On 07/19/2012 03:43 AM, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> Srivatsa S. Bhat ([email protected]) wrote:
>> On 06/23/2012 03:36 AM, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
>>> A cpu in the mm_cpumask could go offline before we send the invalidate
>>> IPI causing us to wait forever. Avoid this by only waiting for online
>>> cpus.
>>>
[...]
>> This function is always called with preempt_disabled() right?
>> In that case, _while_ this function is running, a CPU cannot go offline
>> because of stop_machine(). (I understand that it might go offline in between
>> calculating that cpumask and calling preempt_disable() - which is the race
>> you are trying to handle).
>>
>
> Ah. Good point. A cpu cannot be remove from the cpu_online_mask while
> preemption is disabled because stop_machine() can't run until
> preemption is enabled.
>
> ./kernel/cpu.c: err = __stop_machine(take_cpu_down, &tcd_param,
> cpumask_of(cpu));
>
>> So, why not take the offline cpus out of the way even before sending that
>> IPI?
>> That way, we need not modify the while loop below.
>>
>
> Acked-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <[email protected]>
>
> Do you mind re-sending you're patch with a proper sign-off.
>
Sure, will do. I'll post it in a separate thread.
Thanks!
Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
>
>>> - while (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask)))
>>> + /* Only wait for online cpus */
>>> + do {
>>> + cpumask_and(to_cpumask(tmp_cpumask),
>>> + to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask),
>>> + cpu_online_mask);
>>> cpu_relax();
>>> + } while (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(tmp_cpumask)));
>>> }
>>>
>>> f->flush_mm = NULL;
>>>
>>
>> That is, how about something like this:
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
>> index 5e57e11..9d387a9 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
>> @@ -186,7 +186,11 @@ static void flush_tlb_others_ipi(const struct cpumask
>> *cpumask,
>>
>> f->flush_mm = mm;
>> f->flush_va = va;
>> - if (cpumask_andnot(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask), cpumask,
>> cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()))) {
>> +
>> + cpumask_and(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask), cpumask, cpu_online_mask);
>> + cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask));
>> +
>> + if (!cpumask_empty(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask))) {
>> /*
>> * We have to send the IPI only to
>> * CPUs affected.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Srivatsa S. Bhat
>> IBM Linux Technology Center
>>
>
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