Re: [patch] i386/x86_64: smp_call_function locking inconsistency

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
> > Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > >
> > > Oh wait, the on_one_cpu() patch proposes on UP:
> > >
> > > +static inline int on_one_cpu(int cpu, void (*func)(void *info), void
> > > *info,
> > > +                 int retry, int wait)
> > > +{
> > >
> > > /* this needs a if (cpu == 0) check here, IMO */
> > >
> > > +    local_irq_disable();
> > > +    func(info);
> > > +    local_irq_enable();
> > > +    return 0;
> > >
> > > /* else WARN and return -EINVAL; */
> > >
> > > +}
> > >
> > > which is broken without the suggested additions, IMHO
> > > (this is what got me into this in the first place). There
> > > _is_ a difference between on_each_cpu() and the
> > > smp_call_function* semantics (as discussed on the other
> > > thread -- gargh! my mistake for opening this discussion up
> > > on so many threads), and in its current form on_one_cpu()
> > > has quite confused semantics, trying to mix the two. I guess
> > > on_one_cpu() would be better off simply being just an
> > > atomic wrapper over smp_processor_id() and
> > > smp_call_function_single() (which is the *real* issue that
> > > needs solving in the first place), and do it well.
> > >
> >
> > This is on UP, so (cpu == 0) is trivially true.
>
> Yes, the caller code might derive the value for the cpu arg in
> such a manner to always only ever yield 0 on UP. OTOH,
> WARN_ON(!...)'s are often added for such assumptions that are
> understood to be trivially true. Note that a warning for cpu != 0
> would be perfectly justified, we'd clearly want to flag such
> (errant) users.

We don't catch incorrect cpu values in smp (because we can't); there's 
no reason to do so in UP IMO.

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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