Re: [PATCH v6 01/11] x86/apic/x2apic: Fix parallel handling of cluster_mask

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2023-02-07 at 00:20 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> 
> TBH. The logic of this code is anything but obvious. Something like the
> uncompiled below perhaps?

Looks sane to me. I'll tweak the comments a bit and give it a spin;
thanks.

...

> +        * At boot time CPU present mask is stable. If the cluster is not
> +        * yet initialized, allocate the mask and propagate it to all
> +        * siblings in this cluster.
>          */
> -       if (cluster_hotplug_mask) {
> -               if (cluster_hotplug_mask->node == node)
> -                       return 0;
> -               kfree(cluster_hotplug_mask);
> -       }
> +       if (system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING)
> +               goto alloc;
> +
> +       /*
> +        * On post boot hotplug iterate over the present CPUs to handle the
> +        * case of partial clusters as they might be presented by
> +        * virtualization.
> +        */
> +       for_each_present_cpu(cpu_i) {


So... if this CPU was *present* at boot time (and if any other CPU in
this cluster was present), it will already have a cluster_mask.

Which means we get here in two cases: 

 • This CPU wasn't actually present (was just 'possible') at boot time.
   (Is that actually a thing that happens?)

 • This CPU was present but no other CPU in this cluster was actually
   brought up at boot time so the cluster_mask wasn't allocated.

The code looks right, I don't grok the comment about partial clusters
and virtualization, and would have worded it something along the above
lines?

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