stop_machine: use workqueues instead of kernel threads

Convert stop_machine to a workqueue based approach. Instead of using kernel
threads for stop_machine we now use a an rt workqueue to synchronize all
cpus.
This has the advantage that all needed per cpu threads are already created
when stop_machine gets called. And therefore a call to stop_machine won't
fail anymore. This is needed for s390 which needs a mechanism to synchronize
all cpus without allocating any memory.
As Rusty pointed out free_module() needs a non-failing stop_machine interface
as well.

As a side effect the stop_machine code gets simplified.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 70 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index af3c7cea258..0e688c6a1a6 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -37,9 +37,13 @@ struct stop_machine_data {
 /* Like num_online_cpus(), but hotplug cpu uses us, so we need this. */
 static unsigned int num_threads;
 static atomic_t thread_ack;
-static struct completion finished;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
 
+static struct workqueue_struct *stop_machine_wq;
+static struct stop_machine_data active, idle;
+static const cpumask_t *active_cpus;
+static void *stop_machine_work;
+
 static void set_state(enum stopmachine_state newstate)
 {
         /* Reset ack counter. */
@@ -51,21 +55,25 @@ static void set_state(enum stopmachine_state newstate)
 /* Last one to ack a state moves to the next state. */
 static void ack_state(void)
 {
-        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&thread_ack)) {
-                /* If we're the last one to ack the EXIT, we're finished. */
-                if (state == STOPMACHINE_EXIT)
-                        complete(&finished);
-                else
-                        set_state(state + 1);
-        }
+        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&thread_ack))
+                set_state(state + 1);
 }
 
-/* This is the actual thread which stops the CPU.  It exits by itself rather
- * than waiting for kthread_stop(), because it's easier for hotplug CPU. */
-static int stop_cpu(struct stop_machine_data *smdata)
+/* This is the actual function which stops the CPU. It runs
+ * in the context of a dedicated stopmachine workqueue. */
+static void stop_cpu(struct work_struct *unused)
 {
         enum stopmachine_state curstate = STOPMACHINE_NONE;
-
+        struct stop_machine_data *smdata = &idle;
+        int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+        if (!active_cpus) {
+                if (cpu == first_cpu(cpu_online_map))
+                        smdata = &active;
+        } else {
+                if (cpu_isset(cpu, *active_cpus))
+                        smdata = &active;
+        }
         /* Simple state machine */
         do {
                 /* Chill out and ensure we re-read stopmachine_state. */
@@ -90,7 +98,6 @@ static int stop_cpu(struct stop_machine_data *smdata)
         } while (curstate != STOPMACHINE_EXIT);
 
         local_irq_enable();
-        do_exit(0);
 }
 
 /* Callback for CPUs which aren't supposed to do anything. */
@@ -101,78 +108,34 @@ static int chill(void *unused)
 
 int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const cpumask_t *cpus)
 {
-        int i, err;
-        struct stop_machine_data active, idle;
-        struct task_struct **threads;
+        struct work_struct *sm_work;
+        int i;
 
+        /* Set up initial state. */
+        mutex_lock(&lock);
+        num_threads = num_online_cpus();
+        active_cpus = cpus;
         active.fn = fn;
         active.data = data;
         active.fnret = 0;
         idle.fn = chill;
         idle.data = NULL;
 
-        /* This could be too big for stack on large machines. */
-        threads = kcalloc(NR_CPUS, sizeof(threads[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
-        if (!threads)
-                return -ENOMEM;
-
-        /* Set up initial state. */
-        mutex_lock(&lock);
-        init_completion(&finished);
-        num_threads = num_online_cpus();
         set_state(STOPMACHINE_PREPARE);
 
-        for_each_online_cpu(i) {
-                struct stop_machine_data *smdata = &idle;
-                struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO-1 };
-
-                if (!cpus) {
-                        if (i == first_cpu(cpu_online_map))
-                                smdata = &active;
-                } else {
-                        if (cpu_isset(i, *cpus))
-                                smdata = &active;
-                }
-
-                threads[i] = kthread_create((void *)stop_cpu, smdata, "kstop%u",
-                                            i);
-                if (IS_ERR(threads[i])) {
-                        err = PTR_ERR(threads[i]);
-                        threads[i] = NULL;
-                        goto kill_threads;
-                }
-
-                /* Place it onto correct cpu. */
-                kthread_bind(threads[i], i);
-
-                /* Make it highest prio. */
-                if (sched_setscheduler_nocheck(threads[i], SCHED_FIFO, &param))
-                        BUG();
-        }
-
-        /* We've created all the threads.  Wake them all: hold this CPU so one
+        /* Schedule the stop_cpu work on all cpus: hold this CPU so one
          * doesn't hit this CPU until we're ready. */
         get_cpu();
-        for_each_online_cpu(i)
-                wake_up_process(threads[i]);
-
+        for_each_online_cpu(i) {
+                sm_work = percpu_ptr(stop_machine_work, i);
+                INIT_WORK(sm_work, stop_cpu);
+                queue_work_on(i, stop_machine_wq, sm_work);
+        }
         /* This will release the thread on our CPU. */
         put_cpu();
-        wait_for_completion(&finished);
+        flush_workqueue(stop_machine_wq);
         mutex_unlock(&lock);
-
-        kfree(threads);
-
         return active.fnret;
-
-kill_threads:
-        for_each_online_cpu(i)
-                if (threads[i])
-                        kthread_stop(threads[i]);
-        mutex_unlock(&lock);
-
-        kfree(threads);
-        return err;
 }
 
 int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const cpumask_t *cpus)
@@ -187,3 +150,11 @@ int stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, const cpumask_t *cpus)
         return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(stop_machine);
+
+static int __init stop_machine_init(void)
+{
+        stop_machine_wq = create_rt_workqueue("kstop");
+        stop_machine_work = alloc_percpu(struct work_struct);
+        return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(stop_machine_init);