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| author | Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> | 2009-11-26 09:59:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-12-09 17:09:36 +1100 |
| commit | 51badebdcf394cc5fd574a524b55b3f6085e5e9c (patch) | |
| tree | 2e8173c3995f45a88826d5f453545a2c8dd86621 /include/linux/cpu.h | |
| parent | b6db63d1a7f0138f348ba7a648df35ac6365988e (diff) | |
powerpc/pseries: Serialize cpu hotplug operations during deactivate Vs deallocate
Currently the cpu-allocation/deallocation process comprises of two steps:
- Set the indicators and to update the device tree with DLPAR node
information.
- Online/offline the allocated/deallocated CPU.
This is achieved by writing to the sysfs tunables "probe" during allocation
and "release" during deallocation.
At the sametime, the userspace can independently online/offline the CPUs of
the system using the sysfs tunable "online".
It is quite possible that when a userspace tool offlines a CPU
for the purpose of deallocation and is in the process of updating the device
tree, some other userspace tool could bring the CPU back online by writing to
the "online" sysfs tunable thereby causing the deallocate process to fail.
The solution to this is to serialize writes to the "probe/release" sysfs
tunable with the writes to the "online" sysfs tunable.
This patch employs a mutex to provide this serialization, which is a no-op on
all architectures except PPC_PSERIES
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cpu.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cpu.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h index c972f7ccb7d3..e287863ac053 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpu.h +++ b/include/linux/cpu.h @@ -117,6 +117,19 @@ extern void put_online_cpus(void); #define unregister_hotcpu_notifier(nb) unregister_cpu_notifier(nb) int cpu_down(unsigned int cpu); +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE +extern void cpu_hotplug_driver_lock(void); +extern void cpu_hotplug_driver_unlock(void); +#else +static inline void cpu_hotplug_driver_lock(void) +{ +} + +static inline void cpu_hotplug_driver_unlock(void) +{ +} +#endif + #else /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */ #define get_online_cpus() do { } while (0) |