[Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 3/6] xen: sched: clarify use cases of schedule_cpu_switch()

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

schedule_cpu_switch() is meant to be only used for moving
pCPUs from a cpupool to no cpupool, and from there back
to a cpupool, *not* to move them directly from one cpupool
to another.

This is something inherent to the way the function is
implemented and called, but is not that clear, just by the
look of it.

Make it more evident by:
 - adding commentary and ASSERT()s;
 - update the cpupool per-CPU variable (mapping pCPUs to
   pools) directly in schedule_cpu_switch(), rather than
   in various places in cpupool.c.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
Changes from v2:
 * updating of per_cpu(cpupool, cpu) is now done in
   schedule_cpu_switch(), as suggested during review.

Changes from v1:
 * new patch, was not there in v1;
---
 xen/common/cpupool.c  |    7 -------
 xen/common/schedule.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/cpupool.c b/xen/common/cpupool.c
index e79850b..8e7b723 100644
--- a/xen/common/cpupool.c
+++ b/xen/common/cpupool.c
@@ -261,19 +261,13 @@ int cpupool_move_domain(struct domain *d, struct cpupool 
*c)
 static int cpupool_assign_cpu_locked(struct cpupool *c, unsigned int cpu)
 {
     int ret;
-    struct cpupool *old;
     struct domain *d;
 
     if ( (cpupool_moving_cpu == cpu) && (c != cpupool_cpu_moving) )
         return -EBUSY;
-    old = per_cpu(cpupool, cpu);
-    per_cpu(cpupool, cpu) = c;
     ret = schedule_cpu_switch(cpu, c);
     if ( ret )
-    {
-        per_cpu(cpupool, cpu) = old;
         return ret;
-    }
 
     cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &cpupool_free_cpus);
     if (cpupool_moving_cpu == cpu)
@@ -326,7 +320,6 @@ static long cpupool_unassign_cpu_helper(void *info)
             cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &cpupool_free_cpus);
             goto out;
         }
-        per_cpu(cpupool, cpu) = NULL;
         cpupool_moving_cpu = -1;
         cpupool_put(cpupool_cpu_moving);
         cpupool_cpu_moving = NULL;
diff --git a/xen/common/schedule.c b/xen/common/schedule.c
index 88e456f..1512d79 100644
--- a/xen/common/schedule.c
+++ b/xen/common/schedule.c
@@ -1486,6 +1486,17 @@ void __init scheduler_init(void)
         BUG();
 }
 
+/*
+ * Move a pCPU outside of the influence of the scheduler of its current
+ * cpupool, or subject it to the scheduler of a new cpupool.
+ *
+ * For the pCPUs that are removed from their cpupool, their scheduler becomes
+ * &ops (the default scheduler, selected at boot, which also services the
+ * default cpupool). However, as these pCPUs are not really part of any pool,
+ * there won't be any scheduling event on them, not even from the default
+ * scheduler. Basically, they will just sit idle until they are explicitly
+ * added back to a cpupool.
+ */
 int schedule_cpu_switch(unsigned int cpu, struct cpupool *c)
 {
     struct vcpu *idle;
@@ -1493,9 +1504,24 @@ int schedule_cpu_switch(unsigned int cpu, struct cpupool 
*c)
     void *ppriv, *ppriv_old, *vpriv, *vpriv_old;
     struct scheduler *old_ops = per_cpu(scheduler, cpu);
     struct scheduler *new_ops = (c == NULL) ? &ops : c->sched;
+    struct cpupool *old_pool = per_cpu(cpupool, cpu);
+
+    /*
+     * pCPUs only move from a valid cpupool to free (i.e., out of any pool),
+     * or from free to a valid cpupool. In the former case (which happens when
+     * c is NULL), we want the CPU to have been marked as free already, as
+     * well as to not be valid for the source pool any longer, when we get to
+     * here. In the latter case (which happens when c is a valid cpupool), we
+     * want the CPU to still be marked as free, as well as to not yet be valid
+     * for the destination pool.
+     */
+    ASSERT(c != old_pool && (c != NULL || old_pool != NULL));
+    ASSERT(cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &cpupool_free_cpus));
+    ASSERT((c == NULL && !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, old_pool->cpu_valid)) ||
+           (c != NULL && !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, c->cpu_valid)));
 
     if ( old_ops == new_ops )
-        return 0;
+        goto out;
 
     idle = idle_vcpu[cpu];
     ppriv = SCHED_OP(new_ops, alloc_pdata, cpu);
@@ -1523,6 +1549,9 @@ int schedule_cpu_switch(unsigned int cpu, struct cpupool 
*c)
     SCHED_OP(old_ops, free_vdata, vpriv_old);
     SCHED_OP(old_ops, free_pdata, ppriv_old, cpu);
 
+ out:
+    per_cpu(cpupool, cpu) = c;
+
     return 0;
 }
 


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