From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, fweisbec@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/45] percpu_counter: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:39:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C88B76.90806@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130624180636.GB1918@mtj.dyndns.org>
On 06/24/2013 11:36 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:55:35AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> @@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
>>> ret += *pcount;
>>> }
>>> raw_spin_unlock(&fbc->lock);
>>> + put_online_cpus_atomic();
>>
>> I don't think this is necessary. CPU on/offlining is explicitly
>> handled via the hotplug callback which synchronizes through fbc->lock.
>> __percpu_counter_sum() racing with actual on/offlining doesn't affect
>> correctness and adding superflous get_online_cpus_atomic() around it
>> can be misleading.
>
> Ah, okay, so you added a debug feature which triggers warning if
> online mask is accessed without synchronization.
Exactly!
> Yeah, that makes
> sense and while the above is not strictly necessary, it probably is
> better to just add it rather than suppressing the warning in a
> different way.
Yeah, I was beginning to scratch my head as to how to suppress the
warning after I read your explanation as to why the calls to
get/put_online_cpus_atomic() would be superfluous in this case...
But as you said, simply invoking those functions is much simpler ;-)
> Can you please at least add a comment explaining that?
>
Sure, will do. Thanks a lot Tejun!
Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-24 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-23 13:37 [PATCH 00/45] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug, part 1 Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:38 ` [PATCH 01/45] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs to prevent CPU offline from atomic context Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-24 22:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-23 13:38 ` [PATCH 02/45] CPU hotplug: Clarify the usage of different synchronization APIs Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:38 ` [PATCH 03/45] Documentation, CPU hotplug: Recommend usage of get/put_online_cpus_atomic() Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:38 ` [PATCH 04/45] CPU hotplug: Add infrastructure to check lacking hotplug synchronization Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-24 23:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-25 18:49 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:39 ` [PATCH 05/45] CPU hotplug: Protect set_cpu_online() to avoid false-positives Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:39 ` [PATCH 06/45] CPU hotplug: Sprinkle debugging checks to catch locking bugs Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:39 ` [PATCH 07/45] CPU hotplug: Expose the new debug config option Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 15:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-06-23 18:58 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:39 ` [PATCH 08/45] CPU hotplug: Convert preprocessor macros to static inline functions Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:40 ` [PATCH 09/45] smp: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:40 ` [PATCH 10/45] sched/core: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:40 ` [PATCH 11/45] migration: Use raw_spin_lock/unlock since interrupts are already disabled Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:40 ` [PATCH 12/45] sched/fair: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:40 ` [PATCH 13/45] timer: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 14/45] sched/rt: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 15/45] rcu: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 16/45] tick-broadcast: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:41 ` [PATCH 17/45] time/clocksource: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:42 ` [PATCH 18/45] softirq: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:42 ` [PATCH 19/45] irq: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:42 ` [PATCH 20/45] net: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:42 ` [PATCH 21/45] block: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:42 ` [PATCH 22/45] percpu_counter: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-24 17:55 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-24 18:06 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-24 18:09 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat [this message]
2013-06-23 13:43 ` [PATCH 23/45] infiniband: ehca: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:43 ` [PATCH 24/45] [SCSI] fcoe: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:43 ` [PATCH 25/45] staging/octeon: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 18:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-23 18:55 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 19:17 ` Joe Perches
2013-06-24 17:25 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-24 18:17 ` David Daney
2013-06-23 13:43 ` [PATCH 26/45] x86: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:43 ` [PATCH 27/45] perf/x86: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:44 ` [PATCH 28/45] KVM: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:44 ` [PATCH 29/45] kvm/vmx: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:44 ` [PATCH 30/45] x86/xen: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:45 ` [PATCH 31/45] alpha/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 17:50 ` Matt Turner
2013-06-23 18:56 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:45 ` [PATCH 32/45] blackfin/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:45 ` [PATCH 33/45] cris/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-24 6:41 ` Jesper Nilsson
2013-06-23 13:45 ` [PATCH 34/45] hexagon/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:45 ` [PATCH 35/45] ia64: irq, perfmon: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 36/45] ia64: smp, tlb: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 37/45] m32r: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 38/45] MIPS: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:46 ` [PATCH 39/45] mn10300: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:47 ` [PATCH 40/45] powerpc, irq: Use GFP_ATOMIC allocations in atomic context Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 2:08 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-06-25 2:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-25 2:58 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-06-25 3:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-25 19:20 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:47 ` [PATCH 41/45] powerpc: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:47 ` [PATCH 42/45] powerpc: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to avoid false-positive warning Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:47 ` [PATCH 43/45] sh: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:48 ` [PATCH 44/45] sparc: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-23 13:48 ` [PATCH 45/45] tile: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
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