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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>2006-01-08 01:00:43 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 20:12:40 -0800
commit15316ba81aee6775d6079fb46c66c801989e7d10 (patch)
treec6190bdcc6e15fd8b5657a5932313e296b475577 /include/linux
parent48db57f8ff10eb09ab887ccb6150b0da0c7be24e (diff)
[PATCH] add schedule_on_each_cpu()
swap migration's isolate_lru_page() currently uses an IPI to notify other processors that the lru caches need to be drained if the page cannot be found on the LRU. The IPI interrupt may interrupt a processor that is just processing lru requests and cause a race condition. This patch introduces a new function run_on_each_cpu() that uses the keventd() to run the LRU draining on each processor. Processors disable preemption when dealing the LRU caches (these are per processor) and thus executing LRU draining from another process is safe. Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> for finding this race condition. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/workqueue.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index ac39d04d027..86b11130023 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ extern int FASTCALL(schedule_work(struct work_struct *work));
extern int FASTCALL(schedule_delayed_work(struct work_struct *work, unsigned long delay));
extern int schedule_delayed_work_on(int cpu, struct work_struct *work, unsigned long delay);
+extern int schedule_on_each_cpu(void (*func)(void *info), void *info);
extern void flush_scheduled_work(void);
extern int current_is_keventd(void);
extern int keventd_up(void);