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author | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2019-05-17 12:50:42 +0200 |
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committer | Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> | 2019-06-15 12:25:52 +0200 |
commit | 38f2c691a4b3e89d476f8e8350d1ca299974b89d (patch) | |
tree | 8b4ab76fd8281be6dfcf8d5edc48d5ee522a4710 /kernel/stop_machine.c | |
parent | 7928260539f3a13b5b23a3fa0a7c0e4f5255940b (diff) | |
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s390: improve wait logic of stop_machine
The stop_machine loop to advance the state machine and to wait for all
affected CPUs to check-in calls cpu_relax_yield in a tight loop until
the last missing CPUs acknowledged the state transition.
On a virtual system where not all logical CPUs are backed by real CPUs
all the time it can take a while for all CPUs to check-in. With the
current definition of cpu_relax_yield a diagnose 0x44 is done which
tells the hypervisor to schedule *some* other CPU. That can be any
CPU and not necessarily one of the CPUs that need to run in order to
advance the state machine. This can lead to a pretty bad diagnose 0x44
storm until the last missing CPU finally checked-in.
Replace the undirected cpu_relax_yield based on diagnose 0x44 with a
directed yield. Each CPU in the wait loop will pick up the next CPU
in the cpumask of stop_machine. The diagnose 0x9c is used to tell the
hypervisor to run this next CPU instead of the current one. If there
is only a limited number of real CPUs backing the virtual CPUs we
end up with the real CPUs passed around in a round-robin fashion.
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com]:
Use cpumask_next_wrap as suggested by Peter Zijlstra.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/stop_machine.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/stop_machine.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c index 2b5a6754646f..b8b0c5ff8da9 100644 --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c @@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ static int multi_cpu_stop(void *data) struct multi_stop_data *msdata = data; enum multi_stop_state curstate = MULTI_STOP_NONE; int cpu = smp_processor_id(), err = 0; + const struct cpumask *cpumask; unsigned long flags; bool is_active; @@ -192,15 +193,18 @@ static int multi_cpu_stop(void *data) */ local_save_flags(flags); - if (!msdata->active_cpus) - is_active = cpu == cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask); - else - is_active = cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, msdata->active_cpus); + if (!msdata->active_cpus) { + cpumask = cpu_online_mask; + is_active = cpu == cpumask_first(cpumask); + } else { + cpumask = msdata->active_cpus; + is_active = cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpumask); + } /* Simple state machine */ do { /* Chill out and ensure we re-read multi_stop_state. */ - cpu_relax_yield(); + cpu_relax_yield(cpumask); if (msdata->state != curstate) { curstate = msdata->state; switch (curstate) { |