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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] No cpu_add_remove_lock in do_boot_cpu

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] No cpu_add_remove_lock in do_boot_cpu
From: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:23:23 +0800
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Thread-topic: [PATCH] No cpu_add_remove_lock in do_boot_cpu
No cpu_add_remove_lock in do_boot_cpu.

The do_boot_cpu() will be called when system booting or CPU online. When system 
booting, we don't need hold this lock. When system online, the lock is held 
already by cpu_up.

Signed-off-by: Jiang, Yunhong <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>

diff -r c1f272c3a441 xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c    Mon Mar 15 17:08:29 2010 +0000
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c    Thu Mar 18 15:46:12 2010 +0800
@@ -984,10 +984,8 @@ static int __devinit do_boot_cpu(int api
                cpucount--;
 
                /* Mark the CPU as non-present */
-               spin_lock(&cpu_add_remove_lock);
                x86_cpu_to_apicid[cpu] = BAD_APICID;
                cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_present_map);
-               spin_unlock(&cpu_add_remove_lock);
        } else {
        }
 


Attachment: bootcpu_lock.patch
Description: bootcpu_lock.patch

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