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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-07-03 08:30:27 -0500
committerClark Williams <williams@redhat.com>2011-12-28 16:25:39 -0600
commit5f68e0847c46db4acf11161ee7197685270279e6 (patch)
tree562aba66ef6ce8c11617b0909ebc193b40b374b3 /kernel
parent7cc457f5c6561dc8b665e559b81c8eb09c6a5a15 (diff)
stop_machine: convert stop_machine_run() to PREEMPT_RT
Instead of playing with non-preemption, introduce explicit startup serialization. This is more robust and cleaner as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/stop_machine.c20
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index 2f194e965715..61779f820e8e 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ void stop_one_cpu_nowait(unsigned int cpu, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg,
/* static data for stop_cpus */
static DEFINE_MUTEX(stop_cpus_mutex);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(stopper_lock);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_stop_work, stop_cpus_work);
static void queue_stop_cpus_work(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
@@ -153,15 +154,14 @@ static void queue_stop_cpus_work(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
}
/*
- * Disable preemption while queueing to avoid getting
- * preempted by a stopper which might wait for other stoppers
- * to enter @fn which can lead to deadlock.
+ * Make sure that all work is queued on all cpus before we
+ * any of the cpus can execute it.
*/
- preempt_disable();
+ mutex_lock(&stopper_lock);
for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask)
cpu_stop_queue_work(&per_cpu(cpu_stopper, cpu),
&per_cpu(stop_cpus_work, cpu));
- preempt_enable();
+ mutex_unlock(&stopper_lock);
}
static int __stop_cpus(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
@@ -275,6 +275,16 @@ repeat:
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+ /*
+ * Wait until the stopper finished scheduling on all
+ * cpus
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&stopper_lock);
+ /*
+ * Let other cpu threads continue as well
+ */
+ mutex_unlock(&stopper_lock);
+
/* cpu stop callbacks are not allowed to sleep */
preempt_disable();