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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-05-06 18:49:21 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-05-06 18:49:21 +0200
commit969c79215a35b06e5e3efe69b9412f858df7856c (patch)
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sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop
Currently migration_thread is serving three purposes - migration pusher, context to execute active_load_balance() and forced context switcher for expedited RCU synchronize_sched. All three roles are hardcoded into migration_thread() and determining which job is scheduled is slightly messy. This patch kills migration_thread and replaces all three uses with cpu_stop. The three different roles of migration_thread() are splitted into three separate cpu_stop callbacks - migration_cpu_stop(), active_load_balance_cpu_stop() and synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop() - and each use case now simply asks cpu_stop to execute the callback as necessary. synchronize_sched_expedited() was implemented with private preallocated resources and custom multi-cpu queueing and waiting logic, both of which are provided by cpu_stop. synchronize_sched_expedited_count is made atomic and all other shared resources along with the mutex are dropped. synchronize_sched_expedited() also implemented a check to detect cases where not all the callback got executed on their assigned cpus and fall back to synchronize_sched(). If called with cpu hotplug blocked, cpu_stop already guarantees that and the condition cannot happen; otherwise, stop_machine() would break. However, this patch preserves the paranoid check using a cpumask to record on which cpus the stopper ran so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually goes wrong theree. Because the internal execution state is no longer visible, rcu_expedited_torture_stats() is removed. This patch also renames cpu_stop threads to from "stopper/%d" to "migration/%d". The names of these threads ultimately don't matter and there's no reason to make unnecessary userland visible changes. With this patch applied, stop_machine() and sched now share the same resources. stop_machine() is faster without wasting any resources and sched migration users are much cleaner. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/stop_machine.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/stop_machine.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index 884c7a1afeed..5b20141a5ec1 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int __cpuinit cpu_stop_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
BUG_ON(stopper->thread || stopper->enabled ||
!list_empty(&stopper->works));
- p = kthread_create(cpu_stopper_thread, stopper, "stopper/%d",
+ p = kthread_create(cpu_stopper_thread, stopper, "migration/%d",
cpu);
if (IS_ERR(p))
return NOTIFY_BAD;