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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] irq_work: Implement remote queueing
On 06/25/2014 03:49 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 03:24:11PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
>> Wait, that was a stupid idea. hotplug_cfd() already invokes irq_work_run
>> indirectly via flush_smp_call_function_queue(). So irq_work_cpu_notify()
>> doesn't need to invoke it again, AFAIU. So perhaps we can get rid of
>> irq_work_cpu_notify() altogether?
>
> Just so...
>
> getting up at 6am and sitting in an airport terminal doesn't seem to
> agree with me;

Haha :-)

> any more silly fail here?
>

A few minor nits below..

> ---
> Subject: irq_work: Remove BUG_ON in irq_work_run()
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Date: Wed Jun 25 07:13:07 CEST 2014
>
> Because of a collision with 8d056c48e486 ("CPU hotplug, smp: flush any
> pending IPI callbacks before CPU offline"), which ends up calling
> hotplug_cfd()->flush_smp_call_function_queue()->irq_work_run(), which
> is not from IRQ context.
>
> And since that already calls irq_work_run() from the hotplug path,
> remove our entire hotplug handling.
>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-busatzs2gvz4v62258agipuf@git.kernel.org
> ---
> kernel/irq_work.c | 48 +++++-------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/irq_work.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/irq_work.c
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/irq_work.c
> @@ -160,20 +160,14 @@ static void irq_work_run_list(struct lli
> }
> }
>
> -static void __irq_work_run(void)
> -{
> - irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(raised_list));
> - irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(lazy_list));
> -}
> -
> /*
> - * Run the irq_work entries on this cpu. Requires to be ran from hardirq
> - * context with local IRQs disabled.
> + * hotplug calls this through:
> + * hotplug_cfs() -> flush_smp_call_function_queue()

s/hotplug_cfs/hotplug_cfd

> */
> -void irq_work_run(void)
> +static void irq_work_run(void)

s/static//

> {
> - BUG_ON(!in_irq());
> - __irq_work_run();
> + irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(raised_list));
> + irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(lazy_list));
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_work_run);

With those 2 changes, everything looks good to me.

Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat





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