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author | Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-11-03 00:59:25 +0100 |
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committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> | 2011-11-04 22:28:09 +0100 |
commit | 79cfbdfa87e84992d509e6c1648a18e1d7e68c20 (patch) | |
tree | cc82be9bc890aa0b2b635ceff06db2ed9056460d /kernel/cpu.c | |
parent | ddf6ce45a7b1193f3cf20ad234f35af3b998b8f8 (diff) | |
download | lwn-79cfbdfa87e84992d509e6c1648a18e1d7e68c20.tar.gz lwn-79cfbdfa87e84992d509e6c1648a18e1d7e68c20.zip |
PM / Sleep: Fix race between CPU hotplug and freezer
The CPU hotplug notifications sent out by the _cpu_up() and _cpu_down()
functions depend on the value of the 'tasks_frozen' argument passed to them
(which indicates whether tasks have been frozen or not).
(Examples for such CPU hotplug notifications: CPU_ONLINE, CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN,
CPU_DEAD, CPU_DEAD_FROZEN).
Thus, it is essential that while the callbacks for those notifications are
running, the state of the system with respect to the tasks being frozen or
not remains unchanged, *throughout that duration*. Hence there is a need for
synchronizing the CPU hotplug code with the freezer subsystem.
Since the freezer is involved only in the Suspend/Hibernate call paths, this
patch hooks the CPU hotplug code to the suspend/hibernate notifiers
PM_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE]_PREPARE and PM_POST_[SUSPEND|HIBERNATE] to prevent
the race between CPU hotplug and freezer, thus ensuring that CPU hotplug
notifications will always be run with the state of the system really being
what the notifications indicate, _throughout_ their execution time.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cpu.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/cpu.c | 74 |
1 files changed, 74 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 12b7458f23b1..aa39dd7a3846 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <linux/stop_machine.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/gfp.h> +#include <linux/suspend.h> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP /* Serializes the updates to cpu_online_mask, cpu_present_mask */ @@ -476,6 +477,79 @@ static int alloc_frozen_cpus(void) return 0; } core_initcall(alloc_frozen_cpus); + +/* + * Prevent regular CPU hotplug from racing with the freezer, by disabling CPU + * hotplug when tasks are about to be frozen. Also, don't allow the freezer + * to continue until any currently running CPU hotplug operation gets + * completed. + * To modify the 'cpu_hotplug_disabled' flag, we need to acquire the + * 'cpu_add_remove_lock'. And this same lock is also taken by the regular + * CPU hotplug path and released only after it is complete. Thus, we + * (and hence the freezer) will block here until any currently running CPU + * hotplug operation gets completed. + */ +void cpu_hotplug_disable_before_freeze(void) +{ + cpu_maps_update_begin(); + cpu_hotplug_disabled = 1; + cpu_maps_update_done(); +} + + +/* + * When tasks have been thawed, re-enable regular CPU hotplug (which had been + * disabled while beginning to freeze tasks). + */ +void cpu_hotplug_enable_after_thaw(void) +{ + cpu_maps_update_begin(); + cpu_hotplug_disabled = 0; + cpu_maps_update_done(); +} + +/* + * When callbacks for CPU hotplug notifications are being executed, we must + * ensure that the state of the system with respect to the tasks being frozen + * or not, as reported by the notification, remains unchanged *throughout the + * duration* of the execution of the callbacks. + * Hence we need to prevent the freezer from racing with regular CPU hotplug. + * + * This synchronization is implemented by mutually excluding regular CPU + * hotplug and Suspend/Hibernate call paths by hooking onto the Suspend/ + * Hibernate notifications. + */ +static int +cpu_hotplug_pm_callback(struct notifier_block *nb, + unsigned long action, void *ptr) +{ + switch (action) { + + case PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE: + case PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE: + cpu_hotplug_disable_before_freeze(); + break; + + case PM_POST_SUSPEND: + case PM_POST_HIBERNATION: + cpu_hotplug_enable_after_thaw(); + break; + + default: + return NOTIFY_DONE; + } + + return NOTIFY_OK; +} + + +int cpu_hotplug_pm_sync_init(void) +{ + pm_notifier(cpu_hotplug_pm_callback, 0); + return 0; +} +core_initcall(cpu_hotplug_pm_sync_init); + #endif /* CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP */ /** |