CPU Hotplug

CPU 热插拔, 或者是 online/offline, 是 linux 支持的一个功能.

要使用这个功能,先要在内核配置选项里选中相关的选项:

CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y

CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y

CONFIG_SMP=y

系统启动后,执行:

root@taotao:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1#echo 0 > online 
CPU1: shutdown

root@taotao:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1#cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 587.36
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

processor	: 2
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 589.00
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

processor	: 3
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 611.94
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

Hardware	: ARM-Versatile Express
Revision	: 0000
Serial		: 0000000000000000

可以看到, cpu1 确实看不到了.

下面重新挂上 CPU1:

root@taotao:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1#echo 1 > online 
CPU1: 13 spurious wakeup calls
CPU1: Booted secondary processor

root@taotao:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1#cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 587.36
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

processor	: 1
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 1219.78
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

processor	: 2
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 589.00
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

processor	: 3
model name	: ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 611.94
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xc09
CPU revision	: 0

Hardware	: ARM-Versatile Express
Revision	: 0000
Serial		: 0000000000000000

CPU1现在可以看到了.

但是遇到一个问题,去卸载 CPU0的时候,没有成功,提示不允许:

root@taotao:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0#echo 0 > online 
sh: write error: Operation not permitted

难道是第一个 CPU不允许卸载?

内核关于 hotplug的文档(Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt)里说,在某些情况下 CPU0确实是不可以卸载的.

比如,CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0没有选中,那 CPU0就不能卸载.

在有些架构上, 如果 CPU0不能卸载,那么 cpu0目录下 online文件就不存在.

但是,有些架构的 CPU, 需要动态判断.也就是说,需要根据 echo 0 > online的返回值判断.

如果为  1, 那么表示这个 CPU是不能卸载的.

看来我所实验的属于需要动态判断的类型.

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今天查看了下代码,确实是这样的.

相关的函数如下:

static int platform_cpu_disable(unsigned int cpu)
{
    if (smp_ops.cpu_disable)
        return smp_ops.cpu_disable(cpu);

    /*  
     * By default, allow disabling all CPUs except the first one,
     * since this is special on a lot of platforms, e.g. because
     * of clock tick interrupts.
     */
    return cpu == 0 ? -EPERM : 0;
}

其中

smp_ops.cpu_disable

为NULL, 所以 cpu0 是不能 offline的.

echo > online 对应的这个函数的调用栈为

#0  platform_cpu_disable (cpu=0) at arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:155
#1  0xc037b794 in __cpu_disable () at arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:165
#2  0xc0379594 in take_cpu_down (_param=0xee43def0) at kernel/cpu.c:275
#3  0xc0076d10 in stop_machine_cpu_stop (data=data@entry=0xee43deb0) at kernel/stop_machine.c:436
#4  0xc0076b84 in cpu_stopper_thread (cpu=<optimized out>) at kernel/stop_machine.c:285
#5  0xc0044dc8 in smpboot_thread_fn (data=0xef084d80) at kernel/smpboot.c:160
#6  0xc003e03c in kthread (_create=0xef09fe70) at kernel/kthread.c:200
#7  0xc000e158 in ret_from_fork () at arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S:91