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DateThu, 5 Jan 2006 17:18:06 -0600
FromNathan Lynch <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix workqueue oops during cpu offline
Ashok Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:45:50PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> > On 1/4/06, Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > This is where things go wrong -- any_online_cpu() now gets 1, not 0.
> > > In queue_work, the cpu_workqueue_struct at per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, 1) is
> > > uninitialized.
> > 
> > Same issue on ia64 when I tried to add Ashok' s patch to allow
> > removal of cpu0 (BSP in ia64-speak).  Ashok told me that this fix
> > solves the problem for us too.
> > 
> 
> Is this safe to use in NUMA path as well? Not that memory hot-remove is there
> yet today, but if a NUMA node is being removed, i would assume the memory for 
> that node goes with it. i.e assuming alloc_percpu() gets node local memory for 
> each cpu.

I guess I don't understand your concern here -- the workqueue patch
doesn't introduce any potential difficulty with memory or node removal
that alloc_percpu didn't already have.


> So is it safe to continue to reference an area of an offline cpu that may not
> exist?

Yes.
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