Hi Paul,
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:42:18 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:08:47AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:07:47PM +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
> > > Hi Paul,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:39:13 -0700
> > > "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:15:59PM +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > >
> > > > > When I debugged a suspend/resume bug, I found that
> > > > > tick_broadcast_mask is not restored for a CPU after it is
> > > > > offline/onlined since kernel 3.4, while it's fine for 3.3.
> > > >
> > > > Could you please try 3.5?
> > >
> > > Yes, it's the same for 3.5
> >
> > Thank you for checking, Feng.
> >
> > Len, the comment above the change says:
> >
> > /*
> > * FIXME: Design the ACPI notification to make it once per
> > * system instead of once per-cpu. This condition is a hack
> > * to make the code that updates C-States be called once.
> > */
> >
> > Is it time for this design-level change? Or is there something obvious
> > that I missed when fixing the smp_processor_id() splat?
> >
> > I could revert back, but use raw_smp_processor_id() rather than
> > smp_processor_id(), but that feels like papering over a problem rather
> > than fixing it.
>
> But should papering be appropriate, here is the patch.
>
> Thanx, Paul
Just found and have a patch to fix a typo in acpi processor_driver.c, which
could also fix this tick_broadcast_mask issue.
Patch is in https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/30/483
So I think we don't need this "papering over" patch :)
Thanks,
Feng
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ACPI: Repair fix to unprotected smp_processor_id()
>
> Commit 9505626d (ACPI: Fix unprotected smp_processor_id() in
> acpi_processor_cst_has_changed()) introduced a suspend/resume bug.
> This commit therefore introduces a bug-for-bug compatible fix for the
> original problem.
>
> Reported-by: Feng Tang <feng.t...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mcken...@linaro.org>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> index 47a8caa..19c151a 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> @@ -1218,7 +1218,8 @@ int acpi_processor_cst_has_changed(struct
> acpi_processor *pr)
> * to make the code that updates C-States be called once.
> */
>
> - if (pr->id == 0 && cpuidle_get_driver() == &acpi_idle_driver) {
> + if (raw_smp_processor_id() == 0 &&
> + cpuidle_get_driver() == &acpi_idle_driver) {
>
> cpuidle_pause_and_lock();
> /* Protect against cpu-hotplug */
>
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