From 3fc1f1e27a5b807791d72e5d992aa33b668a6626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 18:49:20 +0200 Subject: stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop 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: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Dimitri Sivanich --- kernel/module.c | 14 ++------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/module.c') diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 1016b75b026a..0838246d8c94 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -723,16 +723,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user, return -EFAULT; name[MODULE_NAME_LEN-1] = '\0'; - /* Create stop_machine threads since free_module relies on - * a non-failing stop_machine call. */ - ret = stop_machine_create(); - if (ret) - return ret; - - if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&module_mutex) != 0) { - ret = -EINTR; - goto out_stop; - } + if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&module_mutex) != 0) + return -EINTR; mod = find_module(name); if (!mod) { @@ -792,8 +784,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user, out: mutex_unlock(&module_mutex); -out_stop: - stop_machine_destroy(); return ret; } -- cgit v1.2.3