linux/include
Heiko Carstens 9ea09af3bd stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy.
Introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. With this interface subsystems
that need a non-failing stop_machine environment can create the
stop_machine machine threads before actually calling stop_machine.
When the threads aren't needed anymore they can be killed with
stop_machine_destroy again.

When stop_machine gets called and the threads aren't present they
will be created and destroyed automatically. This restores the old
behaviour of stop_machine.

This patch also converts cpu hotplug to the new interface since it
is special: cpu_down calls __stop_machine instead of stop_machine.
However the kstop threads will only be created when stop_machine
gets called.

Changing the code so that the threads would be created automatically
on __stop_machine is currently not possible: when __stop_machine gets
called we hold cpu_add_remove_lock, which is the same lock that
create_rt_workqueue would take. So the workqueue needs to be created
before the cpu hotplug code locks cpu_add_remove_lock.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-05 08:40:14 +10:30
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acpi cpumask: convert shared_cpu_map in acpi_processor* structs to cpumask_var_t 2009-01-03 19:15:40 +01:00
asm-arm
asm-frv frv: define __fls 2009-01-03 16:14:05 +10:30
asm-generic Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-01-02 11:44:09 -08:00
asm-h8300
asm-m32r m32r: define __fls 2009-01-03 16:16:54 +10:30
asm-m68k m68k: define __fls 2009-01-01 10:12:18 +10:30
asm-mn10300 mn10300: define __fls 2009-01-03 16:19:03 +10:30
asm-xtensa xtensa: define __fls 2009-01-03 16:21:08 +10:30
crypto crypto: aes - Precompute tables 2008-12-25 11:05:13 +11:00
drm drm: Add a debug node for vblank state. 2008-12-29 17:47:27 +10:00
keys
linux stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. 2009-01-05 08:40:14 +10:30
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (10141): v4l2: debugging API changed to match against driver name instead of ID. 2009-01-02 17:11:52 -02:00
mtd
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2008-12-28 12:49:40 -08:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] fcoe: Fibre Channel over Ethernet 2008-12-29 11:24:33 -06:00
sound V4L/DVB (10135): v4l2: introduce v4l2_file_operations. 2009-01-02 17:11:12 -02:00
trace sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup() 2008-12-25 13:10:21 +01:00
video video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb deferred io support 2008-12-22 18:44:48 +09:00
xen xen: clean up asm/xen/hypervisor.h 2008-12-16 21:50:31 +01:00
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