From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: <robert.richter@amd.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: patch "x86: MOVE PCI IO ECS code to x86/pci" breaks CPU hotplug
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:59:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AD82D5.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
>Converting __cpuinit functions called out of init_amd() (and similar others)
>to __init (and making them subject of xxx_initcall() handling isn't valid, as
>they would no longer be called for hot plugged CPUs.
>
>Further, since it's likely that in virtualized environments the MSR write
>would at best be ignored, I'd also recommend using the fault-safe
>accessors here *and* check that the bit actually got set before setting
>PCI_HAS_IO_ECS (one would obviously have to BUG() when hot-plugged
>CPUs fail to set the bit when those available at boot successfully did so).
Even worse - this would even try to access the MSR on non-AMD CPUs
(currently probably prevented just by the fact that only AMD ones use
family values of 0x10 or higher).
Jan
next reply other threads:[~2008-08-21 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-21 12:59 Jan Beulich [this message]
2008-08-21 13:29 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-21 16:25 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-21 16:46 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:23 ` [PATCH] x86: fix: do not run code in amd_bus.c on non-AMD CPUs Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:47 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-22 18:51 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-22 19:13 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:23 ` [PATCH] x86: fix: make PCI ECS for AMD CPUs hotplug capable Robert Richter
2008-08-22 18:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-22 19:07 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 19:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-22 19:20 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-23 15:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-23 15:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-25 9:00 ` [PATCH] x86: fix: make PCI ECS for AMD CPUs hotplug capable (-v2) Robert Richter
2008-08-25 9:12 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-21 12:45 patch "x86: MOVE PCI IO ECS code to x86/pci" breaks CPU hotplug Jan Beulich
2008-08-21 13:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-21 13:16 ` Robert Richter
2008-08-22 6:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-21 13:19 ` Jan Beulich
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