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Date:   Sat, 15 Apr 2023 01:44:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, David Woodhouse <dwmw@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        "Arjan van de Veen" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...alenko.name>,
        Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
        Piotr Gorski <lucjan.lucjanov@...il.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        Usama Arif <usama.arif@...edance.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>,
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        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
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        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Sabin Rapan <sabrapan@...zon.com>
Subject: [patch 15/37] x86/smpboot: Remove wait for cpu_online()

Now that the core code drops sparse_irq_lock after the idle thread
synchronized, it's pointless to wait for the AP to mark itself online.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c |   25 ++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1110,20 +1110,6 @@ static int wait_cpu_initialized(unsigned
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * Bringup step three: Wait for the target AP to reach set_cpu_online() in
- * start_secondary().
- */
-static void wait_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
-{
-	/*
-	 * Wait for the AP to mark itself online, so the core caller
-	 * can drop sparse_irq_lock.
-	 */
-	while (!cpu_online(cpu))
-		schedule();
-}
-
 static int native_kick_ap(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
 {
 	int apicid = apic->cpu_present_to_apicid(cpu);
@@ -1170,16 +1156,9 @@ int native_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, stru
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = native_kick_ap(cpu, tidle);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-
-	ret = wait_cpu_initialized(cpu);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
-
-	wait_cpu_online(cpu);
+	if (!ret)
+		ret = wait_cpu_initialized(cpu);
 
-out:
 	/* Cleanup possible dangling ends... */
 	if (x86_platform.legacy.warm_reset)
 		smpboot_restore_warm_reset_vector();

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