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From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: balance_irq()'s move() while in machine_restart() hangs system
Date: 09 Apr 2003 17:56:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049928786.5244.108.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

Ingo, if one processor is in move() when another processor calls
machine_restart(), the system will hang.  All otherCPUs will move into
the hlt state, but one in move(), by virtue of smp_num_cpus getting set
to 1 in smp_send_stop() before the 4th CPU has completed its work and
gets out of move().  It will loop in move() in this chunk:

		if (direction == 1) {
			cpu++;
			if (cpu >= smp_num_cpus)
				cpu = 0;
		} else {
			cpu--;
			if (cpu == -1)
				cpu = smp_num_cpus-1;
		}
	} while (!IRQ_ALLOWED(cpu,allowed_mask) ||
			(search_idle && !IDLE_ENOUGH(cpu,now)));

with smp_num_cpus=1 and never manage to exit.

Is it fair to change smp_send_stop() to call
smp_call_function(stop_this_cpu, NULL, 1, 1) instead (make it wait for
the other CPUs to complete before continuing)?

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Architect
Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com


             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-09 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-09 22:56 Matt Domsch [this message]
2003-04-10  8:06 ` Ingo Molnar

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