Hi, On Saturday 06 of October 2012 23:27:08 Jiang Liu wrote: > The patchset is based on "5f3d2f2e1a63679cf1c4a4210f2f1cc2f335bef6" > from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git > And you pull the changeset from git://github.com/jiangliu/linux.git acpihp > > Modern high-end server may support advanced hotplug features for system > devices, including physical processor, memory board, IO extension board > and/or computer node. The ACPI specifications have provided standard > interfaces between firmware and OS to support device hotplug at runtime. > This patch series provide an ACPI based hotplug framework to support system > device hotplug at runtime, which will replace current existing ACPI device > driver based CPU/memory/CONTAINER hotplug mechanism. > > The new ACPI system device hotplug framework has following design goals: > 1) Provide a mechanism to detect hotplug slots by checking ACPI _EJ0 method, > ACPI PRCT (platform RAS capabilities table) and other platform specific > mechanisms. Which of the patches does that? > 2) Unify the way to enumerate ACPI based hotplug slots. All hotplug slots > will be enumerated by the enumeration driver What is the enumeration driver? > , instead of by ACPI device drivers. > 3) Unify the way to handle ACPI hotplug events. All ACPI hotplug events > for system devices will be handled by a generic ACPI hotplug driver, > instead of handled by ACPI device drivers. What are "system devices" > 4) Solve dependencies among hotplug slots. You need first to remove the > memory device before removing a physical processor if a hotpluggable memory > device is connected to a hotpluggable physical processor. > 5) Provide better error handling and recover. > 6) Provide interface to cancel ongoing hotplug operations. It may take a > very long time to remove a memory device, so provide interface to cancel > the operation. This is important especially for memory hot-removal. > 7) Support new RAS features, such as socket/memory migration. > 8) Provide better user interfaces to the hotplug functionalities. > 9) Trigger hotplug events/operations by software. This feature is useful > for hardware fault management and power saving. Well, this may or may not be OK. I'm going to review the patches, but I can't really say when it's going to happen (not really soon for sure). > The new ACPI based hotplug framework is modelled after PCI hotplug > architecture, which uses a hotplug driver to manage hotplug operations > and different device drivers to manage individual devices. > > The new framework contains three main components as follow: > 1) ACPI system device hotplug slot enumerator, which enumerates all ACPI > hotplug slots according to platform specific knowledges. And it also > provides callbacks to control each slot, such as poweron, poweroff, > get_status etc. Currently there are two built-in methods to detect > hotplug slots. > 1.a) Detecting hotplug slot by checking _EJ0 method. > 1.b) Faking hotplug slot. Use "modprobe acpihp_slot fake_slot=0xnn", > 0x1 for CONTAINER, 0x2 for memory device, 0x4 for CPU and 0x8 PCI host > bridge. The fake slot enumerator will treat each assigned ACPI device > as a hotplug slot, so it could be used for testing on hardware platforms > without hardware hotplug capabilities. > 2) ACPI system device hotplug driver, which implements a platform indenpendent > state machine for hotplug slots and also provides sysfs based user > interfaces. > 3) Enhanced ACPI device drivers for CONTAINER, CPU, Memroy and PCI host bridge. > All logic to handle hotplug events has been moved from these ACPI device > driver into the hotplug driver. Now these ACPI device dirvers only take > resposibilities configure/unconfigure corresponding system devices when > hotplug happens. > > Now 1), 2) and part of 2) are ready, we still need to enhance mem_hotplug > and pci_root drivers to support new hotplug framework. > > On my laptop with fake slot enumerator, we got: > root@cat:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/acpihp# ls > CPU00 CPU01 CPU02 CPU03 CPU04 CPU05 CPU06 CPU07 IOX00 > root@cat:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/acpihp# cd CPU07/ > root@cat:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/acpihp/CPU07# ls > capabilities connect device object state subsystem uevent > configure dependency enable power status type > > /* Hot-remove CPU07 */ > root@cat:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/acpihp/CPU07# echo 0 > enable > /* Hot-add CPU07 */ > root@cat:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/acpihp/CPU07# echo 1 > configure > > V2->V3 changes: > 1) Fix minor bugs and refine code > 2) Implement fake slot enumerator for testing > 3) Enhance ACPI container driver to support new hotplug framework > 4) Enhance ACPI processor driver to support new hotplug framework > 5) Resolve dependencies among slots by evaluating _EDL method. > TODO: > 1) Enhance ACPI mem_hotplug driver to support new hotplug framework > 2) Enhance ACPI pci_root driver to support new PCI host bridge hotplug > based on Yinghai's work > > V1->V2 changes: > 1) implement the ACPI hotplug driver > 2) enhance ACPI container driver to support new hotplug framework > TODO: > 1) handle ACPI hotplug events in ACPI hotplug driver > 2) handle dependencies among slots by evaluating ACPI _EDL > 3) enhance ACPI processor, memory and PCI root drivers to support new > hotplug framework > 4) develop an ACPI driver for IOAPIC > 5) thorough tests:) > > Jiang Liu (28): > ACPIHP: introduce a framework for ACPI based system device hotplug > ACPIHP: ACPI system device hotplug slot enumerator driver > ACPIHP: detect ACPI hotplug slots by checking ACPI _EJ0 method > ACPIHP: implement a fake ACPI system device hotplug slot enumerator > ACPI: introduce interfaces to manage ACPI device reference count > ACPIHP: introduce interfaces to scan and walk ACPI devices connecting > to a slot > ACPIHP: use klist to manage ACPI devices connecting to a slot > ACPIHP: add callbacks into acpi_device_ops to support new hotplug > framework > ACPIHP: provide interfaces to associate driver specific data with > slots > ACPIHP: implement utility functions to support system device hotplug > ACPIHP: implement skeleton of ACPI system device hotplug driver > ACPIHP: analyse dependencies among ACPI hotplug slots > ACPIHP: provide interface to cancel inprogress hotplug operations > ACPIHP: configure/unconfigure system devices connecting to a hotplug > slot > ACPIHP: implement the state machine for ACPI hotplug slots > ACPIHP: implement sysfs interfaces for ACPI system device hotplug > ACPIHP: block ACPI device driver unloading when executing hotplug > operations > ACPIHP/container: change ACPI container driver to support new hotplug > framework > ACPIHP/container: move container.c into drivers/acpi/hotplug > ACPI/processor: remove dead code from processor_driver.c > ACPIHP/processor: reorganize ACPI processor driver for new hotplug > framework > ACPIHP/processor: protect accesses to device->driver_data > ACPIHP/processor: enhance processor driver to support new hotplug > framework > CPU: introduce busy flag to temporarily disable CPU online sysfs > interface > ACPIHP/processor: reject online/offline requests when doing processor > hotplug > ACPI/processor: save parsed APIC ID in processor driver data > structure > x86: simplify _acpi_map_lsapic() > ACPI/processor: serialize call to acpi_map/unmap_lsapic > > arch/ia64/include/asm/cpu.h | 2 +- > arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c | 38 +- > arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c | 15 +- > arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h | 2 +- > arch/x86/include/asm/mpspec.h | 2 +- > arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 82 +--- > arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 8 +- > arch/x86/kernel/topology.c | 10 +- > drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 69 ++- > drivers/acpi/Makefile | 3 +- > drivers/acpi/bus.c | 22 +- > drivers/acpi/container.c | 296 ----------- > drivers/acpi/hotplug/Makefile | 21 + > drivers/acpi/hotplug/acpihp.h | 37 ++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/acpihp_drv.h | 107 ++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/cancel.c | 174 +++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/configure.c | 354 ++++++++++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/container.c | 135 +++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/core.c | 842 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/dependency.c | 249 ++++++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/device.c | 208 ++++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/drv_main.c | 351 +++++++++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/slot.c | 421 ++++++++++++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/slot_ej0.c | 153 ++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/slot_fake.c | 177 +++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/state_machine.c | 631 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/acpi/hotplug/sysfs.c | 245 ++++++++++ > drivers/acpi/internal.h | 7 + > drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 26 +- > drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c | 557 ++++++++++----------- > drivers/acpi/scan.c | 17 +- > drivers/base/cpu.c | 22 + > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c | 2 + > drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c | 1 + > drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_glue.c | 9 +- > drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c | 5 +- > drivers/pci/hotplug/sgi_hotplug.c | 6 +- > drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 2 + > drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c | 23 +- > drivers/xen/cpu_hotplug.c | 2 +- > include/acpi/acpi_bus.h | 21 +- > include/acpi/acpi_hotplug.h | 323 ++++++++++++ > include/acpi/container.h | 12 - > include/acpi/processor.h | 3 + > include/linux/acpi.h | 2 +- > include/linux/cpu.h | 2 + > 46 files changed, 4923 insertions(+), 773 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 drivers/acpi/container.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/Makefile > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/acpihp.h > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/acpihp_drv.h > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/cancel.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/configure.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/container.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/core.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/dependency.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/device.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/drv_main.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/slot.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/slot_ej0.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/slot_fake.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/state_machine.c > create mode 100644 drivers/acpi/hotplug/sysfs.c > create mode 100644 include/acpi/acpi_hotplug.h > delete mode 100644 include/acpi/container.h And I seriously think this is too much material for a single patchset. Please consider splitting it into smaller and well-documented series of patches, so that the reviewers can understand things more easily. Thanks, Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
