linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all present CPUs

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 11:35:55 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] genirq/affinity: assign vectors to all present CPUs

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 08:31:47PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > -	/* Stabilize the cpumasks */
> > -	get_online_cpus();
> 
> How is that protected against physical CPU hotplug? Physical CPU hotplug
> manipulates the present mask.

It does indeed seem to.  Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst claims
there are no locking rules for manipulations of cpu_present_mask,
maybe it needs and update to mention get/put_online_cpus() ?

Or maybe I should just switch to possible_cpu mask here like a lot of
code seems to do to avoid the hot plug issues, but that might be a bit
of a waste.