see if this patch fixes the problem; it does *NOT* have 
>> the correct error behaviour (some of the intervening layers don't 
>> propagate errors), but it should make the fault go away.
> 
> The alternative would be to just take out those msr_on_cpu() 
> interfaces again. Right now they are useless in the kernel,
> but still cause problems.
> 
> They were only added for OpenVZ's vCPUs which they back then
> promised me would hit mainline soon. But that was some time
> ago and there wasn't much progress on this.
> 
> -Andi

We still need the equivalent functionality, though.  The midlayer 
(msr_on_cpu) may be pointless, but that doesn't change the fact that 
putting this functionality in the lower layer (smp_call_function_single) 
makes more sense.

	-hpa
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