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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2008-12-22 12:36:30 +0100
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-01-04 23:10:14 +0100
commit9ea09af3bd3090e8349ca2899ca2011bd94cda85 (patch)
tree36396347bb750a6aecb0771cfebf9887aaaae492 /kernel/stop_machine.c
parentparisc: fix module loading failure of large kernel modules (diff)
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stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy.
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/stop_machine.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/stop_machine.c55
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index 286c41722e8c..0cd415ee62a2 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ struct stop_machine_data {
static unsigned int num_threads;
static atomic_t thread_ack;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
-
+/* setup_lock protects refcount, stop_machine_wq and stop_machine_work. */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(setup_lock);
+/* Users of stop_machine. */
+static int refcount;
static struct workqueue_struct *stop_machine_wq;
static struct stop_machine_data active, idle;
static const cpumask_t *active_cpus;
@@ -109,6 +112,43 @@ static int chill(void *unused)
return 0;
}
+int stop_machine_create(void)
+{
+ mutex_lock(&setup_lock);
+ if (refcount)
+ goto done;
+ stop_machine_wq = create_rt_workqueue("kstop");
+ if (!stop_machine_wq)
+ goto err_out;
+ stop_machine_work = alloc_percpu(struct work_struct);
+ if (!stop_machine_work)
+ goto err_out;
+done:
+ refcount++;
+ mutex_unlock(&setup_lock);
+ return 0;
+
+err_out:
+ if (stop_machine_wq)
+ destroy_workqueue(stop_machine_wq);
+ mutex_unlock(&setup_lock);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(stop_machine_create);
+
+void stop_machine_destroy(void)
+{
+ mutex_lock(&setup_lock);
+ refcount--;
+ if (refcount)
+ goto done;
+ destroy_workqueue(stop_machine_wq);
+ free_percpu(stop_machine_work);
+done:
+ mutex_unlock(&setup_lock);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(stop_machine_destroy);
+
int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus)
{
struct work_struct *sm_work;
@@ -146,19 +186,14 @@ int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus)
{
int ret;
+ ret = stop_machine_create();
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
/* No CPUs can come up or down during this. */
get_online_cpus();
ret = __stop_machine(fn, data, cpus);
put_online_cpus();
-
+ stop_machine_destroy();
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(stop_machine);
-
-static int __init stop_machine_init(void)
-{
- stop_machine_wq = create_rt_workqueue("kstop");
- stop_machine_work = alloc_percpu(struct work_struct);
- return 0;
-}
-core_initcall(stop_machine_init);