linux-kernel - [PATCH] cpu/hotplug: Provide dynamic range for prepare stage

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:01:05 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Sewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cpu/hotplug: Provide dynamic range for prepare stage

Mathieu reported that the LTTNG modules are broken as of 4.10-rc1 due to
the removal of the cpu hotplug notifiers.

Usually I don't care much about out of tree modules, but LTTNG is widely
used in distros. There are two ways to solve that:

1) Reserve a hotplug state for LTTNG

2) Add a dynamic range for the prepare states.

While #1 is the simplest solution, #2 is the proper one as we can convert
in tree users, which do not care about ordering, to the dynamic range as
well.

Add a dynamic range which allows LTTNG to request states in the prepare
stage.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

---

diff --git a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
index 20bfefbe7594..d936a0021839 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ enum cpuhp_state {
 	CPUHP_ZCOMP_PREPARE,
 	CPUHP_TIMERS_DEAD,
 	CPUHP_MIPS_SOC_PREPARE,
+	CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN,
+	CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN_END		= CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN + 20,
 	CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU,
 	CPUHP_AP_IDLE_DEAD,
 	CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE,
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index f75c4d031eeb..c47506357519 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1302,10 +1302,24 @@ static int cpuhp_cb_check(enum cpuhp_state state)
  */
 static int cpuhp_reserve_state(enum cpuhp_state state)
 {
-	enum cpuhp_state i;
+	enum cpuhp_state i, end;
+	struct cpuhp_step *step;
 
-	for (i = CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN; i <= CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN_END; i++) {
-		if (!cpuhp_ap_states[i].name)
+	switch (state) {
+	case CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN:
+		step = cpuhp_ap_states + CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN;
+		end = CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN_END;
+		break;
+	case CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN:
+		step = cpuhp_bp_states + CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN;
+		end = CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN_END;
+		break;
+	default:
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	for (i = state; i <= end; i++, step++) {
+		if (!step->name)
 			return i;
 	}
 	WARN(1, "No more dynamic states available for CPU hotplug\n");
@@ -1323,7 +1337,7 @@ static int cpuhp_store_callbacks(enum cpuhp_state state, const char *name,
 
 	mutex_lock(&cpuhp_state_mutex);
 
-	if (state == CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN) {
+	if (state == CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN || state == CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN) {
 		ret = cpuhp_reserve_state(state);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			goto out;