On 06/25/2014 03:49 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 03:24:11PM +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> Wait, that was a stupid idea. hotplug_cfd() already invokes irq_work_run >> indirectly via flush_smp_call_function_queue(). So irq_work_cpu_notify() >> doesn't need to invoke it again, AFAIU. So perhaps we can get rid of >> irq_work_cpu_notify() altogether? > > Just so... > > getting up at 6am and sitting in an airport terminal doesn't seem to > agree with me; Haha :-) > any more silly fail here? > A few minor nits below.. > --- > Subject: irq_work: Remove BUG_ON in irq_work_run() > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Jun 25 07:13:07 CEST 2014 > > Because of a collision with 8d056c48e486 ("CPU hotplug, smp: flush any > pending IPI callbacks before CPU offline"), which ends up calling > hotplug_cfd()->flush_smp_call_function_queue()->irq_work_run(), which > is not from IRQ context. > > And since that already calls irq_work_run() from the hotplug path, > remove our entire hotplug handling. > > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-busatzs2gvz4v62258agipuf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --- > kernel/irq_work.c | 48 +++++------------------------------------------- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) > > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/irq_work.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/irq_work.c > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/irq_work.c > @@ -160,20 +160,14 @@ static void irq_work_run_list(struct lli > } > } > > -static void __irq_work_run(void) > -{ > - irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(raised_list)); > - irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(lazy_list)); > -} > - > /* > - * Run the irq_work entries on this cpu. Requires to be ran from hardirq > - * context with local IRQs disabled. > + * hotplug calls this through: > + * hotplug_cfs() -> flush_smp_call_function_queue() s/hotplug_cfs/hotplug_cfd > */ > -void irq_work_run(void) > +static void irq_work_run(void) s/static// > { > - BUG_ON(!in_irq()); > - __irq_work_run(); > + irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(raised_list)); > + irq_work_run_list(&__get_cpu_var(lazy_list)); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(irq_work_run); With those 2 changes, everything looks good to me. Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html