sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness

Stepan found:

CPU0		CPUn

_cpu_up()
  __cpu_up()

		boostrap()
		  notify_cpu_starting()
		  set_cpu_online()
		  while (!cpu_active())
		    cpu_relax()

<PREEMPT-out>

smp_call_function(.wait=1)
  /* we find cpu_online() is true */
  arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()

  /* wait-forever-more */

<PREEMPT-in>
		  local_irq_enable()

  cpu_notify(CPU_ONLINE)
    sched_cpu_active()
      set_cpu_active()

Now the purpose of cpu_active is mostly with bringing down a cpu, where
we mark it !active to avoid the load-balancer from moving tasks to it
while we tear down the cpu. This is required because we only update the
sched_domain tree after we brought the cpu-down. And this is needed so
that some tasks can still run while we bring it down, we just don't want
new tasks to appear.

On cpu-up however the sched_domain tree doesn't yet include the new cpu,
so its invisible to the load-balancer, regardless of the active state.
So instead of setting the active state after we boot the new cpu (and
consequently having to wait for it before enabling interrupts) set the
cpu active before we set it online and avoid the whole mess.

Reported-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323965362.18942.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 66d250c00d11..58f78165d308 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -291,19 +291,6 @@ notrace static void __cpuinit start_secondary(void *unused)
 	per_cpu(cpu_state, smp_processor_id()) = CPU_ONLINE;
 	x86_platform.nmi_init();
 
-	/*
-	 * Wait until the cpu which brought this one up marked it
-	 * online before enabling interrupts. If we don't do that then
-	 * we can end up waking up the softirq thread before this cpu
-	 * reached the active state, which makes the scheduler unhappy
-	 * and schedule the softirq thread on the wrong cpu. This is
-	 * only observable with forced threaded interrupts, but in
-	 * theory it could also happen w/o them. It's just way harder
-	 * to achieve.
-	 */
-	while (!cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), cpu_active_mask))
-		cpu_relax();
-
 	/* enable local interrupts */
 	local_irq_enable();