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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-12-17 12:43:29 -0500
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-12-16 20:13:29 -0500
commit4251417484a1775ba5cbfe38c67e6d5af9615de4 (patch)
tree9a4c6ba5406fad17b8c2715b3e1f9b68d56a81ad /Documentation
parent62ac12795095dc959649c66ace78708e7ac52477 (diff)
cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt49
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
index 4d4a644b505e..a99d7031cdf9 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -315,41 +315,26 @@ A: The following are what is required for CPU hotplug infrastructure to work
315 315
316Q: I need to ensure that a particular cpu is not removed when there is some 316Q: I need to ensure that a particular cpu is not removed when there is some
317 work specific to this cpu is in progress. 317 work specific to this cpu is in progress.
318A: First switch the current thread context to preferred cpu 318A: There are two ways. If your code can be run in interrupt context, use
319 smp_call_function_single(), otherwise use work_on_cpu(). Note that
320 work_on_cpu() is slow, and can fail due to out of memory:
319 321
320 int my_func_on_cpu(int cpu) 322 int my_func_on_cpu(int cpu)
321 { 323 {
322 cpumask_t saved_mask, new_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE; 324 int err;
323 int curr_cpu, err = 0; 325 get_online_cpus();
324 326 if (!cpu_online(cpu))
325 saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed; 327 err = -EINVAL;
326 cpu_set(cpu, new_mask); 328 else
327 err = set_cpus_allowed(current, new_mask); 329#if NEEDS_BLOCKING
328 330 err = work_on_cpu(cpu, __my_func_on_cpu, NULL);
329 if (err) 331#else
330 return err; 332 smp_call_function_single(cpu, __my_func_on_cpu, &err,
331 333 true);
332 /* 334#endif
333 * If we got scheduled out just after the return from 335 put_online_cpus();
334 * set_cpus_allowed() before running the work, this ensures 336 return err;
335 * we stay locked. 337 }
336 */
337 curr_cpu = get_cpu();
338
339 if (curr_cpu != cpu) {
340 err = -EAGAIN;
341 goto ret;
342 } else {
343 /*
344 * Do work : But cant sleep, since get_cpu() disables preempt
345 */
346 }
347 ret:
348 put_cpu();
349 set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask);
350 return err;
351 }
352
353 338
354Q: How do we determine how many CPUs are available for hotplug. 339Q: How do we determine how many CPUs are available for hotplug.
355A: There is no clear spec defined way from ACPI that can give us that 340A: There is no clear spec defined way from ACPI that can give us that