From 3fc1f1e27a5b807791d72e5d992aa33b668a6626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 18:49:20 +0200 Subject: stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop 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 Acked-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Dimitri Sivanich --- include/linux/stop_machine.h | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/stop_machine.h') diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h index efcbd6c..0e552e7 100644 --- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h +++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h @@ -67,23 +67,6 @@ int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus); */ int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus); -/** - * stop_machine_create: create all stop_machine threads - * - * Description: This causes all stop_machine threads to be created before - * stop_machine actually gets called. This can be used by subsystems that - * need a non failing stop_machine infrastructure. - */ -int stop_machine_create(void); - -/** - * stop_machine_destroy: destroy all stop_machine threads - * - * Description: This causes all stop_machine threads which were created with - * stop_machine_create to be destroyed again. - */ -void stop_machine_destroy(void); - #else static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, @@ -96,8 +79,5 @@ static inline int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, return ret; } -static inline int stop_machine_create(void) { return 0; } -static inline void stop_machine_destroy(void) { } - #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ #endif /* _LINUX_STOP_MACHINE */ -- cgit v1.1