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authorGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>2008-01-25 15:08:01 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-25 15:08:01 -0500
commitd221938c049f4845da13c8593132595a6b9222a8 (patch)
tree8eae6c7095a3d7d31d7435befc30019540a4d13e /include/linux/cpu.h
parent6b2d7700266b9402e12824e11e0099ae6a4a6a79 (diff)
cpu-hotplug: refcount based cpu hotplug
This patch implements a Refcount + Waitqueue based model for cpu-hotplug. Now, a thread which wants to prevent cpu-hotplug, will bump up a global refcount and the thread which wants to perform a cpu-hotplug operation will block till the global refcount goes to zero. The readers, if any, during an ongoing cpu-hotplug operation are blocked until the cpu-hotplug operation is over. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> [For !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cpu.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cpu.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h
index 92f2029a34f3..a40247e4d462 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpu.h
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ static inline void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
83 83
84#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ 84#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
85extern struct sysdev_class cpu_sysdev_class; 85extern struct sysdev_class cpu_sysdev_class;
86extern void cpu_hotplug_init(void);
87extern void cpu_maps_update_begin(void);
88extern void cpu_maps_update_done(void);
86 89
87#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU 90#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
88/* Stop CPUs going up and down. */ 91/* Stop CPUs going up and down. */