Re: [PATCH] microcode: do not WARN_ON(cpu != 0) during resume

From: Anton Arapov
Date: Fri Feb 04 2011 - 07:59:35 EST


Andrew,

may we have this patch in -mm? It has an ack from Jeremy as well.

thanks,
Anton.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:53:44PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 871b72dd "x86: microcode: use smp_call_function_single instead of
> set_cpus_allowed, cleanup of synchronization logic" included:
>
> static int mc_sysdev_resume(struct sys_device *dev)
> {
> [...]
> + /*
> + * All non-bootup cpus are still disabled,
> + * so only CPU 0 will apply ucode here.
> + *
> + * Moreover, there can be no concurrent
> + * updates from any other places at this point.
> + */
> + WARN_ON(cpu != 0);
>
> However suspend/resume under Xen doesn't need to hot unplug all the CPUs, so we
> don't; the hypervisor can manage the context save/restore for all CPUs.
>
> It would be unnecessary to load microcode.ko in a Xen domU but if it does occur
> (e.g. because a distro installs the tools by default) we would like to avoid
> the warning on resume.
>
> Since the real constraint here is that we are running on the CPU for which we
> would like to load microcode (which in all practical circumstances is CPU0)
> just check for that and return if we are resuming a different CPU.
>
> There is no danger of concurrent updates, even if we ignore the fact that all
> but one CPUs are unplugged on native, because sysdev_resume() is single
> threaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Anton Arapov <aarapov@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 11 +----------
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> index 378e9a8..1153062 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> @@ -438,18 +438,9 @@ static int mc_sysdev_resume(struct sys_device *dev)
> int cpu = dev->id;
> struct ucode_cpu_info *uci = ucode_cpu_info + cpu;
>
> - if (!cpu_online(cpu))
> + if (cpu != smp_processor_id())
> return 0;
>
> - /*
> - * All non-bootup cpus are still disabled,
> - * so only CPU 0 will apply ucode here.
> - *
> - * Moreover, there can be no concurrent
> - * updates from any other places at this point.
> - */
> - WARN_ON(cpu != 0);
> -
> if (uci->valid && uci->mc)
> microcode_ops->apply_microcode(cpu);
>
> --
> 1.5.6.5
>
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