Re: 2.6-bk: cpu hotplug + preempt = smp_processor_id warnings galore

From: Nathan Lynch
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 17:01:43 EST


On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 11:59:04AM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> How about;
>
> Index: linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/kernel/softirq.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/kernel/softirq.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
> diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 softirq.c
> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/kernel/softirq.c 11 Feb 2005 05:14:57 -0000 1.1.1.1
> +++ linux-2.6.11-rc3-mm2/kernel/softirq.c 12 Feb 2005 18:24:54 -0000
> @@ -355,8 +355,12 @@ static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu)
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>
> while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
> - if (!local_softirq_pending())
> + preempt_disable();
> + if (!local_softirq_pending()) {
> + preempt_enable_no_resched();
> schedule();
> + preempt_disable();
> + }
>
> __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>
> @@ -364,14 +368,14 @@ static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu)
> /* Preempt disable stops cpu going offline.
> If already offline, we'll be on wrong CPU:
> don't process */
> - preempt_disable();
> if (cpu_is_offline((long)__bind_cpu))
> goto wait_to_die;
> do_softirq();
> - preempt_enable();
> + preempt_enable_no_resched();
> cond_resched();
> + preempt_disable();
> }
> -
> + preempt_enable();
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> }
> __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
>

Works ok here.

It looks as if we need to explicitly bind worker threads to a newly
onlined cpu. This gets rid of the smp_processor_id warnings from
cache_reap. Adding a little more instrumentation to the debug
smp_processor_id showed that new worker threads were actually running
on the wrong cpu...

Does this look ok?

Index: linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2/kernel/workqueue.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2.orig/kernel/workqueue.c 2005-02-14 11:13:08.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.11-rc4-bk2/kernel/workqueue.c 2005-02-14 15:18:35.000000000 -0600
@@ -485,8 +485,10 @@

case CPU_ONLINE:
/* Kick off worker threads. */
- list_for_each_entry(wq, &workqueues, list)
+ list_for_each_entry(wq, &workqueues, list) {
+ kthread_bind(wq->cpu_wq[hotcpu].thread, hotcpu);
wake_up_process(wq->cpu_wq[hotcpu].thread);
+ }
break;

case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
-
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