From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch v3 08/36] x86/smpboot: Split up native_cpu_up() into separate phases and document them
Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 19:59:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7mtz8qp.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pm791zev.ffs@tglx>
On Tue, May 09 2023 at 14:07, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, May 09 2023 at 12:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 09:43:39PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> + /*
>>> + * Sync point with wait_cpu_callin(). The AP doesn't wait here
>>> + * but just sets the bit to let the controlling CPU (BSP) know that
>>> + * it's got this far.
>>> + */
>>> smp_callin();
>>>
>>> - /* otherwise gcc will move up smp_processor_id before the cpu_init */
>>> + /* Otherwise gcc will move up smp_processor_id() before cpu_init() */
>>> barrier();
>>
>> Not to the detriment of this patch, but this barrier() and it's comment
>> seem weird vs smp_callin(). That function ends with an atomic bitop (it
>> has to, at the very least it must not be weaker than store-release) but
>> also has an explicit wmb() to order setup vs CPU_STARTING.
>>
>> (arguably that should be a full fence *AND* get a comment)
>>
>> There is no way the smp_processor_id() referred to in this comment can
>> land before cpu_init() even without the barrier().
>
> Right. Let me clean that up.
So I went and tried to figure out where this comes from. It's from
d8f19f2cac70 ("[PATCH] x86-64 merge") in the history tree. One of those
well documented combo patches which change world and some more. The
context back then was:
/*
* Dont put anything before smp_callin(), SMP
* booting is too fragile that we want to limit the
* things done here to the most necessary things.
*/
cpu_init();
smp_callin();
Dprintk("cpu %d: waiting for commence\n", smp_processor_id());
That still does not explain what the barrier is doing. I tried to
harvest mailing list archives, but did not find anything. The back then
list discuss@x86-64.org was never publicly archived... Boris gave me an
tarball, but this 'barrier()' add on was nowhere discussed in public.
As the barrier has no obvious value, I'm adding a patch upfront which
removes it.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-09 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-08 19:43 [patch v3 00/36] cpu/hotplug, x86: Reworked parallel CPU bringup Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 01/36] [patch V2 01/38] x86/smpboot: Cleanup topology_phys_to_logical_pkg()/die() Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 02/36] cpu/hotplug: Mark arch_disable_smp_support() and bringup_nonboot_cpus() __init Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 03/36] x86/smpboot: Avoid pointless delay calibration if TSC is synchronized Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 04/36] x86/smpboot: Rename start_cpu0() to soft_restart_cpu() Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 05/36] x86/topology: Remove CPU0 hotplug option Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 06/36] x86/smpboot: Remove the CPU0 hotplug kludge Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 07/36] x86/smpboot: Restrict soft_restart_cpu() to SEV Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 08/36] x86/smpboot: Split up native_cpu_up() into separate phases and document them Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 10:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 12:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 17:59 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2023-05-09 20:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-10 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 10:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 12:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 18:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 10:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 12:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 09/36] x86/smpboot: Get rid of cpu_init_secondary() Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 10/36] [patch V2 10/38] x86/cpu/cacheinfo: Remove cpu_callout_mask dependency Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 11/36] [patch V2 11/38] x86/smpboot: Move synchronization masks to SMP boot code Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 12/36] [patch V2 12/38] x86/smpboot: Make TSC synchronization function call based Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 13/36] x86/smpboot: Remove cpu_callin_mask Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 10:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 12:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 14/36] [patch V2 14/38] cpu/hotplug: Rework sparse_irq locking in bringup_cpu() Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 11:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 12:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 15/36] x86/smpboot: Remove wait for cpu_online() Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 16/36] x86/xen/smp_pv: Remove wait for CPU online Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 17/36] x86/xen/hvm: Get rid of DEAD_FROZEN handling Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 18/36] [patch V2 18/38] cpu/hotplug: Add CPU state tracking and synchronization Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 11:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 11:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 12:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 19/36] x86/smpboot: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:43 ` [patch v3 20/36] cpu/hotplug: Remove cpu_report_state() and related unused cruft Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 21/36] [patch V2 21/38] ARM: smp: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 22/36] arm64: " Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 23/36] [patch V2 23/38] csky/smp: " Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 24/36] [patch V2 24/38] MIPS: SMP_CPS: " Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 25/36] parisc: " Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 26/36] riscv: " Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 27/36] cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 28/36] cpu/hotplug: Reset task stack state in _cpu_up() Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 29/36] [patch V2 29/38] cpu/hotplug: Provide a split up CPUHP_BRINGUP mechanism Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 30/36] x86/smpboot: Enable split CPU startup Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 31/36] x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-24 20:48 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-26 10:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-27 13:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-29 2:39 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-29 19:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-29 20:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-30 0:54 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-30 9:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-30 10:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-30 11:37 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-30 12:09 ` [patch] x86/smpboot: Disable parallel bootup if cc_vendor != NONE Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-30 12:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-30 16:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-30 16:56 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-05-30 19:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-30 20:03 ` Tom Lendacky
2023-05-30 20:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-30 21:13 ` Tom Lendacky
2023-05-31 7:44 ` [patch] x86/smpboot: Fix the parallel bringup decision Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-31 11:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-31 13:58 ` Tom Lendacky
2023-05-30 17:02 ` [patch] x86/smpboot: Disable parallel bootup if cc_vendor != NONE Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-05-30 17:31 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-05-30 9:26 ` [patch v3 31/36] x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-30 10:46 ` [patch] x86/realmode: Make stack lock work in trampoline_compat() Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-30 11:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-06-08 23:34 ` Yunhong Jiang
2023-06-08 23:57 ` Andrew Cooper
2023-06-09 0:22 ` Yunhong Jiang
2023-06-10 19:50 ` David Laight
2023-06-10 22:51 ` 'Andrew Cooper'
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 32/36] cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 33/36] x86/apic: Save the APIC virtual base address Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 9:20 ` Sergey Shtylyov
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 34/36] x86/smpboot: Implement a bit spinlock to protect the realmode stack Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 13:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 13:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 35/36] x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs Thomas Gleixner
2023-05-09 13:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-08 19:44 ` [patch v3 36/36] x86/smpboot/64: Implement arch_cpuhp_init_parallel_bringup() and enable it Thomas Gleixner
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