powerpc/rtas: don't online CPUs for partition suspend
Partition suspension, used for hibernation and migration, requires that the OS place all but one of the LPAR's processor threads into one of two states prior to calling the ibm,suspend-me RTAS function: * the architected offline state (via RTAS stop-self); or * the H_JOIN hcall, which does not return until the partition resumes execution Using H_CEDE as the offline mode, introduced by commit 3aa565f5 ("powerpc/pseries: Add hooks to put the CPU into an appropriate offline state"), means that any threads which are offline from Linux's point of view must be moved to one of those two states before a partition suspension can proceed. This was eventually addressed in commit 120496ac ("powerpc: Bring all threads online prior to migration/hibernation"), which added code to temporarily bring up any offline processor threads so they can call H_JOIN. Conceptually this is fine, but the implementation has had multiple races with cpu hotplug operations initiated from user space[1][2][3], the error handling is fragile, and it generates user-visible cpu hotplug events which is a lot of noise for a platform feature that's supposed to minimize disruption to workloads. With commit 3aa565f5 ("powerpc/pseries: Add hooks to put the CPU into an appropriate offline state") reverted, this code becomes unnecessary, so remove it. Since any offline CPUs now are truly offline from the platform's point of view, it is no longer necessary to bring up CPUs only to have them call H_JOIN and then go offline again upon resuming. Only active threads are required to call H_JOIN; stopped threads can be left alone. [1] commit a6717c01 ("powerpc/rtas: use device model APIs and serialization during LPM") [2] commit 9fb60305 ("powerpc/rtas: retry when cpu offline races with suspend/migration") [3] commit dfd718a2 ("powerpc/rtas: Fix a potential race between CPU-Offline & Migration") Fixes: 120496ac ("powerpc: Bring all threads online prior to migration/hibernation") Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200612051238.1007764-3-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
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