[PATCH] Migrate shutdown/reboot to boot cpu.

From: Robin Holt
Date: Wed Apr 03 2013 - 14:52:00 EST


We recently noticed that reboot of a 1024 cpu machine takes approx 16
minutes of just stopping the cpus. The slowdown was tracked to commit
f96972f.

The current implementation does all the work of hot removing the cpus
before halting the system. We are switching to just migrating to the
boot cpu and then calling continuing with shutdown/reboot.

This also has the effect of not breaking x86's command line parameter for
specifying the reboot cpu. Note, this code was shamelessly copied from
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c with bits removed pertaining to the reboot_cpu
command line parameter.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>
To: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sys.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 0da73cf..4d1047d 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -357,6 +357,19 @@ int unregister_reboot_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_reboot_notifier);

+void migrate_to_boot_cpu(void)
+{
+ /* The boot cpu is always logical cpu 0 */
+ int reboot_cpu_id = 0;
+
+ /* Make certain the cpu I'm about to reboot on is online */
+ if (!cpu_online(reboot_cpu_id))
+ reboot_cpu_id = smp_processor_id();
+
+ /* Make certain I only run on the appropriate processor */
+ set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(reboot_cpu_id));
+}
+
/**
* kernel_restart - reboot the system
* @cmd: pointer to buffer containing command to execute for restart
@@ -368,7 +381,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_reboot_notifier);
void kernel_restart(char *cmd)
{
kernel_restart_prepare(cmd);
- disable_nonboot_cpus();
+ migrate_to_boot_cpu();
syscore_shutdown();
if (!cmd)
printk(KERN_EMERG "Restarting system.\n");
@@ -414,7 +427,7 @@ void kernel_power_off(void)
kernel_shutdown_prepare(SYSTEM_POWER_OFF);
if (pm_power_off_prepare)
pm_power_off_prepare();
- disable_nonboot_cpus();
+ migrate_to_boot_cpu();
syscore_shutdown();
printk(KERN_EMERG "Power down.\n");
kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_POWEROFF);
--
1.8.1.2

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