[PATCH, resend] eliminate spurious pointless WARN_ON()s

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu Mar 12 2009 - 09:21:21 EST


Namely during early boot, the panic() or BUG() paths may end up in
smp_call_function_*() with just a single online CPU. In that situation
the warnings generated are not only meaningless, but also result in
relevant output being cluttered.

Therefore, defer the WARN_ON() checks until after the (unaffected from
the problem that is being attempted to be detected here) cases have
been handled.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
kernel/smp.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- tip/kernel/smp.c
+++ tip-smp-call-defer-warn/kernel/smp.c
@@ -282,9 +282,6 @@ int smp_call_function_single(int cpu, vo
*/
this_cpu = get_cpu();

- /* Can deadlock when called with interrupts disabled */
- WARN_ON(irqs_disabled());
-
if (cpu == this_cpu) {
local_irq_save(flags);
func(info);
@@ -292,6 +289,9 @@ int smp_call_function_single(int cpu, vo
if ((unsigned)cpu < nr_cpu_ids && cpu_online(cpu)) {
struct call_single_data *data = &d;

+ /* Can deadlock when called with interrupts disabled */
+ WARN_ON(irqs_disabled());
+
if (!wait)
data = &__get_cpu_var(csd_data);

@@ -365,9 +365,6 @@ void smp_call_function_many(const struct
unsigned long flags;
int cpu, next_cpu, this_cpu = smp_processor_id();

- /* Can deadlock when called with interrupts disabled */
- WARN_ON(irqs_disabled());
-
/* So, what's a CPU they want? Ignoring this one. */
cpu = cpumask_first_and(mask, cpu_online_mask);
if (cpu == this_cpu)
@@ -387,6 +384,9 @@ void smp_call_function_many(const struct
return;
}

+ /* Can deadlock when called with interrupts disabled */
+ WARN_ON(irqs_disabled());
+
data = &__get_cpu_var(cfd_data);
csd_lock(&data->csd);




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