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stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop

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Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop.  As cpu stoppers are
guaranteed to be available for all online cpus,
stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed.

With resource management and synchronization handled by cpu_stop, the
new implementation is much simpler.  Asking the cpu_stop to execute
the stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug
disabled is enough.

stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources
anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct
stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are
removed.

The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as
necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very
large machines.  According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic
creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very
large machines.  cpu_stop resources are preallocated for all online
cpus and should have the same effect.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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Tejun Heo
2010-05-06 18:49:20 +02:00
parent 1142d81029
commit 3fc1f1e27a
6 changed files with 41 additions and 172 deletions
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@@ -266,9 +266,6 @@ int __ref cpu_down(unsigned int cpu)
{
int err;
err = stop_machine_create();
if (err)
return err;
cpu_maps_update_begin();
if (cpu_hotplug_disabled) {
@@ -280,7 +277,6 @@ int __ref cpu_down(unsigned int cpu)
out:
cpu_maps_update_done();
stop_machine_destroy();
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_down);
@@ -361,9 +357,6 @@ int disable_nonboot_cpus(void)
{
int cpu, first_cpu, error;
error = stop_machine_create();
if (error)
return error;
cpu_maps_update_begin();
first_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
/*
@@ -394,7 +387,6 @@ int disable_nonboot_cpus(void)
printk(KERN_ERR "Non-boot CPUs are not disabled\n");
}
cpu_maps_update_done();
stop_machine_destroy();
return error;
}