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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Only include online cpus in cpu_mask_to_apicid_f

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Only include online cpus in cpu_mask_to_apicid_flat
From: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:39:46 +0800
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On Tuesday 31 August 2010 18:46:28 Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 31/08/2010 09:55, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> In fact, setup_ioapic_dest() would be called to reprogram the IOAPIC
> >> redirection
> >> table to follow "irq_cfg->cpu_mask", after SMP initialization work was
> >> done. So I think the better choice is to keep the original value in
> >> irq_cfg-
> >> 
> >>> cpu_mask, and just make sure the value we wrote to the IOAPIC
> >>> redirection
> >> 
> >> table
> >> is valid. Then modifying cpu_mask_to_apicid_flat() seems like a better
> >> idea.
> > 
> > Why would you need to modify only this function, but not the other
> > variants? If a CPU in the passed in mask can be offline, then
> > first_cpu() (as used in the other variants) can return an offline CPU,
> > and you don't want to program such into an RTE.

Yes, here is the patch with modification of other variants.
> 
> Indeed, also all other assignments to irq_cfg->cpu_mask include only online
> CPUs, so the current code is only being consistent in that respect. 

After reading the code, I think it may not that consistent. For example, seems 
set_desc_affinity() and __clear_irq_vector()(as well as many other functions) 
won't 
assume cfg->cpu_mask contained cpus are all online. 

> And in
> the general case (even if not specifically for IRQ0) that is important
> because IDT vectors are not allocated on offline CPUs, and so we could
> otherwise end up with CPUs coming online and finding they are in multiple
> irq_cfg's with the same vector!

I think this still apply, because we still don't allocate vectors for offline 
CPUs. 
When we allocate vectors, we would check cpu_online_map.

> Also the PIT is usually disabled after boot
> on Xen and so it being restricted to only CPU0 would really not matter. I
> think we should leave the code as is.

But HPET would still being used, which replaced PIT and using IRQ0.

--
regards
Yang, Sheng

> 
>  -- Keir

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