Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:27:57 -0800 | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] ARM: smp: Only expose /sys/.../cpuX/online if hotpluggable |
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On 02/18/15 14:27, Simon Horman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 04:42:54PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: >> Writes to /sys/.../cpuX/online fail if we determine the platform >> doesn't support hotplug for that CPU. Furthermore, if the cpu_die >> op isn't specified the system hangs when we try to offline a CPU >> and it comes right back online unexpectedly. Let's figure this >> stuff out before we make the sysfs nodes so that the online file >> doesn't even exist if it isn't (at least sometimes) possible to >> hotplug the CPU. >> >> Add a new cpu_can_disable op and repoint all cpu_disable >> implementations at it because all current users use the op to >> indicate if a CPU can be hotplugged or not in a static fashion. >> With PSCI we may need to introduce a cpu_disable op so that the >> secure OS can be migrated off the CPU we're trying to hotplug. >> In this case, the cpu_can_disable op will indicate that all CPUs >> are hotpluggable by returning 1, but the cpu_disable op will make >> a PSCI migration call and occasionally fail, denying the hotplug >> of a CPU. This shouldn't be any worse than x86 where we may >> indicate that all CPUs are hotpluggable but occasionally we can't >> offline a CPU due to check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable() failing >> to find a CPU to move vectors to. >> >> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> >> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> >> Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> >> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> >> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> >> Cc: <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> >> --- >> >> Changes since v2: >> * Left cpu_disable op in place >> * Split out shmobile function deletion >> >> arch/arm/common/mcpm_platsmp.c | 12 ++++-------- >> arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h | 10 ++++++++++ >> arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 2 +- >> arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- >> arch/arm/mach-shmobile/common.h | 2 +- >> arch/arm/mach-shmobile/platsmp.c | 4 ++-- >> arch/arm/mach-shmobile/smp-r8a7790.c | 2 +- >> arch/arm/mach-shmobile/smp-r8a7791.c | 2 +- >> arch/arm/mach-shmobile/smp-sh73a0.c | 2 +- >> 9 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) > I think it would make sense to separate the ARM-core changes > from the mach-shmobile integration changes.
Are you saying two (three?) patches to add the op, and then move over each struct smp_operations? It's all going through rmk's tree so I'll leave that up to him.
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