Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls

This adds kernel/smp.c which contains helpers for IPI function calls. In
addition to supporting the existing smp_call_function() in a more efficient
manner, it also adds a more scalable variant called smp_call_function_single()
for calling a given function on a single CPU only.

The core of this is based on the x86-64 patch from Nick Piggin, lots of
changes since then. "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> has
contributed lots of fixes and suggestions as well. Also thanks to
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for reviewing RCU usage
and getting rid of the data allocation fallback deadlock.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index f7fb20021d4..1efcccff1bd 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
 #include <linux/start_kernel.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/profile.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
@@ -779,6 +780,7 @@ static void __init do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)
 {
         extern int spawn_ksoftirqd(void);
 
+        init_call_single_data();
         migration_init();
         spawn_ksoftirqd();
         if (!nosoftlockup)