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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/20] x86: Use common outgoing-CPU-notification code
- To: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>, <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 15:45:21 +0000
- Cc: tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx, peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx, dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, x86@xxxxxxxxxx, oleg@xxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx, josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx, edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx, mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx, dipankar@xxxxxxxxxx, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mingo@xxxxxxxxxx
- Delivery-date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:48:47 +0000
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>
On 04/03/15 14:55, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
> In the meantime, it turned out that HVM guests are broken by this patch
> (with our without changes that we've been discussing), because HVM CPUs
> die with
>
> static void xen_hvm_cpu_die(unsigned int cpu)
> {
> xen_cpu_die(cpu);
> native_cpu_die(cpu);
> }
>
> Which means that cpu_wait_death() is called twice, and second call moves
> the CPU to CPU_BROKEN.
>
> The simple solution is to stop calling native_cpu_die() above but I'd
> like to use common code in native_cpu_die(). I'll see if I can carve it
> out without too much damage to x86.
If not really been following this thread but...
Would it be preferable to refactor xen_cpu_die() instead to factor out
its the cpu_wait_death() call?
David
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