linux/arch/x86
Rusty Russell 816afe4ff9 x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
We still patch SMP instructions to UP variants if we boot with a
single CPU, but not at any other time.  In particular, not if we
unplug CPUs to return to a single cpu.

Paul McKenney points out:

 mean offline overhead is 6251/48=130.2 milliseconds.

 If I remove the alternatives_smp_switch() from the offline
 path [...] the mean offline overhead is 550/42=13.1 milliseconds

Basically, we're never going to get those 120ms back, and the
code is pretty messy.

We get rid of:

 1) The "smp-alt-once" boot option. It's actually "smp-alt-boot", the
    documentation is wrong. It's now the default.

 2) The skip_smp_alternatives flag used by suspend.

 3) arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_begin() and arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_end()
    which were only used to set this one flag.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vcgwwive.fsf@rustcorp.com.au
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-08-23 10:45:13 +02:00
..
boot x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
configs
crypto crypto: twofish-avx - remove useless instruction 2012-07-11 11:08:30 +08:00
ia32 x86, compat: Use test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) in compat signal delivery 2012-06-14 18:16:04 -07:00
include/asm x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus 2012-08-23 10:45:13 +02:00
kernel x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus 2012-08-23 10:45:13 +02:00
kvm KVM: VMX: Fix ds/es corruption on i386 with preemption 2012-08-01 20:23:57 -03:00
lguest
lib Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into perf/core 2012-07-05 21:12:11 +02:00
math-emu
mm mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd 2012-08-21 16:45:02 -07:00
net x86 bpf_jit: support BPF_S_ANC_ALU_XOR_X instruction 2012-06-06 09:42:44 -07:00
oprofile perf/x86/amd: Unify AMD's generic and family 15h pmus 2012-07-05 21:19:41 +02:00
pci Merge branch 'pci/myron-pcibios_setup' into next 2012-07-05 15:31:05 -06:00
platform Revert "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock" 2012-08-14 09:58:25 -07:00
power
realmode x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
syscalls x32: Use compat shims for {g,s}etsockopt 2012-08-18 14:15:39 -07:00
tools x86/decoder: Fix bsr/bsf/jmpe decoding with operand-size prefix 2012-06-06 08:54:18 +02:00
um um: switch UPT_SET_RETURN_VALUE and regs_return_value to pt_regs 2012-08-01 23:33:16 +02:00
vdso x86, cpu: Rename checking_wrmsrl() to wrmsrl_safe() 2012-06-07 13:32:04 -07:00
video
xen x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus 2012-08-23 10:45:13 +02:00
.gitignore
Kbuild x86, realmode: realmode.bin infrastructure 2012-05-08 11:41:48 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-08-03 10:59:36 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs 2012-06-27 19:29:10 -07:00
Makefile x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um