Re: [PATCH] MIPS: cavium: Don't enable irq in ->init__secondary()

[Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 09:48:14AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 04/16/2012 12:25 AM, Yong Zhang wrote:
> >From: Yong Zhang<yong.zhang@windriver.com>
> >
> >Too early to enable irq will break some following action,
> >such as notify_cpu_starting().
> 
> Can you be more specific about what breaks?

For example:

        CPU1                            CPU2
__cpu_up();
  mp_ops->boot_secondary();
                                start_secondary();
                                  octeon_init_secondary();
                                    raw_local_irq_enable();
                                    <IRQ>
                                      do something;
                                      wake up softirqd;
                                      try_to_wake_up();
                                        select_fallback_rq();
                                        /* select wrong cpu */
    set_cpu_online();

> 
> >
> >I don't get side effect with this patch.
> 
> Without this, where do irqs get enabled on the secondary CPUs?

cpu_idle() will handle it. But in fact we should not depend on
cpu_idle().

But it seems there is not suitable place to put local_irq_enable(),
though ->smp_finish() looks like a more suitable place.

When looking more at smp support on MIPS, there is more things I find.
Such as set_cpu_online() is called on CPU1, so there will be another race
window like above scenario. Please take a look at what commit 2baab4e9
intend to resolve.

Thanks,
Yong




> 
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang<yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
> >Cc: David Daney<ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> >Cc: Ralf Baechle<ralf@linux-mips.org>
> >---
> >  arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c |    1 -
> >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> >index 97e7ce9..7e65c88 100644
> >--- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> >+++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/smp.c
> >@@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ static void __cpuinit octeon_init_secondary(void)
> >     octeon_init_cvmcount();
> >
> >     octeon_irq_setup_secondary();
> >-    raw_local_irq_enable();
> >  }
> >
> >  /**

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