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2013-02-26stop_machine: Mark per cpu stopper enabled earlyThomas Gleixner
commit 14e568e78 (stop_machine: Use smpboot threads) introduced the following regression: Before this commit the stopper enabled bit was set in the online notifier. CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online hotplug_notifier(ONLINE) stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; ... stop_machine() The conversion to smpboot threads moved the enablement to the wakeup path of the parked thread. The majority of users seem to have the following working order: CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online unpark_threads() wakeup(stopper[CPU1]) .... stopper thread runs stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; stop_machine() But Konrad and Sander have observed: CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online unpark_threads() wakeup(stopper[CPU1]) .... stop_machine() stopper thread runs stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; Now the stop machinery kicks CPU0 into the stop loop, where it gets stuck forever because the queue code saw stopper(CPU1)->enabled == false, so CPU0 waits for CPU1 to enter stomp_machine, but the CPU1 stopper work got discarded due to enabled == false. Add a pre_unpark function to the smpboot thread descriptor and call it before waking the thread. This fixes the problem at hand, but the stop_machine code should be more robust. The stopper->enabled flag smells fishy at best. Thanks to Konrad for going through a loop of debug patches and providing the information to decode this issue. Reported-and-tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1302261843240.22263@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-02-14smpboot: Allow selfparking per cpu threadsThomas Gleixner
The stop machine threads are still killed when a cpu goes offline. The reason is that the thread is used to bring the cpu down, so it can't be parked along with the other per cpu threads. Allow a per cpu thread to be excluded from automatic parking, so it can park itself once it's done Add a create callback function as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130131120741.553993267@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-08-13smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threadsThomas Gleixner
Provide a generic interface for setting up and tearing down percpu threads. On registration the threads for already online cpus are created and started. On deregistration (modules) the threads are stoppped. During hotplug operations the threads are created, started, parked and unparked. The datastructure for registration provides a pointer to percpu storage space and optional setup, cleanup, park, unpark functions. These functions are called when the thread state changes. Each implementation has to provide a function which is queried and returns whether the thread should run and the thread function itself. The core code handles all state transitions and avoids duplicated code in the call sites. [ paulmck: Preemption leak fix ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120716103948.352501068@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>