Commit 42514174 authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell

cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt

Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
parent 62ac1279
...@@ -315,41 +315,26 @@ A: The following are what is required for CPU hotplug infrastructure to work ...@@ -315,41 +315,26 @@ A: The following are what is required for CPU hotplug infrastructure to work
Q: I need to ensure that a particular cpu is not removed when there is some Q: I need to ensure that a particular cpu is not removed when there is some
work specific to this cpu is in progress. work specific to this cpu is in progress.
A: First switch the current thread context to preferred cpu A: There are two ways. If your code can be run in interrupt context, use
smp_call_function_single(), otherwise use work_on_cpu(). Note that
work_on_cpu() is slow, and can fail due to out of memory:
int my_func_on_cpu(int cpu) int my_func_on_cpu(int cpu)
{ {
cpumask_t saved_mask, new_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE; int err;
int curr_cpu, err = 0; get_online_cpus();
if (!cpu_online(cpu))
saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed; err = -EINVAL;
cpu_set(cpu, new_mask); else
err = set_cpus_allowed(current, new_mask); #if NEEDS_BLOCKING
err = work_on_cpu(cpu, __my_func_on_cpu, NULL);
if (err) #else
return err; smp_call_function_single(cpu, __my_func_on_cpu, &err,
true);
/* #endif
* If we got scheduled out just after the return from put_online_cpus();
* set_cpus_allowed() before running the work, this ensures return err;
* we stay locked. }
*/
curr_cpu = get_cpu();
if (curr_cpu != cpu) {
err = -EAGAIN;
goto ret;
} else {
/*
* Do work : But cant sleep, since get_cpu() disables preempt
*/
}
ret:
put_cpu();
set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask);
return err;
}
Q: How do we determine how many CPUs are available for hotplug. Q: How do we determine how many CPUs are available for hotplug.
A: There is no clear spec defined way from ACPI that can give us that A: There is no clear spec defined way from ACPI that can give us that
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