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| author | Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> | 2008-02-28 11:33:03 -0500 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-07-28 12:16:28 +1000 |
| commit | 5c2aed622571ac7c3c6ec182d6d3c318e4b45c8b (patch) | |
| tree | 0a3b422b16cd0725eebbe5047fd5482583279d8a /include/linux | |
| parent | 15bba37d62351749c3915add81f673b256952ee1 (diff) | |
stop_machine: add ALL_CPUS option
-allow stop_mahcine_run() to call a function on all cpus. Calling
stop_machine_run() with a 'ALL_CPUS' invokes this new behavior.
stop_machine_run() proceeds as normal until the calling cpu has
invoked 'fn'. Then, we tell all the other cpus to call 'fn'.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: akpm@osdl.org
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/stop_machine.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h index 5bfc553bdb2..18af011c13a 100644 --- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h +++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h @@ -8,11 +8,17 @@ #include <asm/system.h> #if defined(CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE) && defined(CONFIG_SMP) + +#define ALL_CPUS ~0U + /** * stop_machine_run: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function * @fn: the function to run * @data: the data ptr for the @fn() - * @cpu: the cpu to run @fn() on (or any, if @cpu == NR_CPUS. + * @cpu: if @cpu == n, run @fn() on cpu n + * if @cpu == NR_CPUS, run @fn() on any cpu + * if @cpu == ALL_CPUS, run @fn() first on the calling cpu, and then + * concurrently on all the other cpus * * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every other cpu, * each of which disables interrupts, and finally interrupts are disabled |