[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Disable CPU hotplug across migrations

Nathan Fontenot nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Sep 18 05:14:02 AEST 2018


When performing partition migrations all present CPUs must be online
as all present CPUs must make the H_JOIN call as part of the migration
process. Once all present CPUs make the H_JOIN call, one CPU is returned
to make the rtas call to perform the migration to the destination system.

During testing of migration and changing the SMT state we have found
instances where CPUs are offlined, as part of the SMT state change,
before they make the H_JOIN call. This results in a hung system where
every CPU is either in H_JOIN or offline.

To prevent this this patch disables CPU hotplug during the migration
process.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 8afd146bc9c7..2c7ed31c736e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ int rtas_ibm_suspend_me(u64 handle)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	cpu_hotplug_disable();
 	stop_topology_update();
 
 	/* Call function on all CPUs.  One of us will make the
@@ -995,6 +996,7 @@ int rtas_ibm_suspend_me(u64 handle)
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Error doing global join\n");
 
 	start_topology_update();
+	cpu_hotplug_enable();
 
 	/* Take down CPUs not online prior to suspend */
 	cpuret = rtas_offline_cpus_mask(offline_mask);



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