From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 29/45] kvm/vmx: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:23:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CAA514.8050609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CAA116.2060906@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Il 26/06/2013 10:06, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto:
> On 06/26/2013 01:16 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 25/06/2013 22:30, Srivatsa S. Bhat ha scritto:
>>> - cpu = get_cpu();
>>> + cpu = get_online_cpus_atomic();
>>> vmx_vcpu_load(&vmx->vcpu, cpu);
>>> vmx->vcpu.cpu = cpu;
>>> err = vmx_vcpu_setup(vmx);
>>> vmx_vcpu_put(&vmx->vcpu);
>>> - put_cpu();
>>> + put_online_cpus_atomic();
>>
>> The new API has a weird name. Why are you adding new functions instead
>> of just modifying get/put_cpu?
>>
>
> Because the purpose of those two functions are distinctly different
> from each other.
>
> get/put_cpu() is used to disable preemption on the local CPU. (Which
> also disables offlining the local CPU during that critical section).
Ok, then I understood correctly... and I acked the other KVM patch.
However, keeping the code on the local CPU is exactly the point of this
particular use of get_cpu()/put_cpu(). Why does it need to synchronize
with offlining of other CPUs?
Paolo
> What this patchset deals with is synchronizing with offline of *any*
> CPU. Typically, we use get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus() for that
> purpose. But they can't be used in atomic context, because they take
> mutex locks and hence can sleep.
>
> So the code that executes in atomic context and which wants to prevent
> *any* CPU from going offline, used to disable preemption around its
> critical section. Disabling preemption prevents stop_machine(), and
> CPU offline (of *any* CPU) was done via stop_machine(). So disabling
> preemption disabled any CPU from going offline, as a *side-effect*.
>
> And this patchset prepares the ground for getting rid of stop_machine()
> in the CPU offline path. Which means, disabling preemption only prevents
> the *local* CPU from going offline. So if code in atomic context wants
> to prevent any CPU from going offline, we need a new set of APIs, like
> get/put_online_cpus(), but which can be invoked from atomic context.
> That's why I named it as get/put_online_cpus_atomic().
>
> One of the key points here is that we want to preserve get/put_cpu()
> as it is, since its purpose is different - disable preemption and
> offline of the local CPU. There is no reason to change that API, its
> useful as it is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-26 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-25 20:25 [PATCH v2 00/45] CPU hotplug: stop_machine()-free CPU hotplug, part 1 Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:25 ` [PATCH v2 01/45] CPU hotplug: Provide APIs to prevent CPU offline from atomic context Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 02/45] CPU hotplug: Clarify the usage of different synchronization APIs Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 03/45] Documentation, CPU hotplug: Recommend usage of get/put_online_cpus_atomic() Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 04/45] CPU hotplug: Add infrastructure to check lacking hotplug synchronization Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 05/45] CPU hotplug: Protect set_cpu_online() to avoid false-positives Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/45] CPU hotplug: Sprinkle debugging checks to catch locking bugs Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 07/45] CPU hotplug: Expose the new debug config option Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 08/45] CPU hotplug: Convert preprocessor macros to static inline functions Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 09/45] smp: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 10/45] sched/core: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 11/45] migration: Use raw_spin_lock/unlock since interrupts are already disabled Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 12/45] sched/fair: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 13/45] timer: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 14/45] sched/rt: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:27 ` [PATCH v2 15/45] rcu: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 22:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-26 14:09 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 14:29 ` David Laight
2013-06-26 14:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-26 14:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-26 15:21 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-26 15:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-26 17:29 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-26 18:28 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 21:34 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-27 6:53 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 18:22 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-27 8:54 ` David Laight
2013-06-27 10:06 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 14:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-26 18:18 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 14:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-25 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 16/45] tick-broadcast: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 17/45] time/clocksource: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 18/45] softirq: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 19/45] irq: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:29 ` [PATCH v2 20/45] net: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:29 ` [PATCH v2 21/45] block: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:29 ` [PATCH v2 22/45] percpu_counter: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:29 ` [PATCH v2 23/45] infiniband: ehca: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:29 ` [PATCH v2 24/45] [SCSI] fcoe: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 25/45] staging/octeon: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-25 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 26/45] x86: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 27/45] perf/x86: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 28/45] KVM: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 8:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-25 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 29/45] kvm/vmx: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 7:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-26 8:06 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 8:23 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-06-26 8:41 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 8:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-25 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 30/45] x86/xen: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 31/45] alpha/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 32/45] blackfin/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 33/45] cris/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 34/45] hexagon/smp: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 35/45] ia64: irq, perfmon: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 36/45] ia64: smp, tlb: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 37/45] m32r: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:32 ` [PATCH v2 38/45] MIPS: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-26 13:39 ` Ralf Baechle
2013-06-27 7:08 ` Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 39/45] mn10300: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 40/45] powerpc, irq: Use GFP_ATOMIC allocations in atomic context Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 41/45] powerpc: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 42/45] powerpc: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to avoid false-positive warning Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 43/45] sh: Use get/put_online_cpus_atomic() to prevent CPU offline Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:33 ` [PATCH v2 44/45] sparc: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
2013-06-25 20:34 ` [PATCH v2 45/45] tile: " Srivatsa S. Bhat
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