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authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-11-03 00:59:25 +0100
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2011-11-04 22:28:09 +0100
commit79cfbdfa87e84992d509e6c1648a18e1d7e68c20 (patch)
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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')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cpu.c74
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 */
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