[PATCH] x86_64: Dont use broadcast shortcut to make it cpu hotplug safe.

Broadcast IPI's provide un-expected behaviour for cpu hotplug.  CPU's in
offline state also end up receiving the IPI.  Once the cpus become online they
receive these stale IPI's which are bad and introduce unexpected behaviour.

This is easily avoided by not sending a broadcast and addressing just the
CPU's in online map.  Doing prelim cycle counts it appears there is no big
overhead and numbers seem around 0x3000-0x3900 on an average on x86 and x86_64
systems with CPUS running 3G, both for broadcast and mask version of the
API's.

The shortcuts are useful only for flat mode (where the perf shows no
degradation), and in cluster mode, its unicast anyway.  Its simpler to just
not use broadcast anymore.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.c
index b4cbbad04226..00f3fa6df714 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/genapic_flat.c
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
  * Hacked for x86-64 by James Cleverdon from i386 architecture code by
  * Martin Bligh, Andi Kleen, James Bottomley, John Stultz, and
  * James Cleverdon.
+ * Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
+ *      Removed IPI broadcast shortcut to support CPU hotplug
  */
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/threads.h>
@@ -45,22 +47,6 @@ static void flat_init_apic_ldr(void)
         apic_write_around(APIC_LDR, val);
 }
 
-static void flat_send_IPI_allbutself(int vector)
-{
-        /*
-         * if there are no other CPUs in the system then
-         * we get an APIC send error if we try to broadcast.
-         * thus we have to avoid sending IPIs in this case.
-         */
-        if (num_online_cpus() > 1)
-                __send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_ALLBUT, vector, APIC_DEST_LOGICAL);
-}
-
-static void flat_send_IPI_all(int vector)
-{
-        __send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_ALLINC, vector, APIC_DEST_LOGICAL);
-}
-
 static void flat_send_IPI_mask(cpumask_t cpumask, int vector)
 {
         unsigned long mask = cpus_addr(cpumask)[0];
@@ -93,6 +79,30 @@ static void flat_send_IPI_mask(cpumask_t cpumask, int vector)
         local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
+static void flat_send_IPI_allbutself(int vector)
+{
+        cpumask_t mask;
+        /*
+         * if there are no other CPUs in the system then
+         * we get an APIC send error if we try to broadcast.
+         * thus we have to avoid sending IPIs in this case.
+         */
+        int this_cpu = get_cpu();
+
+        mask = cpu_online_map;
+        cpu_clear(this_cpu, mask);
+
+        if (cpus_weight(mask) >= 1)
+                flat_send_IPI_mask(mask, vector);
+
+        put_cpu();
+}
+
+static void flat_send_IPI_all(int vector)
+{
+        flat_send_IPI_mask(cpu_online_map, vector);
+}
+
 static int flat_apic_id_registered(void)
 {
         return physid_isset(GET_APIC_ID(apic_read(APIC_ID)), phys_cpu_present_map);