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Message-Id: <200901151124.22442.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:24:21 +1030
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@....com>, Dieter Ries <clip2@....de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot
On Monday 12 January 2009 20:30:53 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> work_on_cpu() seems
> completely unsuited for any sort of set_cpus_allowed() replacement ...
That's harsh. set_cpus_allowed is *always* questionable in these cases. Sometimes it's harmless, and sometimes there was a risk that we could run on the wrong cpu.
The mistake was that work_on_cpu() should rely on the caller to ensure the CPU doesn't go away. It's a worse interface, but this reduces the number of *new* bugs, at least.
Subject: cpumask: don't try to get_online_cpus() in work_on_cpu.
This has caused more problems than it solved, with a pile of cpu
hotplug locking issues.
Followup patches will get_online_cpus() in callers that need it, but
if they don't do it they're no worse than before when they were using
set_cpus_allowed without locking.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -991,8 +991,7 @@ static void do_work_for_cpu(struct work_
* @fn: the function to run
* @arg: the function arg
*
- * This will return -EINVAL in the cpu is not online, or the return value
- * of @fn otherwise.
+ * It is up to the caller to ensure that the cpu doesn't go offline.
*/
long work_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, long (*fn)(void *), void *arg)
{
@@ -1001,14 +1000,12 @@ long work_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, long
INIT_WORK(&wfc.work, do_work_for_cpu);
wfc.fn = fn;
wfc.arg = arg;
- get_online_cpus();
if (unlikely(!cpu_online(cpu)))
wfc.ret = -EINVAL;
else {
schedule_work_on(cpu, &wfc.work);
flush_work(&wfc.work);
}
- put_online_cpus();
return wfc.ret;
}
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