netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/45] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs to prevent CPU offline from atomic context

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:49:56 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org,
	oleg@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	mingo@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
	walken@...gle.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, sbw@....edu, fweisbec@...il.com,
	zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/45] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs to prevent CPU offline
 from atomic context

On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 19:08 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> The current CPU offline code uses stop_machine() internally. And disabling
> preemption prevents stop_machine() from taking effect, thus also preventing
> CPUs from going offline, as a side effect.
> 
> There are places where this side-effect of preempt_disable() (or equivalent)
> is used to synchronize with CPU hotplug. Typically these are in atomic
> sections of code, where they can't make use of get/put_online_cpus(), because
> the latter set of APIs can sleep.
> 
> Going forward, we want to get rid of stop_machine() from the CPU hotplug
> offline path. And then, with stop_machine() gone, disabling preemption will
> no longer prevent CPUs from going offline.
> 
> So provide a set of APIs for such atomic hotplug readers, to prevent (any)
> CPUs from going offline. For now, they will default to preempt_disable()
> and preempt_enable() itself, but this will help us do the tree-wide conversion,
> as a preparatory step to remove stop_machine() from CPU hotplug.
> 
> (Besides, it is good documentation as well, since it clearly marks places
> where we synchronize with CPU hotplug, instead of combining it subtly with
> disabling preemption).
> 
> In future, when actually removing stop_machine(), we will alter the
> implementation of these APIs to a suitable synchronization scheme.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve

> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/cpu.h |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/cpu.c        |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 56 insertions(+)


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