Re: [PATCH v5] reboot: support offline CPUs before reboot

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 02:34:10PM +0800, Hsin-Yi Wang wrote:
> Currently system reboots uses architecture specific codes (smp_send_stop)
> to offline non reboot CPUs. Most architecture's implementation is looping
> through all non reboot online CPUs and call ipi function to each of them. Some
> architecture like arm64, arm, and x86... would set offline masks to cpu without
> really offline them. This causes some race condition and kernel warning comes
> out sometimes when system reboots.
>
> This patch adds a config ARCH_OFFLINE_CPUS_ON_REBOOT, which would offline cpus in
> migrate_to_reboot_cpu(). If non reboot cpus are all offlined here, the loop for
> checking online cpus would be an empty loop. If architecture don't enable this
> config, or some cpus somehow fails to offline, it would fallback to ipi
> function.
>

What's the timing impact on systems with large number of CPUs(say 256 or
more) ? I remember we added some change to reduce the wait times for
offlining CPUs in system suspend path on arm64, still not negligible.

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Regards,
Sudeep