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 <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 1016b75..0838246 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -723,16 +723,8 @@
return -EFAULT;
name[MODULE_NAME_LEN-1] = '\0';
- /* Create stop_machine threads since free_module relies on
- * a non-failing stop_machine call. */
- ret = stop_machine_create();
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&module_mutex) != 0) {
- ret = -EINTR;
- goto out_stop;
- }
+ if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&module_mutex) != 0)
+ return -EINTR;
mod = find_module(name);
if (!mod) {
@@ -792,8 +784,6 @@
out:
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
-out_stop:
- stop_machine_destroy();
return ret;
}
