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authorIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>2009-12-01 11:47:15 +0000
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>2009-12-03 11:14:56 -0800
commitb4606f2165153833247823e8c04c5e88cb3d298b (patch)
treeccbfa5eec0ea6c39f34de45ee1f0665288d6c1f1 /drivers/xen
parent65f63384b391bf4d384327d8a7c6de9860290b5c (diff)
xen: explicitly create/destroy stop_machine workqueues outside suspend/resume region.
I have observed cases where the implicit stop_machine_destroy() done by stop_machine() hangs while destroying the workqueues, specifically in kthread_stop(). This seems to be because timer ticks are not restarted until after stop_machine() returns. Fortunately stop_machine provides a facility to pre-create/post-destroy the workqueues so use this to ensure that workqueues are only destroyed after everything is really up and running again. I only actually observed this failure with 2.6.30. It seems that newer kernels are somehow more robust against doing kthread_stop() without timer interrupts (I tried some backports of some likely looking candidates but did not track down the commit which added this robustness). However this change seems like a reasonable belt&braces thing to do. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen')
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/manage.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/manage.c b/drivers/xen/manage.c
index 2fb7d39b814..c4997930afc 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/manage.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/manage.c
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ static void do_suspend(void)
shutting_down = SHUTDOWN_SUSPEND;
+ err = stop_machine_create();
+ if (err) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "xen suspend: failed to setup stop_machine %d\n", err);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
/* If the kernel is preemptible, we need to freeze all the processes
to prevent them from being in the middle of a pagetable update
@@ -86,7 +92,7 @@ static void do_suspend(void)
err = freeze_processes();
if (err) {
printk(KERN_ERR "xen suspend: freeze failed %d\n", err);
- goto out;
+ goto out_destroy_sm;
}
#endif
@@ -129,7 +135,11 @@ out_resume:
out_thaw:
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
thaw_processes();
+
+out_destroy_sm:
#endif
+ stop_machine_destroy();
+
out:
shutting_down = SHUTDOWN_INVALID;
}