Commit graph android_kernel_sony_sdm845/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
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[S390] Get rid of additional_cpus kernel parameter.
It caused only a lot of confusion. From now on cpu hotplug of up to
NR_CPUS will work by default. If somebody wants to limit that then
the possible_cpus parameter can be used.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Heiko Carstens   authored and   Martin Schwidefsky   commited 2008-01-26 14:11:15 +01:00
48483b3290
cpu-hotplug: replace lock_cpu_hotplug() with get_online_cpus()
Replace all lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug from the kernel and use
get_online_cpus and put_online_cpus instead as it highlights the
refcount semantics in these operations.

The new API guarantees protection against the cpu-hotplug operation, but
it doesn't guarantee serialized access to any of the local data
structures. Hence the changes needs to be reviewed.

In case of pseries_add_processor/pseries_remove_processor, use
cpu_maps_update_begin()/cpu_maps_update_done() as we're modifying the
cpu_present_map there.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Gautham R Shenoy   authored and   Ingo Molnar   commited 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
86ef5c9a8e
hotplug cpu: migrate a task within its cpuset
When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have
been running on that cpu.

Currently, such a task is migrated:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

It is typical of a multithreaded application running on a large NUMA system to
have its tasks confined to a cpuset so as to cluster them near the memory that
they share.  Furthermore, it is typical to explicitly place such a task on a
specific cpu in that cpuset.  And in that case the task's cpus_allowed
includes only a single cpu.

This patch would insert a preference to migrate such a task to some cpu within
its cpuset (and set its cpus_allowed to its entire cpuset).

With this patch, migrate the task to:
 1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
    and among that task's cpus_allowed
 2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset
 3) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed

In order to do this, move_task_off_dead_cpu() must make a call to
cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), a new subset of cpuset_cpus_allowed(), that will
not block.  (name change - per Oleg's suggestion)

Calls are made to cpuset_lock() and cpuset_unlock() in migration_call() to set
the cpuset mutex during the whole migrate_live_tasks() and
migrate_dead_tasks() procedure.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[pj@sgi.com: Fix indentation and spacing]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Cliff Wickman   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2007-10-19 11:53:44 -07:00
470fd64644
Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Rafael J. Wysocki   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
8bb7844286
Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Matt LaPlante   authored and   Adrian Bunk   commited 2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
5d3f083d8f
[PATCH] doc: fixing cpu-hotplug documentation
Fixing cpu-hotplug documentation as follows:

 - moving confusing asterisk on additional_cpus descrition
 - fixing some typos
 - unifying indentation for source code and command line example

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Satoru Takeuchi   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2006-10-20 10:26:43 -07:00
ca926e80dc
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: fix hotplug cpu documentation for proper usage
Update hotplug cpu documentation to clearly state when to use
register_cpu_notifier() and register_hotcpu_notifier.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Chandra Seetharaman   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2006-07-31 13:28:39 -07:00
7c7165c908
[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: documentaion
Replace for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.

Modifies occurences in documentaion.

for_each_cpu in whatisRCU.txt should be for_each_online_cpu ???
(I'm not sure..)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
3c30a75256
[PATCH] cpu hotplug documentation fix
Looks like there was a merge conflict when patches
8f8b1138fc and
255acee706 were applied which wasn't properly
resolved. Fix this and add some additional description.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Heiko Carstens   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2006-02-20 20:00:10 -08:00
6303dbf570
[PATCH] s390: possible_cpus parameter
Introduce possible_cpus command line option.  Hard sets the number of bits set
in cpu_possible_map.  Unlike the additional_cpus parameter this one guarantees
that num_possible_cpus() will stay constant even if the system gets rebooted
and a different number of cpus are present at startup.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Heiko Carstens   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2006-02-17 13:59:27 -08:00
37a3302618
[PATCH] s390: additional_cpus parameter
Introduce additional_cpus command line option.  By default no additional cpu
can be attached to the system anymore.  Only the cpus present at IPL time can
be switched on/off.  If it is desired that additional cpus can be attached to
the system the maximum number of additional cpus needs to be specified with
this option.

This change is necessary in order to limit the waste of per_cpu data
structures.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Heiko Carstens   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2006-02-17 13:59:26 -08:00
255acee706
[IA64] Count disabled cpus as potential hot-pluggable CPUs
Minor updates to earlier patch.
- Added to documentation to add ia64 as well.
- Minor clarification on how to use disabled cpus
- used plain max instead of max_t per Andew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Ashok Raj   authored and   Tony Luck   commited 2006-02-16 14:10:50 -08:00
8f8b1138fc
[PATCH] Updated CPU hotplug documentation
Thanks to Nathan Lynch for the review and comments.  Thanks to Joel Schopp
for the pointer to add user space scipts.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Ashok Raj   authored and   Linus Torvalds   commited 2006-01-08 20:13:55 -08:00
c809406b4f