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stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy.

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Introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. With this interface subsystems
that need a non-failing stop_machine environment can create the
stop_machine machine threads before actually calling stop_machine.
When the threads aren't needed anymore they can be killed with
stop_machine_destroy again.

When stop_machine gets called and the threads aren't present they
will be created and destroyed automatically. This restores the old
behaviour of stop_machine.

This patch also converts cpu hotplug to the new interface since it
is special: cpu_down calls __stop_machine instead of stop_machine.
However the kstop threads will only be created when stop_machine
gets called.

Changing the code so that the threads would be created automatically
on __stop_machine is currently not possible: when __stop_machine gets
called we hold cpu_add_remove_lock, which is the same lock that
create_rt_workqueue would take. So the workqueue needs to be created
before the cpu hotplug code locks cpu_add_remove_lock.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Heiko Carstens
2008-12-22 12:36:30 +01:00
committed by Rusty Russell
parent c298be7449
commit 9ea09af3bd
3 changed files with 72 additions and 11 deletions
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include/linux/stop_machine.h
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@ -35,6 +35,24 @@ int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);
* won't come or go while it's being called. Used by hotplug cpu.
*/
int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);
/**
* stop_machine_create: create all stop_machine threads
*
* Description: This causes all stop_machine threads to be created before
* stop_machine actually gets called. This can be used by subsystems that
* need a non failing stop_machine infrastructure.
*/
int stop_machine_create(void);
/**
* stop_machine_destroy: destroy all stop_machine threads
*
* Description: This causes all stop_machine threads which were created with
* stop_machine_create to be destroyed again.
*/
void stop_machine_destroy(void);
#else
static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
@ -46,5 +64,9 @@ static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
local_irq_enable();
return ret;
}
static inline int stop_machine_create(void) { return 0; }
static inline void stop_machine_destroy(void) { }
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
#endif /* _LINUX_STOP_MACHINE */