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powerpc/pseries: Serialize cpu hotplug operations during deactivate Vs deallocate

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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>
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Gautham R Shenoy 2009-11-26 09:59:05 +00:00 • committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent b6db63d1a7
commit 51badebdcf
3 changed files with 50 additions and 10 deletions
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drivers/base/cpu.c
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@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ static ssize_t __ref store_online(struct sys_device *dev, struct sysdev_attribut
struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, sysdev);
ssize_t ret;
cpu_hotplug_driver_lock();
switch (buf[0]) {
case '0':
ret = cpu_down(cpu->sysdev.id);
@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ static ssize_t __ref store_online(struct sys_device *dev, struct sysdev_attribut
default:
ret = -EINVAL;
}
cpu_hotplug_driver_unlock();
if (ret >= 0)
ret = count;