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Documentation: Update CPU hotplug and move it to core-api 

The current CPU hotplug is outdated. During the update to what we
currently have I rewrote it partly and moved to sphinx format.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
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=========================
CPU hotplug in the Kernel
=========================
:Date: December, 2016
:Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Introduction
============
Modern advances in system architectures have introduced advanced error
reporting and correction capabilities in processors. There are couple OEMS that
support NUMA hardware which are hot pluggable as well, where physical node
insertion and removal require support for CPU hotplug.
Such advances require CPUs available to a kernel to be removed either for
provisioning reasons, or for RAS purposes to keep an offending CPU off
system execution path. Hence the need for CPU hotplug support in the
Linux kernel.
A more novel use of CPU-hotplug support is its use today in suspend resume
support for SMP. Dual-core and HT support makes even a laptop run SMP kernels
which didn't support these methods.
Command Line Switches
=====================
``maxcpus=n``
Restrict boot time CPUs to *n*. Say if you have fourV CPUs, using
``maxcpus=2`` will only boot two. You can choose to bring the
other CPUs later online.
``nr_cpus=n``
Restrict the total amount CPUs the kernel will support. If the number
supplied here is lower than the number of physically available CPUs than
those CPUs can not be brought online later.
``additional_cpus=n``
Use this to limit hotpluggable CPUs. This option sets
``cpu_possible_mask = cpu_present_mask + additional_cpus``
This option is limited to the IA64 architecture.
``possible_cpus=n``
This option sets ``possible_cpus`` bits in ``cpu_possible_mask``.
This option is limited to the X86 and S390 architecture.
``cede_offline={"off","on"}``
Use this option to disable/enable putting offlined processors to an extended
``H_CEDE`` state on supported pseries platforms. If nothing is specified,
``cede_offline`` is set to "on".
This option is limited to the PowerPC architecture.
``cpu0_hotplug``
Allow to shutdown CPU0.
This option is limited to the X86 architecture.
CPU maps
========
``cpu_possible_mask``
Bitmap of possible CPUs that can ever be available in the
system. This is used to allocate some boot time memory for per_cpu variables
that aren't designed to grow/shrink as CPUs are made available or removed.
Once set during boot time discovery phase, the map is static, i.e no bits
are added or removed anytime. Trimming it accurately for your system needs
upfront can save some boot time memory.
``cpu_online_mask``
Bitmap of all CPUs currently online. Its set in ``__cpu_up()``
after a CPU is available for kernel scheduling and ready to receive
interrupts from devices. Its cleared when a CPU is brought down using
``__cpu_disable()``, before which all OS services including interrupts are
migrated to another target CPU.
``cpu_present_mask``
Bitmap of CPUs currently present in the system. Not all
of them may be online. When physical hotplug is processed by the relevant
subsystem (e.g ACPI) can change and new bit either be added or removed
from the map depending on the event is hot-add/hot-remove. There are currently
no locking rules as of now. Typical usage is to init topology during boot,
at which time hotplug is disabled.
You really don't need to manipulate any of the system CPU maps. They should
be read-only for most use. When setting up per-cpu resources almost always use
``cpu_possible_mask`` or ``for_each_possible_cpu()`` to iterate. To macro
``for_each_cpu()`` can be used to iterate over a custom CPU mask.
Never use anything other than ``cpumask_t`` to represent bitmap of CPUs.
Using CPU hotplug
=================
The kernel option *CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU* needs to be enabled. It is currently
available on multiple architectures including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and X86. The
configuration is done via the sysfs interface: ::
$ ls -lh /sys/devices/system/cpu
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 cpu0
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 cpu1
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 cpu2
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 cpu3
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 cpu4
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 cpu5
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 cpu6
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 cpu7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 21 16:33 hotplug
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Dec 21 16:33 offline
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Dec 21 16:33 online
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Dec 21 16:33 possible
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K Dec 21 16:33 present
The files *offline*, *online*, *possible*, *present* represent the CPU masks.
Each CPU folder contains an *online* file which controls the logical on (1) and
off (0) state. To logically shutdown CPU4: ::
$ echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/online
smpboot: CPU 4 is now offline
Once the CPU is shutdown, it will be removed from */proc/interrupts*,
*/proc/cpuinfo* and should also not be shown visible by the *top* command. To
bring CPU4 back online: ::
$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/online
smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 4 APIC 0x1
The CPU is usable again. This should work on all CPUs. CPU0 is often special
and excluded from CPU hotplug. On X86 the kernel option
*CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0* has to be enabled in order to be able to
shutdown CPU0. Alternatively the kernel command option *cpu0_hotplug* can be
used. Some known dependencies of CPU0:
* Resume from hibernate/suspend. Hibernate/suspend will fail if CPU0 is offline.
* PIC interrupts. CPU0 can't be removed if a PIC interrupt is detected.
Please let Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> know if you find any dependencies
on CPU0.
The CPU hotplug coordination
============================
The offline case
----------------
Once a CPU has been logically shutdown the teardown callbacks of registered
hotplug states will be invoked, starting with ``CPUHP_ONLINE`` and terminating
at state ``CPUHP_OFFLINE``. This includes:
* If tasks are frozen due to a suspend operation then *cpuhp_tasks_frozen*
will be set to true.
* All processes are migrated away from this outgoing CPU to new CPUs.
The new CPU is chosen from each process' current cpuset, which may be
a subset of all online CPUs.
* All interrupts targeted to this CPU are migrated to a new CPU
* timers are also migrated to a new CPU
* Once all services are migrated, kernel calls an arch specific routine
``__cpu_disable()`` to perform arch specific cleanup.
Using the hotplug API
---------------------
It is possible to receive notifications once a CPU is offline or onlined. This
might be important to certain drivers which need to perform some kind of setup
or clean up functions based on the number of available CPUs: ::
#include <linux/cpuhotplug.h>
ret = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "X/Y:online",
Y_online, Y_prepare_down);
*X* is the subsystem and *Y* the particular driver. The *Y_online* callback
will be invoked during registration on all online CPUs. If an error
occurs during the online callback the *Y_prepare_down* callback will be
invoked on all CPUs on which the online callback was previously invoked.
After registration completed, the *Y_online* callback will be invoked
once a CPU is brought online and *Y_prepare_down* will be invoked when a
CPU is shutdown. All resources which were previously allocated in
*Y_online* should be released in *Y_prepare_down*.
The return value *ret* is negative if an error occurred during the
registration process. Otherwise a positive value is returned which
contains the allocated hotplug for dynamically allocated states
(*CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN*). It will return zero for predefined states.
The callback can be remove by invoking ``cpuhp_remove_state()``. In case of a
dynamically allocated state (*CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN*) use the returned state.
During the removal of a hotplug state the teardown callback will be invoked.
Multiple instances
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If a driver has multiple instances and each instance needs to perform the
callback independently then it is likely that a ''multi-state'' should be used.
First a multi-state state needs to be registered: ::
ret = cpuhp_setup_state_multi(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "X/Y:online,
Y_online, Y_prepare_down);
Y_hp_online = ret;
The ``cpuhp_setup_state_multi()`` behaves similar to ``cpuhp_setup_state()``
except it prepares the callbacks for a multi state and does not invoke
the callbacks. This is a one time setup.
Once a new instance is allocated, you need to register this new instance: ::
ret = cpuhp_state_add_instance(Y_hp_online, &d->node);
This function will add this instance to your previously allocated
*Y_hp_online* state and invoke the previously registered callback
(*Y_online*) on all online CPUs. The *node* element is a ``struct
hlist_node`` member of your per-instance data structure.
On removal of the instance: ::
cpuhp_state_remove_instance(Y_hp_online, &d->node)
should be invoked which will invoke the teardown callback on all online
CPUs.
Manual setup
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Usually it is handy to invoke setup and teardown callbacks on registration or
removal of a state because usually the operation needs to performed once a CPU
goes online (offline) and during initial setup (shutdown) of the driver. However
each registration and removal function is also available with a ``_nocalls``
suffix which does not invoke the provided callbacks if the invocation of the
callbacks is not desired. During the manual setup (or teardown) the functions
``get_online_cpus()`` and ``put_online_cpus()`` should be used to inhibit CPU
hotplug operations.
The ordering of the events
--------------------------
The hotplug states are defined in ``include/linux/cpuhotplug.h``:
* The states *CPUHP_OFFLINE* … *CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE* are invoked before the
CPU is up.
* The states *CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE* … *CPUHP_AP_ONLINE* are invoked
just the after the CPU has been brought up. The interrupts are off and
the scheduler is not yet active on this CPU. Starting with *CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE*
the callbacks are invoked on the target CPU.
* The states between *CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN* and *CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN_END* are
reserved for the dynamic allocation.
* The states are invoked in the reverse order on CPU shutdown starting with
*CPUHP_ONLINE* and stopping at *CPUHP_OFFLINE*. Here the callbacks are
invoked on the CPU that will be shutdown until *CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE*.
A dynamically allocated state via *CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN* is often enough.
However if an earlier invocation during the bring up or shutdown is required
then an explicit state should be acquired. An explicit state might also be
required if the hotplug event requires specific ordering in respect to
another hotplug event.
Testing of hotplug states
=========================
One way to verify whether a custom state is working as expected or not is to
shutdown a CPU and then put it online again. It is also possible to put the CPU
to certain state (for instance *CPUHP_AP_ONLINE*) and then go back to
*CPUHP_ONLINE*. This would simulate an error one state after *CPUHP_AP_ONLINE*
which would lead to rollback to the online state.
All registered states are enumerated in ``/sys/devices/system/cpu/hotplug/states``: ::
$ tail /sys/devices/system/cpu/hotplug/states
138: mm/vmscan:online
139: mm/vmstat:online
140: lib/percpu_cnt:online
141: acpi/cpu-drv:online
142: base/cacheinfo:online
143: virtio/net:online
144: x86/mce:online
145: printk:online
168: sched:active
169: online
To rollback CPU4 to ``lib/percpu_cnt:online`` and back online just issue: ::
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/hotplug/state
169
$ echo 140 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/hotplug/target
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/hotplug/state
140
It is important to note that the teardown callbac of state 140 have been
invoked. And now get back online: ::
$ echo 169 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/hotplug/target
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/hotplug/state
169
With trace events enabled, the individual steps are visible, too: ::
# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | | |
bash-394 [001] 22.976: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 140 step: 169 (cpuhp_kick_ap_work)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 22.977: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 140 step: 168 (sched_cpu_deactivate)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 22.990: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 168 step: 168 ret: 0
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 22.991: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 140 step: 144 (mce_cpu_pre_down)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 22.992: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 144 step: 144 ret: 0
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 22.993: cpuhp_multi_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 140 step: 143 (virtnet_cpu_down_prep)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 22.994: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 143 step: 143 ret: 0
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 22.995: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 140 step: 142 (cacheinfo_cpu_pre_down)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 22.996: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 142 step: 142 ret: 0
bash-394 [001] 22.997: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 140 step: 169 ret: 0
bash-394 [005] 95.540: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 169 step: 140 (cpuhp_kick_ap_work)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.541: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 169 step: 141 (acpi_soft_cpu_online)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.542: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 141 step: 141 ret: 0
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.543: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 169 step: 142 (cacheinfo_cpu_online)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.544: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 142 step: 142 ret: 0
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.545: cpuhp_multi_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 169 step: 143 (virtnet_cpu_online)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.546: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 143 step: 143 ret: 0
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.547: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 169 step: 144 (mce_cpu_online)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.548: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 144 step: 144 ret: 0
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.549: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 169 step: 145 (console_cpu_notify)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.550: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 145 step: 145 ret: 0
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.551: cpuhp_enter: cpu: 0004 target: 169 step: 168 (sched_cpu_activate)
cpuhp/4-31 [004] 95.552: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 168 step: 168 ret: 0
bash-394 [005] 95.553: cpuhp_exit: cpu: 0004 state: 169 step: 140 ret: 0
As it an be seen, CPU4 went down until timestamp 22.996 and then back up until
95.552. All invoked callbacks including their return codes are visible in the
trace.
Architecture's requirements
===========================
The following functions and configurations are required:
``CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU``
This entry needs to be enabled in Kconfig
``__cpu_up()``
Arch interface to bring up a CPU
``__cpu_disable()``
Arch interface to shutdown a CPU, no more interrupts can be handled by the
kernel after the routine returns. This includes the shutdown of the timer.
``__cpu_die()``
This actually supposed to ensure death of the CPU. Actually look at some
example code in other arch that implement CPU hotplug. The processor is taken
down from the ``idle()`` loop for that specific architecture. ``__cpu_die()``
typically waits for some per_cpu state to be set, to ensure the processor dead
routine is called to be sure positively.
User Space Notification
=======================
After CPU successfully onlined or offline udev events are sent. A udev rule like: ::
SUBSYSTEM=="cpu", DRIVERS=="processor", DEVPATH=="/devices/system/cpu/*", RUN+="the_hotplug_receiver.sh"
will receive all events. A script like: ::
#!/bin/sh
if [ "${ACTION}" = "offline" ]
then
echo "CPU ${DEVPATH##*/} offline"
elif [ "${ACTION}" = "online" ]
then
echo "CPU ${DEVPATH##*/} online"
fi
can process the event further.
Kernel Inline Documentations Reference
======================================
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
Documentation/core-api/index.rst
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assoc_array
atomic_ops
cpu_hotplug
local_ops
workqueue
......
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CPU hotplug Support in Linux(tm) Kernel
Maintainers:
CPU Hotplug Core:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
i386:
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwanem@gmail.com>
ppc64:
Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
ia64/x86_64:
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
s390:
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Authors: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Lots of feedback: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>,
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Introduction
Modern advances in system architectures have introduced advanced error
reporting and correction capabilities in processors. CPU architectures permit
partitioning support, where compute resources of a single CPU could be made
available to virtual machine environments. There are couple OEMS that
support NUMA hardware which are hot pluggable as well, where physical
node insertion and removal require support for CPU hotplug.
Such advances require CPUs available to a kernel to be removed either for
provisioning reasons, or for RAS purposes to keep an offending CPU off
system execution path. Hence the need for CPU hotplug support in the
Linux kernel.
A more novel use of CPU-hotplug support is its use today in suspend
resume support for SMP. Dual-core and HT support makes even
a laptop run SMP kernels which didn't support these methods. SMP support
for suspend/resume is a work in progress.
General Stuff about CPU Hotplug
--------------------------------
Command Line Switches
---------------------
maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using
maxcpus=2 will only boot 2. You can choose to bring the
other cpus later online, read FAQ's for more info.
additional_cpus=n (*) Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets
cpu_possible_mask = cpu_present_mask + additional_cpus
cede_offline={"off","on"} Use this option to disable/enable putting offlined
processors to an extended H_CEDE state on
supported pseries platforms.
If nothing is specified,
cede_offline is set to "on".
(*) Option valid only for following architectures
- ia64
ia64 uses the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT to
determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation
should only rely on this to count the # of cpus, but *MUST* not rely
on the apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event
BIOS doesn't mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could
use this parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the
cpu_possible_mask.
possible_cpus=n [s390,x86_64] use this to set hotpluggable cpus.
This option sets possible_cpus bits in
cpu_possible_mask. Thus keeping the numbers of bits set
constant even if the machine gets rebooted.
CPU maps and such
-----------------
[More on cpumaps and primitive to manipulate, please check
include/linux/cpumask.h that has more descriptive text.]
cpu_possible_mask: Bitmap of possible CPUs that can ever be available in the
system. This is used to allocate some boot time memory for per_cpu variables
that aren't designed to grow/shrink as CPUs are made available or removed.
Once set during boot time discovery phase, the map is static, i.e no bits
are added or removed anytime. Trimming it accurately for your system needs
upfront can save some boot time memory. See below for how we use heuristics
in x86_64 case to keep this under check.
cpu_online_mask: Bitmap of all CPUs currently online. It's set in __cpu_up()
after a CPU is available for kernel scheduling and ready to receive
interrupts from devices. It's cleared when a CPU is brought down using
__cpu_disable(), before which all OS services including interrupts are
migrated to another target CPU.
cpu_present_mask: Bitmap of CPUs currently present in the system. Not all
of them may be online. When physical hotplug is processed by the relevant
subsystem (e.g ACPI) can change and new bit either be added or removed
from the map depending on the event is hot-add/hot-remove. There are currently
no locking rules as of now. Typical usage is to init topology during boot,
at which time hotplug is disabled.
You really dont need to manipulate any of the system cpu maps. They should
be read-only for most use. When setting up per-cpu resources almost always use
cpu_possible_mask/for_each_possible_cpu() to iterate.
Never use anything other than cpumask_t to represent bitmap of CPUs.
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
for_each_possible_cpu - Iterate over cpu_possible_mask
for_each_online_cpu - Iterate over cpu_online_mask
for_each_present_cpu - Iterate over cpu_present_mask
for_each_cpu(x,mask) - Iterate over some random collection of cpu mask.
#include <linux/cpu.h>
get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus():
The above calls are used to inhibit cpu hotplug operations. While the
cpu_hotplug.refcount is non zero, the cpu_online_mask will not change.
If you merely need to avoid cpus going away, you could also use
preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() for those sections.
Just remember the critical section cannot call any
function that can sleep or schedule this process away. The preempt_disable()
will work as long as stop_machine_run() is used to take a cpu down.
CPU Hotplug - Frequently Asked Questions.
Q: How to enable my kernel to support CPU hotplug?
A: When doing make defconfig, Enable CPU hotplug support
"Processor type and Features" -> Support for Hotpluggable CPUs
Make sure that you have CONFIG_SMP turned on as well.
You would need to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU for SMP suspend/resume support
as well.
Q: What architectures support CPU hotplug?
A: As of 2.6.14, the following architectures support CPU hotplug.
i386 (Intel), ppc, ppc64, parisc, s390, ia64 and x86_64
Q: How to test if hotplug is supported on the newly built kernel?
A: You should now notice an entry in sysfs.
Check if sysfs is mounted, using the "mount" command. You should notice
an entry as shown below in the output.
....
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
....
If this is not mounted, do the following.
#mkdir /sys
#mount -t sysfs sys /sys
Now you should see entries for all present cpu, the following is an example
in a 8-way system.
#pwd
#/sys/devices/system/cpu
#ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 19 07:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu3
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu5
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu6
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:48 cpu7
Under each directory you would find an "online" file which is the control
file to logically online/offline a processor.
Q: Does hot-add/hot-remove refer to physical add/remove of cpus?
A: The usage of hot-add/remove may not be very consistently used in the code.
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU enables logical online/offline capability in the kernel.
To support physical addition/removal, one would need some BIOS hooks and
the platform should have something like an attention button in PCI hotplug.
CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU enables ACPI support for physical add/remove of CPUs.
Q: How do I logically offline a CPU?
A: Do the following.
#echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online
Once the logical offline is successful, check
#cat /proc/interrupts
You should now not see the CPU that you removed. Also online file will report
the state as 0 when a CPU is offline and 1 when it's online.
#To display the current cpu state.
#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online
Q: Why can't I remove CPU0 on some systems?
A: Some architectures may have some special dependency on a certain CPU.
For e.g in IA64 platforms we have ability to send platform interrupts to the
OS. a.k.a Corrected Platform Error Interrupts (CPEI). In current ACPI
specifications, we didn't have a way to change the target CPU. Hence if the
current ACPI version doesn't support such re-direction, we disable that CPU
by making it not-removable.
In such cases you will also notice that the online file is missing under cpu0.
Q: Is CPU0 removable on X86?
A: Yes. If kernel is compiled with CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0=y, CPU0 is
removable by default. Otherwise, CPU0 is also removable by kernel option
cpu0_hotplug.
But some features depend on CPU0. Two known dependencies are:
1. Resume from hibernate/suspend depends on CPU0. Hibernate/suspend will fail if
CPU0 is offline and you need to online CPU0 before hibernate/suspend can
continue.
2. PIC interrupts also depend on CPU0. CPU0 can't be removed if a PIC interrupt
is detected.
It's said poweroff/reboot may depend on CPU0 on some machines although I haven't
seen any poweroff/reboot failure so far after CPU0 is offline on a few tested
machines.
Please let me know if you know or see any other dependencies of CPU0.
If the dependencies are under your control, you can turn on CPU0 hotplug feature
either by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 or by kernel parameter cpu0_hotplug.
--Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Q: How do I find out if a particular CPU is not removable?
A: Depending on the implementation, some architectures may show this by the
absence of the "online" file. This is done if it can be determined ahead of
time that this CPU cannot be removed.
In some situations, this can be a run time check, i.e if you try to remove the
last CPU, this will not be permitted. You can find such failures by
investigating the return value of the "echo" command.
Q: What happens when a CPU is being logically offlined?
A: The following happen, listed in no particular order :-)
- A notification is sent to in-kernel registered modules by sending an event
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE or CPU_DOWN_PREPARE_FROZEN, depending on whether or not the
CPU is being offlined while tasks are frozen due to a suspend operation in
progress
- All processes are migrated away from this outgoing CPU to new CPUs.
The new CPU is chosen from each process' current cpuset, which may be
a subset of all online CPUs.
- All interrupts targeted to this CPU are migrated to a new CPU
- timers/bottom half/task lets are also migrated to a new CPU
- Once all services are migrated, kernel calls an arch specific routine
__cpu_disable() to perform arch specific cleanup.
- Once this is successful, an event for successful cleanup is sent by an event
CPU_DEAD (or CPU_DEAD_FROZEN if tasks are frozen due to a suspend while the
CPU is being offlined).
"It is expected that each service cleans up when the CPU_DOWN_PREPARE
notifier is called, when CPU_DEAD is called it's expected there is nothing
running on behalf of this CPU that was offlined"
Q: If I have some kernel code that needs to be aware of CPU arrival and
departure, how to i arrange for proper notification?
A: This is what you would need in your kernel code to receive notifications.
#include <linux/cpu.h>
static int foobar_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
{
unsigned int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu;
switch (action) {
case CPU_ONLINE:
case CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN:
foobar_online_action(cpu);
break;
case CPU_DEAD:
case CPU_DEAD_FROZEN:
foobar_dead_action(cpu);
break;
}
return NOTIFY_OK;
}
static struct notifier_block foobar_cpu_notifier =
{
.notifier_call = foobar_cpu_callback,
};
You need to call register_cpu_notifier() from your init function.
Init functions could be of two types:
1. early init (init function called when only the boot processor is online).
2. late init (init function called _after_ all the CPUs are online).
For the first case, you should add the following to your init function
register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
For the second case, you should add the following to your init function
register_hotcpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
You can fail PREPARE notifiers if something doesn't work to prepare resources.
This will stop the activity and send a following CANCELED event back.
CPU_DEAD should not be failed, its just a goodness indication, but bad
things will happen if a notifier in path sent a BAD notify code.
Q: I don't see my action being called for all CPUs already up and running?
A: Yes, CPU notifiers are called only when new CPUs are on-lined or offlined.
If you need to perform some action for each CPU already in the system, then
do this:
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier, CPU_UP_PREPARE, i);
foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE, i);
}
However, if you want to register a hotplug callback, as well as perform
some initialization for CPUs that are already online, then do this:
Version 1: (Correct)
---------
cpu_notifier_register_begin();
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier,
CPU_UP_PREPARE, i);
foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier,
CPU_ONLINE, i);
}
/* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */
__register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
cpu_notifier_register_done();
Note that the following code is *NOT* the right way to achieve this,
because it is prone to an ABBA deadlock between the cpu_add_remove_lock
and the cpu_hotplug.lock.
Version 2: (Wrong!)
---------
get_online_cpus();
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier,
CPU_UP_PREPARE, i);
foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier,
CPU_ONLINE, i);
}
register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
put_online_cpus();
So always use the first version shown above when you want to register
callbacks as well as initialize the already online CPUs.
Q: If I would like to develop CPU hotplug support for a new architecture,
what do I need at a minimum?
A: The following are what is required for CPU hotplug infrastructure to work
correctly.
- Make sure you have an entry in Kconfig to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
- __cpu_up() - Arch interface to bring up a CPU
- __cpu_disable() - Arch interface to shutdown a CPU, no more interrupts
can be handled by the kernel after the routine
returns. Including local APIC timers etc are
shutdown.
- __cpu_die() - This actually supposed to ensure death of the CPU.
Actually look at some example code in other arch
that implement CPU hotplug. The processor is taken
down from the idle() loop for that specific
architecture. __cpu_die() typically waits for some
per_cpu state to be set, to ensure the processor
dead routine is called to be sure positively.
Q: I need to ensure that a particular CPU is not removed when there is some
work specific to this CPU in progress.
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 err;
get_online_cpus();
if (!cpu_online(cpu))
err = -EINVAL;
else
#if NEEDS_BLOCKING
err = work_on_cpu(cpu, __my_func_on_cpu, NULL);
#else
smp_call_function_single(cpu, __my_func_on_cpu, &err,
true);
#endif
put_online_cpus();
return err;
}
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
information today. Based on some input from Natalie of Unisys,
that the ACPI MADT (Multiple APIC Description Tables) marks those possible
CPUs in a system with disabled status.
Andi implemented some simple heuristics that count the number of disabled
CPUs in MADT as hotpluggable CPUS. In the case there are no disabled CPUS
we assume 1/2 the number of CPUs currently present can be hotplugged.
Caveat: ACPI MADT can only provide 256 entries in systems with only ACPI 2.0c
or earlier ACPI version supported, because the apicid field in MADT is only
8 bits. From ACPI 3.0, this limitation was removed since the apicid field
was extended to 32 bits with x2APIC introduced.
User Space Notification
Hotplug support for devices is common in Linux today. Its being used today to
support automatic configuration of network, usb and pci devices. A hotplug
event can be used to invoke an agent script to perform the configuration task.
You can add /etc/hotplug/cpu.agent to handle hotplug notification user space
scripts.
#!/bin/bash
# $Id: cpu.agent
# Kernel hotplug params include:
#ACTION=%s [online or offline]
#DEVPATH=%s
#
cd /etc/hotplug
. ./hotplug.functions
case $ACTION in
online)
echo `date` ":cpu.agent" add cpu >> /tmp/hotplug.txt
;;
offline)
echo `date` ":cpu.agent" remove cpu >>/tmp/hotplug.txt
;;
*)
debug_mesg CPU $ACTION event not supported
exit 1
;;
esac
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