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    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop · 3fc1f1e2
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      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: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
      3fc1f1e2
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