How to remove warn msg "cache: parent cpui should not be sleeping" i=1, 2, 3...

Jisheng Zhang jszhang at marvell.com
Wed Dec 21 23:48:44 PST 2016


On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:54:22 +0000 Sudeep Holla wrote:

> On 21/12/16 11:37, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is a bug, when wake up from s2ram, I could get something
> > like:
> > 
> > [  313.271464] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> > [  313.271551] CPU1: Booted secondary processor
> > [  313.271556] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU1
> > [  313.301378]  cache: parent cpu1 should not be sleeping
> > [  313.301504] CPU1 is up
> > [  313.301582] CPU2: Booted secondary processor
> > [  313.301585] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU2
> > [  313.331485]  cache: parent cpu2 should not be sleeping
> > [  313.331605] CPU2 is up
> > [  313.331683] CPU3: Booted secondary processor
> > [  313.331686] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU3
> > [  313.361599]  cache: parent cpu3 should not be sleeping
> > [  313.361719] CPU3 is up
> > 
> > This is because we call cpu_device_create() when secondary cpu is brought
> > online, the cpu_cache device's parent device: cpu device isn't already
> > resumed, all device resume will resume after secondary cores are brought
> > up.
> > 
> > What's the elegant solution to remove this warning msg?
> >   
> 
> It is not a serious warning as you can see a comment in the code:
> "/*
>  * This is a fib.  But we'll allow new children to be added below
>  * a resumed device, even if the device hasn't been completed yet.
>  */"
> 

Great, make sense, I agree with "this is not a serious warn msg".

Thanks for the help,
Jisheng


> But if we think it needs to be removed, I have something like below in
> my mind. I am not sure if this is hacky or not(completely untested, not
> even compiled).
> 
> Regards,
> Sudeep
> 
> -->8  
> 
> diff --git i/drivers/base/cpu.c w/drivers/base/cpu.c
> index 4c28e1a09786..2a5c04377adf 100644
> --- i/drivers/base/cpu.c
> +++ w/drivers/base/cpu.c
> @@ -344,6 +344,14 @@ static int cpu_uevent(struct device *dev, struct
> kobj_uevent_env *env)
>  }
>  #endif
> 
> +static int cpu_dev_pm_unset_is_prepared(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +       struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
> +
> +       if(cpu_dev)
> +               cpu_dev->power.is_prepared = false;
> +       return 0;
> +}
>  /*
>   * register_cpu - Setup a sysfs device for a CPU.
>   * @cpu - cpu->hotpluggable field set to 1 will generate a control file in
> @@ -377,7 +385,9 @@ int register_cpu(struct cpu *cpu, int num)
>         per_cpu(cpu_sys_devices, num) = &cpu->dev;
>         register_cpu_under_node(num, cpu_to_node(num));
> 
> -       return 0;
> +       return cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_CPUDEV_PM_PREPARE,
> +                                "base/cpu/dev_pm:prepare",
> +                                cpu_dev_pm_unset_is_prepared, NULL);
>  }
> 
>  struct device *get_cpu_device(unsigned cpu)
> diff --git i/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h w/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
> index 2ab7bf53d529..5bfe3c1aa148 100644
> --- i/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
> +++ w/include/linux/cpuhotplug.h
> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ enum cpuhp_state {
>         CPUHP_SLAB_PREPARE,
>         CPUHP_MD_RAID5_PREPARE,
>         CPUHP_RCUTREE_PREP,
> +       CPUHP_CPUDEV_PM_PREPARE,
>         CPUHP_CPUIDLE_COUPLED_PREPARE,
>         CPUHP_POWERPC_PMAC_PREPARE,
>         CPUHP_POWERPC_MMU_CTX_PREPARE,




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