@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct smp_ops_t {
#endif
void (*probe)(void);
int (*kick_cpu)(int nr);
+ int (*prepare_cpu)(int nr);
void (*setup_cpu)(int nr);
void (*bringup_done)(void);
void (*take_timebase)(void);
@@ -521,6 +521,16 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *tidle)
cpu_idle_thread_init(cpu, tidle);
+ /*
+ * The platform might need to allocate resources prior to bringing
+ * up the CPU
+ */
+ if (smp_ops->prepare_cpu) {
+ rc = smp_ops->prepare_cpu(cpu);
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
+ }
+
/* Make sure callin-map entry is 0 (can be leftover a CPU
* hotplug
*/
Some platforms (will) need to perform allocations before bringing a new CPU online. Doing it from smp_ops->setup_cpu is the wrong thing to do: - It has no useful failure path (too late) - Calling any allocator will enable interrupts prematurely causing problems with large decrementer among others Instead, add a new callback that is called from __cpu_up (so from the context trying to online the new CPU) at a point where we can safely allocate and handle failures. This will be used by XIVE support. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)