linux-kernel - [PATCH] nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus

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Message-ID: <20081211160411.GC6264@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:04:11 +0100
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>

After a cpu was taken down during cpu hotplug (read: disabled for interrupts)
it still might have pending softirqs. However take_cpu_down makes sure
that the idle task will run next instead of ksoftirqd on the taken down cpu.
The idle task will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick which might warn about
pending softirqs just before the cpu kills itself completely.
However the pending softirqs on the dead cpu aren't a problem because they
will be moved to an online cpu during CPU_DEAD handling.

So make sure we warn only for online cpus.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
---
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidl
 	if (need_resched())
 		goto end;
 
-	if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending())) {
+	if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending() && cpu_online(cpu))) {
 		static int ratelimit;
 
 		if (ratelimit < 10) {
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