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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:18:27 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni.trematerra@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>, avg@freebsd.org, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>, kib@freebsd.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>, jkim@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic when unpluggin AC adaptor
Message-ID:  <201006110818.27366.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinJuPX9CLW5RRYF8Xh8vX7uKacU9BpmX5uuFuxw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 11 June 2010 6:27:48 am Giovanni Trematerra wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Giovanni Trematerra
> <giovanni.trematerra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:35 PM, David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> Good news ! It worked, check the picture here :
> >>
> >> http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/4244/dsc00361g.jpg
> >>
> >
> > Into the file sys/dev/acpica/acpi_cpu.c at the end of acpi_cpu_notify
> > (a per cpu notification handler), called when _CST objects changing,
> > global cpu_cx_count is set to the greatest value of all sc->cpu_cx_count
> > per-cpu variables. That could result in a panic as David reported,
> > because that lets to invoke acpi_cpu_global_cx_lowest_sysctl from
> > /etc/rc.d/power_profile, when AC adapter is unplugged,  with a value
> > that not all the CPUs could handle in the acpi_cpu_idle.
> > The patch also change global cpu_cx_lowest according to new value of
> > global cpu_cx_count if needed.
> >
> > David Demelier made a great work to test every patch I sent him
> > to identify the source of the problem.
> >
> > Please, let me know your comments and possibly commit the patch
> > if you think is good enough.
> 
> As jhb@ pointed me out in private with the previous patch a CPU could
> never enter in the
> lowest Cx-state even if it gained.
> So I'd like to propose this new solution.
> When hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest sysctl is set, the global handler in
> sys/dev/acpi_cpu.c
> will set the greatest sc->cpu_cx_lowest value supported by the CPU and
> not the same
> value for all CPUs.
> Later, when CPU, possibly gain new Cx-states, the acpi_cpu_notify
> handler will set
> sc->cpu_cx_lowest accordingly with global cx_lowest and the Cx-states
> supported by
> the CPU.
> 
> Now I think that /etc/rc.d/power_profile script has a problem but that
> is a different story.
> The script select the lowest_value only querying cx-states of the dev.cpu.0.
> If different CPUs may have different Cx-states, the script should use
> as lowest_value the
> lowest value between all the CPUs.

Yes.

> Please, let me know your comments and possibly commit the patch
> if you think is good enough.

I think this is a good compromise for now.

-- 
John Baldwin



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