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Date:   Fri, 29 Nov 2019 09:13:45 +0000
From:   Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] torture: Replace cpu_up/down with
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On 11/28/19 13:02, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 05:00:26PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > On 11/28/19 16:56, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > On 11/27/19 13:47, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:27:52AM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > > > The core device API performs extra housekeeping bits that are missing
> > > > > from directly calling cpu_up/down.
> > > > > 
> > > > > See commit a6717c01ddc2 ("powerpc/rtas: use device model APIs and
> > > > > serialization during LPM") for an example description of what might go
> > > > > wrong.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This also prepares to make cpu_up/down a private interface for anything
> > > > > but the cpu subsystem.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
> > > > > CC: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
> > > > > CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > > > > CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> > > > > CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > > > 
> > > > Looks fine from an rcutorture viewpoint, but why not provide an API
> > > > that pulled lock_device_hotplug() and unlock_device_hotplug() into the
> > > > online/offline calls?
> > > 
> > > I *think* the right way to do what you say is by doing lock_device_hotplug()
> > > inside device_{online, offline}() - which affects all drivers not just the CPU.
> 
> Or there could be a CPU-specific wrapper function that did the needed
> locking.  (Whether this is worth it or not of course depends on the
> number of invocations.)

Okay I see what you mean now. driver/base/memory.c have {add,remove}_memory()
that does what you say. I think we can replicate this in driver/base/cpu.c too.

I can certainly do that, better as an improvement on top as I need to audit the
code to make sure the critical sections weren't relying on this lock to protect
something else beside the online/offline operation.

Thanks!

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Qais Yousef