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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-07-28 12:16:28 -0500 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-07-28 12:16:29 +1000 |
| commit | ffdb5976c47609c862917d4c186ecbb5706d2dda (patch) | |
| tree | 7a8485260922290080094adc25f3cbebd4ad506b /kernel/cpu.c | |
| parent | 5c2aed622571ac7c3c6ec182d6d3c318e4b45c8b (diff) | |
Simplify stop_machine
stop_machine creates a kthread which creates kernel threads. We can
create those threads directly and simplify things a little. Some care
must be taken with CPU hotunplug, which has special needs, but that code
seems more robust than it was in the past.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cpu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cpu.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 10ba5f1004a..cf79bb91137 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ static int __ref take_cpu_down(void *_param) static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen) { int err, nr_calls = 0; - struct task_struct *p; cpumask_t old_allowed, tmp; void *hcpu = (void *)(long)cpu; unsigned long mod = tasks_frozen ? CPU_TASKS_FROZEN : 0; @@ -250,19 +249,15 @@ static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen) cpu_clear(cpu, tmp); set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &tmp); - p = __stop_machine_run(take_cpu_down, &tcd_param, cpu); + err = __stop_machine_run(take_cpu_down, &tcd_param, cpu); - if (IS_ERR(p) || cpu_online(cpu)) { + if (err || cpu_online(cpu)) { /* CPU didn't die: tell everyone. Can't complain. */ if (raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_chain, CPU_DOWN_FAILED | mod, hcpu) == NOTIFY_BAD) BUG(); - if (IS_ERR(p)) { - err = PTR_ERR(p); - goto out_allowed; - } - goto out_thread; + goto out_allowed; } /* Wait for it to sleep (leaving idle task). */ @@ -279,8 +274,6 @@ static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen) check_for_tasks(cpu); -out_thread: - err = kthread_stop(p); out_allowed: set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &old_allowed); out_release: |