Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen/smp: Use die_complete completion when taking CPU down

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 10/31/2014 06:13 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 10/22/2014 01:09 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > > Commit 2ed53c0d6cc9 ("x86/smpboot: Speed up suspend/resume by avoiding
> > > 100ms sleep for CPU offline during S3") introduced completions to CPU
> > > offlining process. These completions are not initialized on Xen kernels
> > > causing a panic in play_dead_common().
> > >
> > > Move handling of die_complete into common routines to make them
> > > available to Xen guests.
> > >
> > > (While at it, move die_complete definition under #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > v3: Don't #ifdef function prototypes in smp.h
> > > v2: Keep die_complete private to smpboot.c
> > >
> > >
> > >   arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h |  1 +
> > >   arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c  | 13 +++++++++++--
> > >   arch/x86/xen/smp.c         |  3 +++
> > >   3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > Does anything else need to be done in this patch? We have CPU
> > hotplug broken currently in Xen and it would be nice to have it
> > fixed in rc3.
> There's a build warning fix that this change conflicts with:
>
>   db6a00b4bed3 x86/smpboot: Move data structure to its primary usage scope
>
> it would be nice if you could rebase it to tip:master or
> tip:x86/urgent so I can push it upstream ASAP.


Thanks Ingo. Will do.

-boris

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