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SubjectRe: CPU Hotplug: Hotplug Script And SIGPWR


Tim Hockin wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:14:12PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>>Under what conditions? Not arbitrary entropy, surely. If a hotplug script
>>>is present and does not blow up, it should be safe to assume it will be run
>>>upon an event being delivered. If not, we have a WAY bigger problem :)
>>>
>>>
>>That assumption is not safe. The main problems are of course process limits
>>and memory allocation failure.
>>
>
>If root has a process limit that make hotplug scripts fail to run, then
>we're hosed in a lot of ways. And if we fail to allocate memory, there
>really ought to be some retry or something. It seems to me that a failure
>to run a hotplug script is a BAD THING.
>

(or OOM killed being another that comes to mind)

It is sometimes inevitable. With that knowledge we should be designing
for graceful failure.

>
>>>Sending it a SIGPWR means you have to run it on a different CPU that it was
>>>affined to, which is already a violation.
>>>
>>At least the task has the option to handle the problem.
>>
>
>But it is a violation of the affinity. As the kernel we CAN NOT know what
>the affinity really means.
>

Not if the application is designed to handle it. How would hotplug
scripts make this any different, anyway?

> Maybe there is some way for a task to indicate
>it would like to receive SIGPWR in that case. Or some other signal. Can we
>invent new signals?
>
>That way a task that KNOWS about the CPU disappearing underneath it can be
>wise, while everything else will not just get killed.
>

Rusty thought you just wouldn't send it unless the process was handling
it.


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