smp, idle: Allocate idle thread for each possible cpu during boot
authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:08:50 +0000 (17:08 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 3 May 2012 17:32:34 +0000 (19:32 +0200)
commit3bb5d2ee396aabaa4e318f17e94d13e2ee0e5a88
tree723fd419cbbc6874b3303d11a439303f3c4ff46c
parent9a1347237492f273f84ec39962b5806c70b2806a
smp, idle: Allocate idle thread for each possible cpu during boot

percpu areas are already allocated during boot for each possible cpu.
percpu idle threads can be considered as an extension of the percpu areas,
and allocate them for each possible cpu during boot.

This will eliminate the need for workqueue based idle thread allocation.
In future we can move the idle thread area into the percpu area too.

[ tglx: Moved the loop into smpboot.c and added an error check when
  the init code failed to allocate an idle thread for a cpu which
  should be onlined ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: venki@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334966930.28674.245.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/cpu.c
kernel/smp.c
kernel/smpboot.c
kernel/smpboot.h