linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] reboot: support offline CPUs before reboot

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Date:   Thu, 16 Jan 2020 22:20:28 -0600
From:   Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:     Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
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        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4] reboot: support offline CPUs before reboot

On 1/14/20 5:06 AM, Hsin-Yi Wang wrote:
> This patch adds a config ARCH_OFFLINE_CPUS_ON_REBOOT, which would offline cpus in
> migrate_to_reboot_cpu(). If non reboot cpus are all offlined here, the loop for
> checking online cpus would be an empty loop. If architecture don't enable this
> config, or some cpus somehow fails to offline, it would fallback to ipi
> function.

I'm curious:

> +# Select to do a full offline on secondary CPUs before reboot.
> +config ARCH_OFFLINE_CPUS_ON_REBOOT
> +	bool "Support for offline CPUs before reboot"
> +	depends on HOTPLUG_CPU

The new symbol can't be selected without the other symbol.

> +	select ARCH_OFFLINE_CPUS_ON_REBOOT if HOTPLUG_CPU

And the other symbol automatically selects the new one.

Why are you adding a second symbol that means the same thing as the existing symbol?

> +#if defined(CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_ARCH_OFFLINE_CPUS_ON_REBOOT)
> +extern int freeze_secondary_cpus(int primary, bool reboot);
> +#endif

Couldn't that just test HOTPLUG_CPU? What's the second symbol for? (You can have
empty stub functions when architectures don't support a thing...)

Rob