aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/kernel/smp.c
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2009-11-18generic-ipi: Add smp_call_function_any()Rusty Russell
Andrew points out that acpi-cpufreq uses cpumask_any, when it really would prefer to use the same CPU if possible (to avoid an IPI). In general, this seems a good idea to offer. [ tglx: Documented selection preference and Inlined the UP case to avoid the copy of smp_call_function_single() and the extra EXPORT ] Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-10-23generic-ipi: Fix misleading smp_call_function*() descriptionSheng Yang
After commit:8969a5ede0f9e17da4b943712429aef2c9bcd82b "generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()", wait = 0 can be guaranteed. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <1256210374-25354-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipiRusty Russell
Now everyone is converted to arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask, remove the shim and the #defines. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-23generic-ipi: make struct call_function_data locklessXiao Guangrong
This patch can remove spinlock from struct call_function_data, the reasons are below: 1: add a new interface for cpumask named cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(), it can atomically test and clear specific cpu, we can use it instead of cpumask_test_cpu() and cpumask_clear_cpu() and no need data->lock to protect those in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(). 2: in smp_call_function_many(), after csd_lock() return, the current's cfd_data is deleted from call_function list, so it not have race between other cpus, then cfs_data is only used in smp_call_function_many() that must disable preemption and not from a hardware interrupthandler or from a bottom half handler to call, only the correspond cpu can use it, so it not have race in current cpu, no need cfs_data->lock to protect it. 3: after 1 and 2, cfs_data->lock is only use to protect cfs_data->refs in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(), so we can define cfs_data->refs to atomic_t, and no need cfs_data->lock any more. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use atomic_dec_return()] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-26Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/patH. Peter Anvin
Reason: Change to is_new_memtype_allowed() in x86/urgent Resolved semantic conflicts in: arch/x86/mm/pat.c arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-08-21generic-ipi: Allow cpus not yet online to call smp_call_function with irqs ↵Suresh Siddha
disabled Because of deadlock possiblities smp_call_function() is not allowed to be called with interrupts disabled. Add an exception for the cpu not yet online, as no one else can send smp call function interrupt to this cpu that is not yet online and as such deadlock condition is not possible. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-08-07generic-ipi: fix hotplug_cfd()Xiao Guangrong
Use CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, not CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG When hot-unpluging a cpu, it will leak memory allocated at cpu hotplug, but only if CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y, which is default to n. The bug was introduced by 8969a5ede0f9e17da4b943712429aef2c9bcd82b ("generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()"). Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-09cpumask: alloc zeroed cpumask for static cpumask_var_tsYinghai Lu
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used, they are cleared already. Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-13generic-ipi: eliminate WARN_ON()s during oops/panicIngo Molnar
Do not output smp-call related warnings in the oops/panic codepath. Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic-ipi: cleanupsIngo Molnar
Andrew pointed out that there's some small amount of style rot in kernel/smp.c. Clean it up. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAITPeter Zijlstra
Oleg noticed that we don't strictly need CSD_FLAG_WAIT, rework the code so that we can use CSD_FLAG_LOCK for both purposes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()Peter Zijlstra
Remove the use of kmalloc() from the smp_call_function_*() calls. Steven's generic-ipi patch (d7240b98: generic-ipi: use per cpu data for single cpu ipi calls) started the discussion on the use of kmalloc() in this code and fixed the smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) fallback case. In this patch we complete this by also providing means for the _many() call, which fully removes the need for kmalloc() in this code. The problem with the _many() call is that other cpus might still be observing our entry when we're done with it. It solved this by dynamically allocating data elements and RCU-freeing it. We solve it by using a single per-cpu entry which provides static storage and solves one half of the problem (avoiding referencing freed data). The other half, ensuring the queue iteration it still possible, is done by placing re-used entries at the head of the list. This means that if someone was still iterating that entry when it got moved, he will now re-visit the entries on the list he had already seen, but avoids skipping over entries like would have happened had we placed the new entry at the end. Furthermore, visiting entries twice is not a problem, since we remove our cpu from the entry's cpumask once its called. Many thanks to Oleg for his suggestions and him poking holes in my earlier attempts. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic IPI: simplify barriers and lockingNick Piggin
Simplify the barriers in generic remote function call interrupt code. Firstly, just unconditionally take the lock and check the list in the generic_call_function_single_interrupt IPI handler. As we've just taken an IPI here, the chances are fairly high that there will be work on the list for us, so do the locking unconditionally. This removes the tricky lockless list_empty check and dubious barriers. The change looks bigger than it is because it is just removing an outer loop. Secondly, clarify architecture specific IPI locking rules. Generic code has no tools to impose any sane ordering on IPIs if they go outside normal cache coherency, ergo the arch code must make them appear to obey cache coherency as a "memory operation" to initiate an IPI, and a "memory operation" to receive one. This way at least they can be reasoned about in generic code, and smp_mb used to provide ordering. The combination of these two changes means that explict barriers can be taken out of queue handling for the single case -- shared data is explicitly locked, and ipi ordering must conform to that, so no barriers needed. An extra barrier is needed in the many handler, so as to ensure we load the list element after the IPI is received. Does any architecture actually *need* these barriers? For the initiator I could see it, but for the handler I would be surprised. So the other thing we could do for simplicity is just to require that, rather than just matching with cache coherency, we just require a full barrier before generating an IPI, and after receiving an IPI. In which case, the smp_mb()s can go away. But just for now, we'll be on the safe side and use the barriers (they're in the slow case anyway). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30generic-ipi: use per cpu data for single cpu ipi callsSteven Rostedt
The smp_call_function can be passed a wait parameter telling it to wait for all the functions running on other CPUs to complete before returning, or to return without waiting. Unfortunately, this is currently just a suggestion and not manditory. That is, the smp_call_function can decide not to return and wait instead. The reason for this is because it uses kmalloc to allocate storage to send to the called CPU and that CPU will free it when it is done. But if we fail to allocate the storage, the stack is used instead. This means we must wait for the called CPU to finish before continuing. Unfortunatly, some callers do no abide by this hint and act as if the non-wait option is mandatory. The MTRR code for instance will deadlock if the smp_call_function is set to wait. This is because the smp_call_function will wait for the other CPUs to finish their called functions, but those functions are waiting on the caller to continue. This patch changes the generic smp_call_function code to use per cpu variables if the allocation of the data fails for a single CPU call. The smp_call_function_many will fall back to the smp_call_function_single if it fails its alloc. The smp_call_function_single is modified to not force the wait state. Since we now are using a single data per cpu we must synchronize the callers to prevent a second caller modifying the data before the first called IPI functions complete. To do so, I added a flag to the call_single_data called CSD_FLAG_LOCK. When the single CPU is called (which can be called when a many call fails an alloc), we set the LOCK bit on this per cpu data. When the caller finishes it clears the LOCK bit. The caller must wait till the LOCK bit is cleared before setting it. When it is cleared, there is no IPI function using it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-01cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits.: coreRusty Russell
Impact: cleanup In future, all cpumask ops will only be valid (in general) for bit numbers < nr_cpu_ids. So use that instead of NR_CPUS in iterators and other comparisons. This is always safe: no cpu number can be >= nr_cpu_ids, and nr_cpu_ids is initialized to NR_CPUS at boot. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2008-12-30cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: coreRusty Russell
Impact: new API to reduce stack usage We're weaning the core code off handing cpumask's around on-stack. This introduces arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-30cpumask: smp_call_function_many()Rusty Russell
Impact: Implementation change to remove cpumask_t from stack. Actually change smp_call_function_mask() to smp_call_function_many(). We avoid cpumasks on the stack in this version. (S390 has its own version, but that's going away apparently). We have to do some dancing to figure out if 0 or 1 other cpus are in the mask supplied and the online mask without allocating a tmp cpumask. It's still fairly cheap. We allocate the cpumask at the end of the call_function_data structure: if allocation fails we fallback to smp_call_function_single rather than using the baroque quiescing code (which needs a cpumask on stack). (Thanks to Hiroshi Shimamoto for spotting several bugs in previous versions!) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: npiggin@suse.de Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
2008-11-06generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placementSuresh Siddha
smp_mb() is needed (to make the memory operations visible globally) before sending the ipi on the sender and the receiver (on Alpha atleast) needs smp_read_barrier_depends() in the handler before reading the call_single_queue list in a lock-free fashion. On x86, x2apic mode register accesses for sending IPI's don't have serializing semantics. So the need for smp_mb() before sending the IPI becomes more critical in x2apic mode. Remove the unnecessary smp_mb() in csd_flag_wait(), as the presence of that smp_mb() doesn't mean anything on the sender, when the ipi receiver is not doing any thing special (like memory fence) after clearing the CSD_FLAG_WAIT. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-08-25smp: have smp_call_function_single() detect invalid CPUsH. Peter Anvin
Have smp_call_function_single() return invalid CPU indicies and return -ENXIO. This function is already executed inside a get_cpu()..put_cpu() which locks out CPU removal, so rather than having the higher layers doing another layer of locking to guard against unplugged CPUs do the test here. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-08-12generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask(), fixNick Piggin
> > Nick Piggin (1): > > generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in > > smp_call_function_mask() > > I'm still not 100% sure that I have this patch right... I might have seen > a lockup trace implicating the smp call function path... which may have > been due to some other problem or a different bug in the new call function > code, but if some more people can take a look at it before merging? OK indeed it did have a couple of bugs. Firstly, I wasn't freeing the data properly in the alloc && wait case. Secondly, I wasn't resetting CSD_FLAG_WAIT in the for each cpu loop (so only the first CPU would wait). After those fixes, the patch boots and runs with the kmalloc commented out (so it always executes the slowpath). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask()Nick Piggin
* Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote: > Found a OOPS on a big SMP box during an overnight reboot test with > upstream git. > > Suresh and I looked at the oops and looks like the root cause is in > generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() and smp_call_function_mask() with > wait parameter. > > The actual oops looked like > > [ 11.277260] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8802ffffffff > [ 11.277815] IP: [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff > [ 11.278155] PGD 202063 PUD 0 > [ 11.278576] Oops: 0010 [1] SMP > [ 11.279006] CPU 5 > [ 11.279336] Modules linked in: > [ 11.279752] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc2-00020-g685d87f #290 > [ 11.280039] RIP: 0010:[<ffff8802ffffffff>] [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff > [ 11.280692] RSP: 0018:ffff88027f1f7f70 EFLAGS: 00010086 > [ 11.280976] RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 > [ 11.281264] RDX: 0000000000004f4e RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 > [ 11.281624] RBP: ffff88027f1f7f98 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffff802509af > [ 11.281925] R10: ffff8800280c2780 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88027f097d48 > [ 11.282214] R13: ffff88027f097d70 R14: 0000000000000005 R15: ffff88027e571000 > [ 11.282502] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88027f1c3340(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 11.283096] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b > [ 11.283382] CR2: ffff8802ffffffff CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 > [ 11.283760] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > [ 11.284048] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > [ 11.284337] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88027f1f2000, task ffff88027f1f0640) > [ 11.284936] Stack: ffffffff80250963 0000000000000212 0000000000ee8c78 0000000000ee8a66 > [ 11.285802] ffff88027e571550 ffff88027f1f7fa8 ffffffff8021adb5 ffff88027f1f3e40 > [ 11.286599] ffffffff8020bdd6 ffff88027f1f3e40 <EOI> ffff88027f1f3ef8 0000000000000000 > [ 11.287120] Call Trace: > [ 11.287768] <IRQ> [<ffffffff80250963>] ? generic_smp_call_function_interrupt+0x61/0x12c > [ 11.288354] [<ffffffff8021adb5>] smp_call_function_interrupt+0x17/0x27 > [ 11.288744] [<ffffffff8020bdd6>] call_function_interrupt+0x66/0x70 > [ 11.289030] <EOI> [<ffffffff8024ab3b>] ? clockevents_notify+0x19/0x73 > [ 11.289380] [<ffffffff803b9b75>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x18b/0x1fa > [ 11.289760] [<ffffffff803b9b6b>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x181/0x1fa > [ 11.290051] [<ffffffff8053aeca>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x70/0xa2 > [ 11.290338] [<ffffffff80209f61>] ? cpu_idle+0x5f/0x7d > [ 11.290723] [<ffffffff8060224a>] ? start_secondary+0x14d/0x152 > [ 11.291010] > [ 11.291287] > [ 11.291654] Code: Bad RIP value. > [ 11.292041] RIP [<ffff8802ffffffff>] 0xffff8802ffffffff > [ 11.292380] RSP <ffff88027f1f7f70> > [ 11.292741] CR2: ffff8802ffffffff > [ 11.310951] ---[ end trace 137c54d525305f1c ]--- > > The problem is with the following sequence of events: > > - CPU A calls smp_call_function_mask() for CPU B with wait parameter > - CPU A sets up the call_function_data on the stack and does an rcu add to > call_function_queue > - CPU A waits until the WAIT flag is cleared > - CPU B gets the call function interrupt and starts going through the > call_function_queue > - CPU C also gets some other call function interrupt and starts going through > the call_function_queue > - CPU C, which is also going through the call_function_queue, starts referencing > CPU A's stack, as that element is still in call_function_queue > - CPU B finishes the function call that CPU A set up and as there are no other > references to it, rcu deletes the call_function_data (which was from CPU A > stack) > - CPU B sees the wait flag and just clears the flag (no call_rcu to free) > - CPU A which was waiting on the flag continues executing and the stack > contents change > > - CPU C is still in rcu_read section accessing the CPU A's stack sees > inconsistent call_funation_data and can try to execute > function with some random pointer, causing stack corruption for A > (by clearing the bits in mask field) and oops. Nice debugging work. I'd suggest something like the attached (boot tested) patch as the simple fix for now. I expect the benefits from the less synchronized, multiple-in-flight-data global queue will still outweigh the costs of dynamic allocations. But if worst comes to worst then we just go back to a globally synchronous one-at-a-time implementation, but that would be pretty sad! Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26Full conversion to early_initcall() interface, remove old interfaceEduard - Gabriel Munteanu
A previous patch added the early_initcall(), to allow a cleaner hooking of pre-SMP initcalls. Now we remove the older interface, converting all existing users to the new one. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-15generic ipi function calls: wait on alloc failure fallbackJeremy Fitzhardinge
When a GFP_ATOMIC allocation fails, it falls back to allocating the data on the stack and converting it to a waiting call. Make sure we actually wait in this case. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-15Merge branch 'generic-ipi-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'generic-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits) generic-ipi: more merge fallout generic-ipi: merge fix x86, visws: use mach-default/entry_arch.h x86, visws: fix generic-ipi build generic-ipi: fixlet generic-ipi: fix s390 build bug generic-ipi: fix linux-next tree build failure fix: "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument" fix: "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument" fix "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument" on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument sh: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls parisc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls mips: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls m32r: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls arm: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls alpha: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls ia64: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls powerpc: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls ... Fix trivial conflicts due to rcu updates in kernel/rcupdate.c manually
2008-06-27fix: "smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument"Ingo Molnar
fix: kernel/smp.c: In function 'smp_call_function_mask': kernel/smp.c:303: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function_single' Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-26smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argumentJens Axboe
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry interchangably. So get rid of it. Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26Add generic helpers for arch IPI function callsJens Axboe
This adds kernel/smp.c which contains helpers for IPI function calls. In addition to supporting the existing smp_call_function() in a more efficient manner, it also adds a more scalable variant called smp_call_function_single() for calling a given function on a single CPU only. The core of this is based on the x86-64 patch from Nick Piggin, lots of changes since then. "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> has contributed lots of fixes and suggestions as well. Also thanks to Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for reviewing RCU usage and getting rid of the data allocation fallback deadlock. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>