stop_machine: Introduce stop_two_cpus()
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 7 Oct 2013 10:29:15 +0000 (11:29 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:40:45 +0000 (12:40 +0200)
commit1be0bd77c5dd7c903f46abf52f9a3650face3c1d
treee8b2a6c742951e8a9f98a53a285ab85b79437e4d
parent25cbbef1924299249756bc4030fcb2436c019813
stop_machine: Introduce stop_two_cpus()

Introduce stop_two_cpus() in order to allow controlled swapping of two
tasks. It repurposes the stop_machine() state machine but only stops
the two cpus which we can do with on-stack structures and avoid
machine wide synchronization issues.

The ordering of CPUs is important to avoid deadlocks. If unordered then
two cpus calling stop_two_cpus on each other simultaneously would attempt
to queue in the opposite order on each CPU causing an AB-BA style deadlock.
By always having the lowest number CPU doing the queueing of works, we can
guarantee that works are always queued in the same order, and deadlocks
are avoided.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Implemented deadlock avoidance. ]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-38-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/stop_machine.h
kernel/stop_machine.c