[PATCH] nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus

From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Thu Dec 11 2008 - 11:05:53 EST


From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>

After a cpu was taken down during cpu hotplug (read: disabled for interrupts)
it still might have pending softirqs. However take_cpu_down makes sure
that the idle task will run next instead of ksoftirqd on the taken down cpu.
The idle task will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick which might warn about
pending softirqs just before the cpu kills itself completely.
However the pending softirqs on the dead cpu aren't a problem because they
will be moved to an online cpu during CPU_DEAD handling.

So make sure we warn only for online cpus.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(int inidl
if (need_resched())
goto end;

- if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending())) {
+ if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending() && cpu_online(cpu))) {
static int ratelimit;

if (ratelimit < 10) {
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