Re: 2.6.8-rc3-mm2

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:45:46PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Adding mdelay(1000) before and after the wakeup IPI didn't help. Must
>> be something else going on in printk().

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:34:45PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> None of the printk()'s in do_boot_cpu() appear essential. The following
> also boots:

Okay, it's down to one printk() and other smaller changes now. The mb()
and __init removal are both unnecessary too.


-- wli

--- mm2-2.6.8-rc3/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c.orig	2004-08-10 13:42:38.000000000 -0700
+++ mm2-2.6.8-rc3/arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c	2004-08-10 00:46:29.628376419 -0700
@@ -356,46 +356,16 @@
 	return cpu_idle();
 }
 
-struct create_idle {
-	struct task_struct *idle;
-	struct completion done;
-	int cpu;
-};
-
-void
-do_fork_idle(void *_c_idle)
-{
-	struct create_idle *c_idle = _c_idle;
-
-	c_idle->idle = fork_idle(c_idle->cpu);
-	complete(&c_idle->done);
-}
-
 static int __devinit
 do_boot_cpu (int sapicid, int cpu)
 {
 	int timeout;
-	struct create_idle c_idle = {
-		.cpu	= cpu,
-		.done	= COMPLETION_INITIALIZER(c_idle.done),
-	};
-	DECLARE_WORK(work, do_fork_idle, &c_idle);
 	/*
 	 * We can't use kernel_thread since we must avoid to reschedule the child.
 	 */
-	if (!keventd_up() || current_is_keventd())
-		work.func(work.data);
-	else {
-		schedule_work(&work);
-		wait_for_completion(&c_idle.done);
-	}
-
-	if (IS_ERR(c_idle.idle))
-		panic("failed fork for CPU %d", cpu);
-	task_for_booting_cpu = c_idle.idle;
-
-	Dprintk("Sending wakeup vector %lu to AP 0x%x/0x%x.\n", ap_wakeup_vector, cpu, sapicid);
-
+	task_for_booting_cpu = fork_idle(cpu);
+	if (IS_ERR(task_for_booting_cpu))
+		 panic("failed fork for CPU %d", cpu);
 	platform_send_ipi(cpu, ap_wakeup_vector, IA64_IPI_DM_INT, 0);
 
 	/*
@@ -671,6 +641,7 @@
 		return 0;
 	}
 	/* Processor goes to start_secondary(), sets online flag */
+	printk("about to call do_boot_cpu(%d, %d)\n", sapicid, cpu);
 	ret = do_boot_cpu(sapicid, cpu);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
-
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