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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2015-11-21 19:11:48 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-09-22 15:25:55 +0200
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stop_machine: Remove stop_cpus_lock and lg_double_lock/unlock()
stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() use stop_cpus_lock to avoid the deadlock, we need to ensure that the stopper functions can't be queued "backwards" from one another. This doesn't look nice; if we use lglock then we do not really need stopper->lock, cpu_stop_queue_work() could use lg_local_lock() under local_irq_save(). OTOH it would be even better to avoid lglock in stop_machine.c and remove lg_double_lock(). This patch adds "bool stop_cpus_in_progress" set/cleared by queue_stop_cpus_work(), and changes cpu_stop_queue_two_works() to busy wait until it is cleared. queue_stop_cpus_work() sets stop_cpus_in_progress = T lockless, but after it queues a work on CPU1 it must be visible to stop_two_cpus(CPU1, CPU2) which checks it under the same lock. And since stop_two_cpus() holds the 2nd lock too, queue_stop_cpus_work() can not clear stop_cpus_in_progress if it is also going to queue a work on CPU2, it needs to take that 2nd lock to do this. 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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151121181148.GA433@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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