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>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 53 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index ed157698180..e1a797e028a 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -6,64 +6,42 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
-#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 #include "smpboot.h"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
-struct create_idle {
-	struct work_struct	work;
-	struct task_struct	*idle;
-	struct completion	done;
-	unsigned int cpu;
-};
-
-static void __cpuinit do_fork_idle(struct work_struct *work)
-{
-	struct create_idle *c = container_of(work, struct create_idle, work);
-
-	c->idle = fork_idle(c->cpu);
-	complete(&c->done);
-}
-
-static struct task_struct * __cpuinit idle_thread_create(unsigned int cpu)
-{
-	struct create_idle c_idle = {
-		.cpu	= cpu,
-		.done	= COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(c_idle.done),
-	};
-
-	INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&c_idle.work, do_fork_idle);
-	schedule_work(&c_idle.work);
-	wait_for_completion(&c_idle.done);
-	destroy_work_on_stack(&c_idle.work);
-	return c_idle.idle;
-}
-
 /*
  * For the hotplug case we keep the task structs around and reuse
  * them.
  */
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, idle_threads);
 
-static inline struct task_struct *get_idle_for_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
+struct task_struct * __cpuinit idle_thread_get(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct task_struct *tsk = per_cpu(idle_threads, cpu);
 
 	if (!tsk)
-		return idle_thread_create(cpu);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	init_idle(tsk, cpu);
 	return tsk;
 }
 
-struct task_struct * __cpuinit idle_thread_get(unsigned int cpu)
+void __init idle_thread_set_boot_cpu(void)
 {
-	return per_cpu(idle_threads, cpu);
+	per_cpu(idle_threads, smp_processor_id()) = current;
 }
 
-void __init idle_thread_set_boot_cpu(void)
+static inline void idle_init(unsigned int cpu)
 {
-	per_cpu(idle_threads, smp_processor_id()) = current;
+	struct task_struct *tsk = per_cpu(idle_threads, cpu);
+
+	if (!tsk) {
+		tsk = fork_idle(cpu);
+		if (IS_ERR(tsk))
+			pr_err("SMP: fork_idle() failed for CPU %u\n", cpu);
+		else
+			per_cpu(idle_threads, cpu) = tsk;
+	}
 }
 
 /**
@@ -72,25 +50,13 @@ void __init idle_thread_set_boot_cpu(void)
  *
  * Creates the thread if it does not exist.
  */
-static int __cpuinit idle_thread_init(unsigned int cpu)
+void __init idle_threads_init(void)
 {
-	struct task_struct *idle = get_idle_for_cpu(cpu);
+	unsigned int cpu;
 
-	if (IS_ERR(idle)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "failed fork for CPU %u\n", cpu);
-		return PTR_ERR(idle);
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		if (cpu != smp_processor_id())
+			idle_init(cpu);
 	}
-	per_cpu(idle_threads, cpu) = idle;
-	return 0;
 }
-#else
-static inline int idle_thread_init(unsigned int cpu) { return 0; }
 #endif
-
-/**
- * smpboot_prepare - generic smpboot preparation
- */
-int __cpuinit smpboot_prepare(unsigned int cpu)
-{
-	return idle_thread_init(cpu);
-}