Re: [PATCH 08/10] SPARC: smp: remove call toipi_call_lock_irq()/ipi_call_unlock_irq()

From: David Miller
Date: Tue May 29 2012 - 04:17:39 EST


From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 13:31:54 +0530

> On 05/29/2012 12:46 PM, Yong Zhang wrote:
>
>> From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 1) call_function.lock used in smp_call_function_many() is just to protect
>> call_function.queue and &data->refs, cpu_online_mask is outside of the
>> lock. And it's not necessary to protect cpu_online_mask,
>> because data->cpumask is pre-calculate and even if a cpu is brougt up
>> when calling arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(), it's harmless because
>> validation test in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() will take care
>> of it.
>>
>> 2) For cpu down issue, stop_machine() will guarantee that no concurrent
>> smp_call_fuction() is processing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>> arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c | 6 ++----
>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
>> index f591598..60e745c 100644
>> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
>> @@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ void __cpuinit smp_callin(void)
>> while (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpuid, &smp_commenced_mask))
>> rmb();
>>
>> - ipi_call_lock_irq();
>> + local_irq_disable();
>
>
> This looks odd. IRQs must not have been enabled at this point.
> Just remove the call to local_irq_enable() that is found a few lines above
> this line and then you won't have to add this call to local_irq_disable().

Agreed.
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