Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752073AbXA2VGR (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:06:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752599AbXA2VGR (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:06:17 -0500 Received: from mail.screens.ru ([213.234.233.54]:57634 "EHLO mail.screens.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752073AbXA2VGQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:06:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:05:50 +0300 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar , Srivatsa Vaddagiri , "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" , Gautham shenoy , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU problems Message-ID: <20070129210550.GA247@tv-sign.ru> References: <20070129011301.GA844@tv-sign.ru> <20070129171923.GA138@tv-sign.ru> <20070129182742.GA158@tv-sign.ru> <20070129194938.GB233@tv-sign.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1707 Lines: 47 On 01/29, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Here is the patch against 2.6.20-rc6-mm2. CPU_DOWN_PREPARE and > CPU_DOWN_FAILED somehow vanished in mm? No, no, there are still in place, so I believe your patch is good. Now we have 2 additional events, CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE/CPU_LOCK_RELEASE, so cpuup_callback() can use them to lock/unlock cache_chain_mutex, but this is not related. > Shutdown cache_reaper when cpu goes down > > Shutdown the cache_reaper in slab.c if the cpu is brought down > and set the cache_reap.func to NULL. Otherwise hotplug shuts > down the reaper for good. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter > > Index: linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm1/mm/slab.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm1.orig/mm/slab.c 2007-01-29 14:18:37.000000000 -0600 > +++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm1/mm/slab.c 2007-01-29 14:21:18.119155877 -0600 > @@ -1271,6 +1271,17 @@ static int __cpuinit cpuup_callback(stru > start_cpu_timer(cpu); > break; > #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > + case CPU_DOWN_PREPARE: > + /* Shutdown cache reaper */ > + cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&per_cpu(reap_work, cpu)); > + per_cpu(reap_work, cpu).work.func = NULL; > + > + mutex_lock(&cache_chain_mutex); > + break; > + case CPU_DOWN_FAILED: > + mutex_unlock(&cache_chain_mutex); > + start_cpu_timer(cpu); > + break; > case CPU_DEAD: > /* > * Even if all the cpus of a node are down, we don't free the - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/