Subject: Re: [Next] CPU Hotplug test failures on powerpc

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:14:07 +0100

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:08 +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Could you try the below?
> >   
> No luck. Still the same issue. The mask values don't change.

Bugger, that patch did solve a similar problem for a patch I'm working
on.

Can you maybe add a print of the cpu_active_mask() in set_cpu_active()
using WARN() so we can see where it changes the mask, and why it things
its empty?

> > ---
> >  init/main.c |    7 +------
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> > index 4051d75..4be7de2 100644
> > --- a/init/main.c
> > +++ b/init/main.c
> > @@ -369,12 +369,6 @@ static void __init smp_init(void)
> >  {
> >  	unsigned int cpu;
> >  
> > -	/*
> > -	 * Set up the current CPU as possible to migrate to.
> > -	 * The other ones will be done by cpu_up/cpu_down()
> > -	 */
> > -	set_cpu_active(smp_processor_id(), true);
> > -
> >  	/* FIXME: This should be done in userspace --RR */
> >  	for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
> >  		if (num_online_cpus() >= setup_max_cpus)
> > @@ -486,6 +480,7 @@ static void __init boot_cpu_init(void)
> >  	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
> >  	/* Mark the boot cpu "present", "online" etc for SMP and UP case */
> >  	set_cpu_online(cpu, true);
> > +	set_cpu_active(cpu, true);
> >  	set_cpu_present(cpu, true);
> >  	set_cpu_possible(cpu, true);
> >  }
> >
> >
> >   
> 
>