| From: |
| "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
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| Subject: |
| [RFC PATCH 00/10] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug |
| Date: |
| Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:23:02 +0530 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20121204085149.25919.29920.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com> |
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| sbw@mit.edu, tj@kernel.org, amit.kucheria@linaro.org,
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Hi,
This patchset removes CPU hotplug's dependence on stop_machine() from the CPU
offline path and provides an alternative (set of APIs) to preempt_disable() to
prevent CPUs from going offline, which can be invoked from atomic context.
This is an RFC patchset with only a few call-sites of preempt_disable()
converted to the new APIs for now, and the main goal is to get feedback on the
design of the new atomic APIs and see if it serves as a viable replacement for
stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug.
Overview of the patches:
-----------------------
Patch 1 introduces the new APIs that can be used from atomic context, to
prevent CPUs from going offline.
Patches 2 to 6 convert various call-sites to use the new APIs.
Patches 7, 8 and 9 fix a KVM issue that comes into picture when we remove
stop_machine() from the CPU hotplug path. (Actually, patches 7 and 8 are
already in the kvm tree. Patch 9 is the fix we need, but I preserved the
other 2 as well so that the patches can apply easily without external
dependencies).
Patch 10 is the one which actually removes stop_machine() from the CPU
offline path.
Comments and suggestions welcome!
--
Michael Wang (2):
CPU hotplug: Introduce "stable" cpu online mask, for atomic hotplug readers
smp, cpu hotplug: Fix smp_call_function_*() to prevent CPU offline properly
Paul E. McKenney (1):
cpu: No more __stop_machine() in _cpu_down()
Srivatsa S. Bhat (4):
smp, cpu hotplug: Fix on_each_cpu_*() to prevent CPU offline properly
sched, cpu hotplug: Use stable online cpus in try_to_wake_up() & select_task_rq()
kick_process(), cpu-hotplug: Prevent offlining of target CPU properly
yield_to(), cpu-hotplug: Prevent offlining of other CPUs properly
Xiao Guangrong (3):
KVM: VMX: fix invalid cpu passed to smp_call_function_single
KVM: VMX: fix memory order between loading vmcs and clearing vmcs
KVM: VMX: fix unsyc vmcs status when cpu is going down
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 32 ++++++++++-
include/linux/cpu.h | 4 +
include/linux/cpumask.h | 5 ++
kernel/cpu.c | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
kernel/sched/core.c | 28 +++++++---
kernel/smp.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++------------
6 files changed, 246 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
Thanks,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
IBM Linux Technology Center
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