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>
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>
Instead of a "cpu" arg with magic values NR_CPUS (any cpu) and ~0 (all
cpus), pass a cpumask_t. Allow NULL for the common case (where we
don't care which CPU the function is run on): temporary cpumask_t's
are usually considered bad for stack space.
This deprecates stop_machine_run, to be removed soon when all the
callers are dead.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
stop_machine creates a kthread which creates kernel threads. We can
create those threads directly and simplify things a little. Some care
must be taken with CPU hotunplug, which has special needs, but that code
seems more robust than it was in the past.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
-allow stop_mahcine_run() to call a function on all cpus. Calling
stop_machine_run() with a 'ALL_CPUS' invokes this new behavior.
stop_machine_run() proceeds as normal until the calling cpu has
invoked 'fn'. Then, we tell all the other cpus to call 'fn'.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: akpm@osdl.org
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Heiko Carstens
Rusty Russell
Jason Baron
David Woodhouse
Linus Torvalds