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2015-12-12kernel: remove stop_machine() Kconfig dependencyChris Wilson
Currently the full stop_machine() routine is only enabled on SMP if module unloading is enabled, or if the CPUs are hotpluggable. This leads to configurations where stop_machine() is broken as it will then only run the callback on the local CPU with irqs disabled, and not stop the other CPUs or run the callback on them. For example, this breaks MTRR setup on x86 in certain configs since ea8596bb2d8d379 ("kprobes/x86: Remove unused text_poke_smp() and text_poke_smp_batch() functions") as the MTRR is only established on the boot CPU. This patch removes the Kconfig option for STOP_MACHINE and uses the SMP and HOTPLUG_CPU config options to compile the correct stop_machine() for the architecture, removing the false dependency on MODULE_UNLOAD in the process. Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/8/124 References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84794 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-10-20sched: Move cpu_active() tests from stop_two_cpus() into migrate_swap_stop()Peter Zijlstra
The cpu_active() tests are not fundamentally part of stop_two_cpus(), move then into the scheduler where they belong. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-20stop_machine: Kill cpu_stop_threads->setup() and cpu_stop_unpark()Oleg Nesterov
Now that we always use stop_machine_unpark() to wake the stopper threas up, we can kill ->setup() and fold cpu_stop_unpark() into stop_machine_unpark(). And we do not need stopper->lock to set stopper->enabled = true. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151009160051.GA10169@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-20stop_machine: Kill smp_hotplug_thread->pre_unpark, introduce ↵Oleg Nesterov
stop_machine_unpark() 1. Change smpboot_unpark_thread() to check ->selfparking, just like smpboot_park_thread() does. 2. Introduce stop_machine_unpark() which sets ->enabled and calls kthread_unpark(). 3. Change smpboot_thread_call() and cpu_stop_init() to call stop_machine_unpark() by hand. This way: - IMO the ->selfparking logic becomes more consistent. - We can kill the smp_hotplug_thread->pre_unpark() method. - We can easily unpark the stopper thread earlier. Say, we can move stop_machine_unpark() from smpboot_thread_call() to sched_cpu_active() as Peter suggests. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151009160049.GA10166@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-20stop_machine: Change cpu_stop_queue_two_works() to rely on stopper->enabledOleg Nesterov
Change cpu_stop_queue_two_works() to ensure that both CPU's have stopper->enabled == T or fail otherwise. This way stop_two_cpus() no longer needs to check cpu_active() to avoid the deadlock. This patch doesn't remove these checks, we will do this later. Note: we need to take both stopper->lock's at the same time, but this will also help to remove lglock from stop_machine.c, so I hope this is fine. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151008170141.GA25537@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-20stop_machine: Introduce __cpu_stop_queue_work() and cpu_stop_queue_two_works()Oleg Nesterov
Preparation to simplify the review of the next change. Add two simple helpers, __cpu_stop_queue_work() and cpu_stop_queue_two_works() which simply take a bit of code from their callers. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151008145134.GA18146@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-20stop_machine: Ensure that a queued callback will be called before ↵Oleg Nesterov
cpu_stop_park() cpu_stop_queue_work() checks stopper->enabled before it queues the work, but ->enabled == T can only guarantee cpu_stop_signal_done() if we race with cpu_down(). This is not enough for stop_two_cpus() or stop_machine(), they will deadlock if multi_cpu_stop() won't be called by one of the target CPU's. stop_machine/stop_cpus are fine, they rely on stop_cpus_mutex. But stop_two_cpus() has to check cpu_active() to avoid the same race with hotplug, and this check is very unobvious and probably not even correct if we race with cpu_up(). Change cpu_down() pass to clear ->enabled before cpu_stopper_thread() flushes the pending ->works and returns with KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK set. Note also that smpboot_thread_call() calls cpu_stop_unpark() which sets enabled == T at CPU_ONLINE stage, so this CPU can't go away until cpu_stopper_thread() is called at least once. This all means that if cpu_stop_queue_work() succeeds, we know that work->fn() will be called. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151008145131.GA18139@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03stop_machine: Remove cpu_stop_work's from list in cpu_stop_park()Oleg Nesterov
cpu_stop_park() does cpu_stop_signal_done() but leaves the work on stopper->works. The owner of this work can free/reuse this memory right after that and corrupt the list, so if this CPU becomes online again cpu_stopper_thread() will crash. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: der.herr@hofr.at Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150630012958.GA23944@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03stop_machine: Use 'cpu_stop_fn_t' where possibleOleg Nesterov
Cosmetic, but 'cpu_stop_fn_t' actually makes the code more readable and it doesn't break cscope. And most of the declarations already use it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: der.herr@hofr.at Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150630012955.GA23937@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03stop_machine: Unexport __stop_machine()Oleg Nesterov
The only caller outside of stop_machine.c is _cpu_down(), it can use stop_machine(). get_online_cpus() is fine under cpu_hotplug_begin(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: der.herr@hofr.at Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150630012951.GA23934@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03stop_machine: Don't do for_each_cpu() twice in queue_stop_cpus_work()Oleg Nesterov
queue_stop_cpus_work() can do everything in one for_each_cpu() loop. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: der.herr@hofr.at Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150630012948.GA23927@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03stop_machine: Move 'cpu_stopper_task' and 'stop_cpus_work' into 'struct ↵Oleg Nesterov
cpu_stopper' Multpiple DEFINE_PER_CPU's do not make sense, move all the per-cpu variables into 'struct cpu_stopper'. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: der.herr@hofr.at Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150630012944.GA23924@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-19sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus()Peter Zijlstra
Jiri reported a machine stuck in multi_cpu_stop() with migrate_swap_stop() as function and with the following src,dst cpu pairs: {11, 4} {13, 11} { 4, 13} 4 11 13 cpuM: queue(4 ,13) *Ma cpuN: queue(13,11) *N Na *M Mb cpuO: queue(11, 4) *O Oa *Nb *Ob Where *X denotes the cpu running the queueing of cpu-X and X[ab] denotes the first/second queued work. You'll observe the top of the workqueue for each cpu: 4,11,13 to be work from cpus: M, O, N resp. IOW. deadlock. Do away with the queueing trickery and introduce lg_double_lock() to lock both CPUs and fully serialize the stop_two_cpus() callers instead of the partial (and buggy) serialization we have now. Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150605153023.GH19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-04kernel/stop_machine.c: kernel-doc warning fixFabian Frederick
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-11stop_machine: Fix^2 race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus()Peter Zijlstra
We must use smp_call_function_single(.wait=1) for the irq_cpu_stop_queue_work() to ensure the queueing is actually done under stop_cpus_lock. Without this we could have dropped the lock by the time we do the queueing and get the race we tried to fix. Fixes: 7053ea1a34fa ("stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus()") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140228123905.GK3104@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-11stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus()Rik van Riel
There is a race between stop_two_cpus, and the global stop_cpus. It is possible for two CPUs to get their stopper functions queued "backwards" from one another, resulting in the stopper threads getting stuck, and the system hanging. This can happen because queuing up stoppers is not synchronized. This patch adds synchronization between stop_cpus (a rare operation), and stop_two_cpus. Reported-and-Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131101104146.03d1e043@annuminas.surriel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-16sched: Remove get_online_cpus() usagePeter Zijlstra
Remove get_online_cpus() usage from the scheduler; there's 4 sites that use it: - sched_init_smp(); where its completely superfluous since we're in 'early' boot and there simply cannot be any hotplugging. - sched_getaffinity(); we already take a raw spinlock to protect the task cpus_allowed mask, this disables preemption and therefore also stabilizes cpu_online_mask as that's modified using stop_machine. However switch to active mask for symmetry with sched_setaffinity()/set_cpus_allowed_ptr(). We guarantee active mask stability by inserting sync_rcu/sched() into _cpu_down. - sched_setaffinity(); we don't appear to need get_online_cpus() either, there's two sites where hotplug appears relevant: * cpuset_cpus_allowed(); for the !cpuset case we use possible_mask, for the cpuset case we hold task_lock, which is a spinlock and thus for mainline disables preemption (might cause pain on RT). * set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); Holds all scheduler locks and thus has preemption properly disabled; also it already deals with hotplug races explicitly where it releases them. - migrate_swap(); we can make stop_two_cpus() do the heavy lifting for us with a little trickery. By adding a sync_sched/rcu() after the CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifier we can provide preempt/rcu guarantees for cpu_active_mask. Use these to validate that both our cpus are active when queueing the stop work before we queue the stop_machine works for take_cpu_down(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131011123820.GV3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-09stop_machine: Introduce stop_two_cpus()Peter Zijlstra
Introduce stop_two_cpus() in order to allow controlled swapping of two tasks. It repurposes the stop_machine() state machine but only stops the two cpus which we can do with on-stack structures and avoid machine wide synchronization issues. The ordering of CPUs is important to avoid deadlocks. If unordered then two cpus calling stop_two_cpus on each other simultaneously would attempt to queue in the opposite order on each CPU causing an AB-BA style deadlock. By always having the lowest number CPU doing the queueing of works, we can guarantee that works are always queued in the same order, and deadlocks are avoided. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [ Implemented deadlock avoidance. ] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-38-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-02-26stop_machine: Mark per cpu stopper enabled earlyThomas Gleixner
commit 14e568e78 (stop_machine: Use smpboot threads) introduced the following regression: Before this commit the stopper enabled bit was set in the online notifier. CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online hotplug_notifier(ONLINE) stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; ... stop_machine() The conversion to smpboot threads moved the enablement to the wakeup path of the parked thread. The majority of users seem to have the following working order: CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online unpark_threads() wakeup(stopper[CPU1]) .... stopper thread runs stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; stop_machine() But Konrad and Sander have observed: CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up cpu online unpark_threads() wakeup(stopper[CPU1]) .... stop_machine() stopper thread runs stopper(CPU1)->enabled = true; Now the stop machinery kicks CPU0 into the stop loop, where it gets stuck forever because the queue code saw stopper(CPU1)->enabled == false, so CPU0 waits for CPU1 to enter stomp_machine, but the CPU1 stopper work got discarded due to enabled == false. Add a pre_unpark function to the smpboot thread descriptor and call it before waking the thread. This fixes the problem at hand, but the stop_machine code should be more robust. The stopper->enabled flag smells fishy at best. Thanks to Konrad for going through a loop of debug patches and providing the information to decode this issue. Reported-and-tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1302261843240.22263@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-02-14stop_machine: Use smpboot threadsThomas Gleixner
Use the smpboot thread infrastructure. Mark the stopper thread selfparking and park it after it has finished the take_cpu_down() work. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130131120741.686315164@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-02-14stop_machine: Store task reference in a separate per cpu variableThomas Gleixner
To allow the stopper thread being managed by the smpboot thread infrastructure separate out the task storage from the stopper data structure. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130131120741.626690384@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-11-06Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux * 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits) Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h" irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules. bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h> acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h> net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h> net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h> ... Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c} - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-10-31stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call earlyJeremy Fitzhardinge
Make stop_machine() safe to call early in boot, before SMP has been set up, by simply calling the callback function directly if there's only one CPU online. [ Fixes from AKPM: - add comment - local_irq_flags, not save_flags - also call hard_irq_disable() for systems which need it Tejun suggested using an explicit flag rather than just looking at the online cpu count. ] Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker
The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them onto the isolated export header for faster compile times. Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of: -#include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/export.h> This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-27x86, mtrr: use stop_machine APIs for doing MTRR rendezvousSuresh Siddha
MTRR rendezvous sequence is not implemened using stop_machine() before, as this gets called both from the process context aswell as the cpu online paths (where the cpu has not come online and the interrupts are disabled etc). Now that we have a new stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu() API, use it for rendezvous during mtrr init of a logical processor that is coming online. For the rest (runtime MTRR modification, system boot, resume paths), use stop_machine() to implement the rendezvous sequence. This will consolidate and cleanup the code. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110623182057.076997177@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-06-27stop_machine: implement stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu()Tejun Heo
Currently, mtrr wants stop_machine functionality while a CPU is being brought up. As stop_machine() requires the calling CPU to be active, mtrr implements its own stop_machine using stop_one_cpu() on each online CPU. This doesn't only unnecessarily duplicate complex logic but also introduces a possibility of deadlock when it races against the generic stop_machine(). This patch implements stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu() to serve such use cases. Its functionality is basically the same as stop_machine(); however, it should be called from a CPU which isn't active and doesn't depend on working scheduling on the calling CPU. This is achieved by using busy loops for synchronization and open-coding stop_cpus queuing and waiting with direct invocation of fn() for local CPU inbetween. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110623182056.982526827@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-06-27stop_machine: reorganize stop_cpus() implementationTejun Heo
Refactor the queuing part of the stop cpus work from __stop_cpus() into queue_stop_cpus_work(). The reorganization is to help future improvements to stop_machine() and doesn't introduce any behavior difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110623182056.897818337@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-06-27x86, mtrr: lock stop machine during MTRR rendezvous sequenceSuresh Siddha
MTRR rendezvous sequence using stop_one_cpu_nowait() can potentially happen in parallel with another system wide rendezvous using stop_machine(). This can lead to deadlock (The order in which works are queued can be different on different cpu's. Some cpu's will be running the first rendezvous handler and others will be running the second rendezvous handler. Each set waiting for the other set to join for the system wide rendezvous, leading to a deadlock). MTRR rendezvous sequence is not implemented using stop_machine() as this gets called both from the process context aswell as the cpu online paths (where the cpu has not come online and the interrupts are disabled etc). stop_machine() works with only online cpus. For now, take the stop_machine mutex in the MTRR rendezvous sequence that gets called from an online cpu (here we are in the process context and can potentially sleep while taking the mutex). And the MTRR rendezvous that gets triggered during cpu online doesn't need to take this stop_machine lock (as the stop_machine() already ensures that there is no cpu hotplug going on in parallel by doing get_online_cpus()) TBD: Pursue a cleaner solution of extending the stop_machine() infrastructure to handle the case where the calling cpu is still not online and use this for MTRR rendezvous sequence. fixes: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672008 Reported-by: Vadim Kotelnikov <vadimuzzz@inbox.ru> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110623182056.807230326@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.35+, backport a week or two after this gets more testing in mainline Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-03-22kthread: use kthread_create_on_node()Eric Dumazet
ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, and pktgend kthreads can be created with kthread_create_on_node(), to get proper NUMA affinities for their stack and task_struct. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26stop_machine: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno valueAkinobu Mita
In commit e6bde73b07edeb703d4c89c1daabc09c303de11f ("cpu-hotplug: return better errno on cpu hotplug failure"), the cpu notifier can return an encapsulated errno value. This converts the cpu notifier to return an encapsulated errno value for stop_machine(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26kernel/stop_machine.c: fix unused variable warningRakib Mullick
kernel/stop_machine.c: In function `cpu_stopper_thread': kernel/stop_machine.c:265: warning: unused variable `ksym_buf' ksym_buf[] is unused if WARN_ON() is a no-op. Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-18sched: Create special class for stop/migrate workPeter Zijlstra
In order to separate the stop/migrate work thread from the SCHED_FIFO implementation, create a special class for it that is of higher priority than SCHED_FIFO itself. This currently solves a problem where cpu-hotplug consumes so much cpu-time that the SCHED_FIFO class gets throttled, but has the bandwidth replenishment timer pending on the now dead cpu. It is also required for when we add the planned deadline scheduling class above SCHED_FIFO, as the stop/migrate thread still needs to transcent those tasks. Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1285165776.2275.1022.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-09stop_machine: struct cpu_stopper, remove alignment padding on 64 bitsRichard Kennedy
Reorder elements in structure cpu_stopper to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds, this shrinks its size from 40 to 32 bytes saving 8 bytes per cpu. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-31sched: Make sure timers have migrated before killing the migration_threadAmit K. Arora
Problem: In a stress test where some heavy tests were running along with regular CPU offlining and onlining, a hang was observed. The system seems to be hung at a point where migration_call() tries to kill the migration_thread of the dying CPU, which just got moved to the current CPU. This migration thread does not get a chance to run (and die) since rt_throttled is set to 1 on current, and it doesn't get cleared as the hrtimer which is supposed to reset the rt bandwidth (sched_rt_period_timer) is tied to the CPU which we just marked dead! Solution: This patch pushes the killing of migration thread to "CPU_POST_DEAD" event. By then all the timers (including sched_rt_period_timer) should have got migrated (along with other callbacks). Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <20100525132346.GA14986@amitarora.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-18stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in ↵Ingo Molnar
cpu_stop_cpu_callback() This addresses the following compiler warning: kernel/stop_machine.c: In function 'cpu_stop_cpu_callback': kernel/stop_machine.c:297: warning: unused variable 'work' Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <tip-3fc1f1e27a5b807791d72e5d992aa33b668a6626@git.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-08cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UPTejun Heo
When !CONFIG_SMP, cpu_stop functions weren't defined at all which could lead to build failures if UP code uses cpu_stop facility. Add dummy cpu_stop implementation for UP. The waiting variants execute the work function directly with preempt disabled and stop_one_cpu_nowait() schedules a workqueue work. Makefile and ifdefs around stop_machine implementation are updated to accomodate CONFIG_SMP && !CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE case. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-06sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stopTejun Heo
Currently migration_thread is serving three purposes - migration pusher, context to execute active_load_balance() and forced context switcher for expedited RCU synchronize_sched. All three roles are hardcoded into migration_thread() and determining which job is scheduled is slightly messy. This patch kills migration_thread and replaces all three uses with cpu_stop. The three different roles of migration_thread() are splitted into three separate cpu_stop callbacks - migration_cpu_stop(), active_load_balance_cpu_stop() and synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop() - and each use case now simply asks cpu_stop to execute the callback as necessary. synchronize_sched_expedited() was implemented with private preallocated resources and custom multi-cpu queueing and waiting logic, both of which are provided by cpu_stop. synchronize_sched_expedited_count is made atomic and all other shared resources along with the mutex are dropped. synchronize_sched_expedited() also implemented a check to detect cases where not all the callback got executed on their assigned cpus and fall back to synchronize_sched(). If called with cpu hotplug blocked, cpu_stop already guarantees that and the condition cannot happen; otherwise, stop_machine() would break. However, this patch preserves the paranoid check using a cpumask to record on which cpus the stopper ran so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually goes wrong theree. Because the internal execution state is no longer visible, rcu_expedited_torture_stats() is removed. This patch also renames cpu_stop threads to from "stopper/%d" to "migration/%d". The names of these threads ultimately don't matter and there's no reason to make unnecessary userland visible changes. With this patch applied, stop_machine() and sched now share the same resources. stop_machine() is faster without wasting any resources and sched migration users are much cleaner. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
2010-05-06stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stopTejun Heo
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>
2010-05-06cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]()Tejun Heo
Implement a simplistic per-cpu maximum priority cpu monopolization mechanism. A non-sleeping callback can be scheduled to run on one or multiple cpus with maximum priority monopolozing those cpus. This is primarily to replace and unify RT workqueue usage in stop_machine and scheduler migration_thread which currently is serving multiple purposes. Four functions are provided - stop_one_cpu(), stop_one_cpu_nowait(), stop_cpus() and try_stop_cpus(). This is to allow clean sharing of resources among stop_cpu and all the migration thread users. One stopper thread per cpu is created which is currently named "stopper/CPU". This will eventually replace the migration thread and take on its name. * This facility was originally named cpuhog and lived in separate files but Peter Zijlstra nacked the name and thus got renamed to cpu_stop and moved into stop_machine.c. * Better reporting of preemption leak as per Peter's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
2010-02-17percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystemsTejun Heo
Add __percpu sparse annotations to core subsystems. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-03-30cpumask: remove cpumask_t from coreRusty Russell
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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-02-20alloc_percpu: change percpu_ptr to per_cpu_ptrRusty Russell
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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: mingo@redhat.com Cc: lenb@kernel.org Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-05stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy.Heiko Carstens
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>
2009-01-01cpumask: convert rest of files in kernel/Rusty Russell
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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2008-11-16stop_machine: fix race with return value (fixes Bug #11989)Rusty Russell
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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-25Revert "Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls."Linus Torvalds
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 <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-22stop_machine: fix error code handling on multiple cpusHeiko Carstens
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 <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-10-22stop_machine: use workqueues instead of kernel threadsHeiko Carstens
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 <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-12stop_machine: remove unused variableLi Zefan
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>