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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-14 14:58:01 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-14 14:58:01 +0200
commit51ca3c679194e7435c25b8e77b0a73c597e41ae9 (patch)
treea681dca369607ab0f371d5246b0f75140b860a8a /kernel/smp.c
parentb55793f7528ce1b73c25b3ac8a86a6cda2a0f9a4 (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/core
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/smp.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/smp.c58
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index 96fc7c0edc5..782e2b93e46 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ void generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(void)
*/
smp_wmb();
data->csd.flags &= ~CSD_FLAG_WAIT;
- } else
+ }
+ if (data->csd.flags & CSD_FLAG_ALLOC)
call_rcu(&data->rcu_head, rcu_free_call_data);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -260,6 +261,42 @@ void __smp_call_function_single(int cpu, struct call_single_data *data)
generic_exec_single(cpu, data);
}
+/* Dummy function */
+static void quiesce_dummy(void *unused)
+{
+}
+
+/*
+ * Ensure stack based data used in call function mask is safe to free.
+ *
+ * This is needed by smp_call_function_mask when using on-stack data, because
+ * a single call function queue is shared by all CPUs, and any CPU may pick up
+ * the data item on the queue at any time before it is deleted. So we need to
+ * ensure that all CPUs have transitioned through a quiescent state after
+ * this call.
+ *
+ * This is a very slow function, implemented by sending synchronous IPIs to
+ * all possible CPUs. For this reason, we have to alloc data rather than use
+ * stack based data even in the case of synchronous calls. The stack based
+ * data is then just used for deadlock/oom fallback which will be very rare.
+ *
+ * If a faster scheme can be made, we could go back to preferring stack based
+ * data -- the data allocation/free is non-zero cost.
+ */
+static void smp_call_function_mask_quiesce_stack(cpumask_t mask)
+{
+ struct call_single_data data;
+ int cpu;
+
+ data.func = quiesce_dummy;
+ data.info = NULL;
+
+ for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, mask) {
+ data.flags = CSD_FLAG_WAIT;
+ generic_exec_single(cpu, &data);
+ }
+}
+
/**
* smp_call_function_mask(): Run a function on a set of other CPUs.
* @mask: The set of cpus to run on.
@@ -285,6 +322,7 @@ int smp_call_function_mask(cpumask_t mask, void (*func)(void *), void *info,
cpumask_t allbutself;
unsigned long flags;
int cpu, num_cpus;
+ int slowpath = 0;
/* Can deadlock when called with interrupts disabled */
WARN_ON(irqs_disabled());
@@ -306,15 +344,16 @@ int smp_call_function_mask(cpumask_t mask, void (*func)(void *), void *info,
return smp_call_function_single(cpu, func, info, wait);
}
- if (!wait) {
- data = kmalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (data)
- data->csd.flags = CSD_FLAG_ALLOC;
- }
- if (!data) {
+ data = kmalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (data) {
+ data->csd.flags = CSD_FLAG_ALLOC;
+ if (wait)
+ data->csd.flags |= CSD_FLAG_WAIT;
+ } else {
data = &d;
data->csd.flags = CSD_FLAG_WAIT;
wait = 1;
+ slowpath = 1;
}
spin_lock_init(&data->lock);
@@ -331,8 +370,11 @@ int smp_call_function_mask(cpumask_t mask, void (*func)(void *), void *info,
arch_send_call_function_ipi(mask);
/* optionally wait for the CPUs to complete */
- if (wait)
+ if (wait) {
csd_flag_wait(&data->csd);
+ if (unlikely(slowpath))
+ smp_call_function_mask_quiesce_stack(mask);
+ }
return 0;
}