From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94378C33CB1 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7437F22522 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730107AbgAOLlX (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2020 06:41:23 -0500 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:35530 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729900AbgAOLlW (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2020 06:41:22 -0500 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E1931B; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 03:41:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bogus (e103737-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.197.49]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2ABE23F6C4; Wed, 15 Jan 2020 03:41:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:41:12 +0000 From: Sudeep Holla To: Hsin-Yi Wang Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Josh Poimboeuf , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Kosina , Pavankumar Kondeti , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Aaro Koskinen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Will Deacon , Fenghua Yu , James Morse , Mark Rutland , Heiko Carstens , Guenter Roeck , Stephen Boyd , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Sudeep Holla , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] reboot: support offline CPUs before reboot Message-ID: <20200115114112.GA3663@bogus> References: <20200115063410.131692-1-hsinyi@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200115063410.131692-1-hsinyi@chromium.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Sender: linux-mips-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 02:34:10PM +0800, Hsin-Yi Wang wrote: > Currently system reboots uses architecture specific codes (smp_send_stop) > to offline non reboot CPUs. Most architecture's implementation is looping > through all non reboot online CPUs and call ipi function to each of them. Some > architecture like arm64, arm, and x86... would set offline masks to cpu without > really offline them. This causes some race condition and kernel warning comes > out sometimes when system reboots. > > This patch adds a config ARCH_OFFLINE_CPUS_ON_REBOOT, which would offline cpus in > migrate_to_reboot_cpu(). If non reboot cpus are all offlined here, the loop for > checking online cpus would be an empty loop. If architecture don't enable this > config, or some cpus somehow fails to offline, it would fallback to ipi > function. > What's the timing impact on systems with large number of CPUs(say 256 or more) ? I remember we added some change to reduce the wait times for offlining CPUs in system suspend path on arm64, still not negligible. -- Regards, Sudeep