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Message-ID: <20231020134836.GE33965@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:48:36 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@....com>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>, rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@...il.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Revert "kernel/sched: Modify initial boot task idle
setup"
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 02:31:13PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Yeah I can't say I really like the old coverage of PF_IDLE either. The new one
> (after Liam's patch) is only halfway better defined though: it makes the boot
> CPU's idle behave quite well: PF_IDLE is set on idle entry. And secondary
> CPU's idle behave quite well also except when they go offline and then online
> again. And then the secondary boot code becomes PF_IDLE.
Bah offline, yeah, we should just not do that :-)
> We probably need something like this:
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
> index 3b9d5c7eb4a2..b24d7937b989 100644
> --- a/kernel/cpu.c
> +++ b/kernel/cpu.c
> @@ -1394,7 +1394,9 @@ void cpuhp_report_idle_dead(void)
> {
> struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st = this_cpu_ptr(&cpuhp_state);
>
> + current->flags &= ~PF_IDLE;
> BUG_ON(st->state != CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE);
> +
> rcutree_report_cpu_dead();
> st->state = CPUHP_AP_IDLE_DEAD;
> /*
> @@ -1642,6 +1644,8 @@ void cpuhp_online_idle(enum cpuhp_state state)
> {
> struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st = this_cpu_ptr(&cpuhp_state);
>
> + current->flags |= PF_IDLE;
> +
> /* Happens for the boot cpu */
> if (state != CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE)
> return;
Yeah that works I suppose.
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