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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/stop_machine.c, branch tegra-10.9.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>cpumask: remove cpumask_t from core</title>
<updated>2009-03-30T11:35:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
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<published>2009-03-31T04:05:16+00:00</published>
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Impact: cleanup

struct cpumask is nicer, and we use it to make where we've made code
safe for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Impact: cleanup

struct cpumask is nicer, and we use it to make where we've made code
safe for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>alloc_percpu: change percpu_ptr to per_cpu_ptr</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T07:29:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
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<published>2009-02-20T07:29:08+00:00</published>
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Impact: cleanup

There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical
spelling.  The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44
files), so change over the other 4 files.

tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Impact: cleanup

There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical
spelling.  The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44
files), so change over the other 4 files.

tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy.</title>
<updated>2009-01-04T22:10:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-22T11:36:30+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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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 &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>cpumask: convert rest of files in kernel/</title>
<updated>2008-12-31T23:42:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-31T23:42:28+00:00</published>
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Impact: Reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API.

Mainly changing cpumask_t to 'struct cpumask' and similar simple API
conversion.  Two conversions worth mentioning:

1) we use cpumask_any_but to avoid a temporary in kernel/softlockup.c,
2) Use cpumask_var_t in taskstats_user_cmd().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
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Impact: Reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API.

Mainly changing cpumask_t to 'struct cpumask' and similar simple API
conversion.  Two conversions worth mentioning:

1) we use cpumask_any_but to avoid a temporary in kernel/softlockup.c,
2) Use cpumask_var_t in taskstats_user_cmd().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>stop_machine: fix race with return value (fixes Bug #11989)</title>
<updated>2008-11-16T23:09:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-16T21:52:18+00:00</published>
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Bug #11989: Suspend failure on NForce4-based boards due to chanes in
stop_machine

We should not access active.fnret outside the lock; in theory the next
stop_machine could overwrite it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Bug #11989: Suspend failure on NForce4-based boards due to chanes in
stop_machine

We should not access active.fnret outside the lock; in theory the next
stop_machine could overwrite it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls."</title>
<updated>2008-10-26T02:53:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-26T02:53:38+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit a802dd0eb5fc97a50cf1abb1f788a8f6cc5db635 by moving
the call to init_workqueues() back where it belongs - after SMP has been
initialized.

It also moves stop_machine_init() - which needs workqueues - to a later
phase using a core_initcall() instead of early_initcall().  That should
satisfy all ordering requirements, and was apparently the reason why
init_workqueues() was moved to be too early.

Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit a802dd0eb5fc97a50cf1abb1f788a8f6cc5db635 by moving
the call to init_workqueues() back where it belongs - after SMP has been
initialized.

It also moves stop_machine_init() - which needs workqueues - to a later
phase using a core_initcall() instead of early_initcall().  That should
satisfy all ordering requirements, and was apparently the reason why
init_workqueues() was moved to be too early.

Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>stop_machine: fix error code handling on multiple cpus</title>
<updated>2008-10-21T23:00:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-22T15:00:26+00:00</published>
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Using |= for updating a value which might be updated on several cpus
concurrently will not always work since we need to make sure that the
update happens atomically.
To fix this just use a write if the called function returns an error
code on a cpu. We end up writing the error code of an arbitrary cpu
if multiple ones fail but that should be sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Using |= for updating a value which might be updated on several cpus
concurrently will not always work since we need to make sure that the
update happens atomically.
To fix this just use a write if the called function returns an error
code on a cpu. We end up writing the error code of an arbitrary cpu
if multiple ones fail but that should be sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>stop_machine: use workqueues instead of kernel threads</title>
<updated>2008-10-21T23:00:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-13T21:50:10+00:00</published>
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Convert stop_machine to a workqueue based approach. Instead of using kernel
threads for stop_machine we now use a an rt workqueue to synchronize all
cpus.
This has the advantage that all needed per cpu threads are already created
when stop_machine gets called. And therefore a call to stop_machine won't
fail anymore. This is needed for s390 which needs a mechanism to synchronize
all cpus without allocating any memory.
As Rusty pointed out free_module() needs a non-failing stop_machine interface
as well.

As a side effect the stop_machine code gets simplified.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Convert stop_machine to a workqueue based approach. Instead of using kernel
threads for stop_machine we now use a an rt workqueue to synchronize all
cpus.
This has the advantage that all needed per cpu threads are already created
when stop_machine gets called. And therefore a call to stop_machine won't
fail anymore. This is needed for s390 which needs a mechanism to synchronize
all cpus without allocating any memory.
As Rusty pointed out free_module() needs a non-failing stop_machine interface
as well.

As a side effect the stop_machine code gets simplified.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>stop_machine: remove unused variable</title>
<updated>2008-08-12T07:52:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-31T02:31:02+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>stop_machine(): stop_machine_run() changed to use cpu mask</title>
<updated>2008-07-28T02:16:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
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<published>2008-07-28T17:16:30+00:00</published>
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Instead of a "cpu" arg with magic values NR_CPUS (any cpu) and ~0 (all
cpus), pass a cpumask_t.  Allow NULL for the common case (where we
don't care which CPU the function is run on): temporary cpumask_t's
are usually considered bad for stack space.

This deprecates stop_machine_run, to be removed soon when all the
callers are dead.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Instead of a "cpu" arg with magic values NR_CPUS (any cpu) and ~0 (all
cpus), pass a cpumask_t.  Allow NULL for the common case (where we
don't care which CPU the function is run on): temporary cpumask_t's
are usually considered bad for stack space.

This deprecates stop_machine_run, to be removed soon when all the
callers are dead.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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