Re: [PATCH RFC] stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficientto call early

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 04:32:40PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > As others have pointed out, you'll need to call both local and hardirq
> > disables.  Also, I think the description and the code are a bit
> > misleading.  How aobut setting cpu_stop_initialized in cpu_stop_init()
> > and testing it from __stop_machine() instead?  I think it would be
> > better to keep the behavior as uniform as possible once things are up
> > and running.
> 
> Yes, I was wondering about that.  Do you think the patch (with irq fixes
> in place) would affect the behaviour of an SMP kernel running UP?

I can't think of anything which could go wrong from the top of my head
but there's no reason to risk subtle issues when the alternative isn't
difficult.

> diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
> index f5855fe3..70b3be4 100644
> --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
> +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct cpu_stopper {
>  };
>  
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_stopper, cpu_stopper);
> +static bool stop_machine_initialized = false;
>  
>  static void cpu_stop_init_done(struct cpu_stop_done *done, unsigned int nr_todo)
>  {
> @@ -386,6 +387,8 @@ static int __init cpu_stop_init(void)
>  	cpu_stop_cpu_callback(&cpu_stop_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE, bcpu);
>  	register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_stop_cpu_notifier);
>  
> +	stop_machine_initialized = true;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  early_initcall(cpu_stop_init);
> @@ -485,7 +488,7 @@ int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus)
>  					    .num_threads = num_online_cpus(),
>  					    .active_cpus = cpus };
>  
> -	if (smdata.num_threads == 1) {
> +	if (!stop_machine_initialized) {

Yeah, this looks good to me.  You might want to add
WARN_ON_ONCE(smdata.num_threads != 1) inside if {} tho.

Thank you.

-- 
tejun
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