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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/stop_machine.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/stop_machine.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h index 18af011c13a..36c2c7284eb 100644 --- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h +++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h @@ -17,13 +17,12 @@ * @data: the data ptr for the @fn() * @cpu: if @cpu == n, run @fn() on cpu n * if @cpu == NR_CPUS, run @fn() on any cpu - * if @cpu == ALL_CPUS, run @fn() first on the calling cpu, and then - * concurrently on all the other cpus + * if @cpu == ALL_CPUS, run @fn() on every online CPU. * - * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every other cpu, - * each of which disables interrupts, and finally interrupts are disabled - * on the current CPU. The result is that noone is holding a spinlock - * or inside any other preempt-disabled region when @fn() runs. + * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every cpu, + * each of which disables interrupts. The result is that noone is + * holding a spinlock or inside any other preempt-disabled region when + * @fn() runs. * * This can be thought of as a very heavy write lock, equivalent to * grabbing every spinlock in the kernel. */ @@ -35,13 +34,10 @@ int stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, unsigned int cpu); * @data: the data ptr for the @fn * @cpu: the cpu to run @fn on (or any, if @cpu == NR_CPUS. * - * Description: This is a special version of the above, which returns the - * thread which has run @fn(): kthread_stop will return the return value - * of @fn(). Used by hotplug cpu. + * Description: This is a special version of the above, which assumes cpus + * won't come or go while it's being called. Used by hotplug cpu. */ -struct task_struct *__stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, - unsigned int cpu); - +int __stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, unsigned int cpu); #else static inline int stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, |