Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 5 authors, 2015-01-22

Re: offlining cpus breakage

From: Preeti U Murthy <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-16 09:10:18

On 01/16/2015 02:26 PM, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
On 01/16/2015 08:34 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
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On Fri, 2015-01-16 at 13:28 +1300, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
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On 01/16/2015 02:22 AM, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
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Hi Alexey,

Can you let me know if the following patch fixes the issue for you ?
It did for us on one of our machines that we were investigating on.
This fixes the issue for me as well, thanks!

Tested-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <redacted>	
OK, that's great.

But, I really don't think we can ask upstream to merge this patch to generic
code when we don't have a good explanation for why it's necessary. At least I'm
not going to ask anyone to do that :)

So Pretti can you either write a 100% convincing explanation of why this patch
is correct in the general case, or (preferably) do some more investigating to
work out what Alexey's bug actually is.
Yes will do so. Its better to investigate where precisely is the bug.
This patch helped me narrow down on the buggy scenario.
On a side note, while I was tracking the race condition, I noticed that
in the final stage of the cpu offline path, after the state of the
hotplugged cpu is set to CPU_DEAD, we check if there were interrupts
delivered during the soft disabled state and service them if there were.
It makes sense to check for pending interrupts in the idle path. In the
offline path however, this did not look right to me at first glance. Am
I missing something ?

Regards
Preeti U Murthy
Regards
Preeti U Murthy
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cheers


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