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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/6] xen/sched: call cpu_disable_scheduler() via cpu notifier


  • To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:06:47 +0100
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  • Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@xxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:06:56 +0000
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On 27/03/2019 17:58, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 27.03.19 at 17:45, <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 27/03/2019 17:22, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> Also while indeed (as the description says) there's no need to
>>> run the function on the CPU itself, it's not obvious to me that
>>> it's safe to run it outside of stop_machine() context. Or to be
>>> more precise, it's not clear to me that leaving stop_machine()
>>> context with the adjustments not done yet is not going to
>>> lead to problems (due to the gap between leaving that context
>>> and acquiring the RCU lock). Could you clarify this in the
>>> description, please (if it indeed is fine this way)?
>>
>> It is fine, as the chances are zero that any code will run on the cpu
>> just taken down and that cpu is not holding any locks we might need.
> 
> Well, of course nothing's going to run on that CPU anymore.
> But vCPU-s may still have associations with it, so what I'm
> worried about is e.g. something finding v->processor pointing
> at an offline CPU and getting confused. Another, more exotic

v->processor is allowed to have a stale value as long as the vcpu
isn't running.

> (or should I say contrived) scenario might be a soft-online
> request coming very quickly after a prior soft-offline one, with
> this function not having got around to run yet. Or basically
> anything else that accesses the same state the function
> means to update (or use).

The CPU_DEAD notifier chain is activated before calling
cpu_hotplug_done(). I don't see how an online request could make it
in between.


Juergen

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