smp: Provide generic idle thread allocation

All SMP architectures have magic to fork the idle task and to store it
for reusage when cpu hotplug is enabled. Provide a generic
infrastructure for it.

Create/reinit the idle thread for the cpu which is brought up in the
generic code and hand the thread pointer to the architecture code via
__cpu_up().

Note, that fork_idle() is called via a workqueue, because this
guarantees that the idle thread does not get a reference to a user
space VM. This can happen when the boot process did not bring up all
possible cpus and a later cpu_up() is initiated via the sysfs
interface. In that case fork_idle() would be called in the context of
the user space task and take a reference on the user space VM.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.102478630@linutronix.de

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.h b/kernel/smpboot.h
index d88e77165086..7943bbbab917 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.h
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.h
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 #ifndef SMPBOOT_H
 #define SMPBOOT_H
 
+struct task_struct;
+
 int smpboot_prepare(unsigned int cpu);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
+struct task_struct *idle_thread_get(unsigned int cpu);
+void idle_thread_set_boot_cpu(void);
+#else
+static inline struct task_struct *idle_thread_get(unsigned int cpu) { return NULL; }
+static inline void idle_thread_set_boot_cpu(void) { }
+#endif
+
 #endif