[PATCH v2 2/3] powerpc: use NMI IPI for smp_send_stop

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 18:43:07 AEDT 2017


On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 07:15:30 +0800
kbuild test robot <lkp at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Nicholas,
> 
> [auto build test ERROR on powerpc/next]
> [also build test ERROR on v4.14-rc6 next-20171018]
> [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]
> 
> url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Nicholas-Piggin/avoid-secondary-hold-spinloop-when-possible/20171023-173012
> base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git next
> config: powerpc-iss476-smp_defconfig (attached as .config)
> compiler: powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 6.1.1-9) 6.1.1 20160705
> reproduce:
>         wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
>         chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>         make.cross ARCH=powerpc 
> 
> All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
> 
>    arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.o: In function `smp_send_stop':
> >> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:563: undefined reference to `smp_send_nmi_ipi'  
> 
> vim +563 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> 
>    560	
>    561	void smp_send_stop(void)
>    562	{
>  > 563		smp_send_nmi_ipi(NMI_IPI_ALL_OTHERS, stop_this_cpu, 1000000);  
>    564	}
>    565	

Good catch, 0day. Thanks.

Rather than have all architectures select NMI_IPI just for this, I
think I'll make it depend on whether NMI_IPI was selected at all.
Otherwise just keep using the normal smp_call_function().

Thanks,
Nick


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