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authorJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>2008-02-28 11:33:03 -0500
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-07-27 22:16:28 -0400
commit5c2aed622571ac7c3c6ec182d6d3c318e4b45c8b (patch)
tree0a3b422b16cd0725eebbe5047fd5482583279d8a /include/linux
parent15bba37d62351749c3915add81f673b256952ee1 (diff)
stop_machine: add ALL_CPUS option
-allow stop_mahcine_run() to call a function on all cpus. Calling stop_machine_run() with a 'ALL_CPUS' invokes this new behavior. stop_machine_run() proceeds as normal until the calling cpu has invoked 'fn'. Then, we tell all the other cpus to call 'fn'. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> CC: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> CC: mingo@elte.hu CC: akpm@osdl.org
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/stop_machine.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h
index 5bfc553bdb21..18af011c13af 100644
--- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h
+++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h
@@ -8,11 +8,17 @@
8#include <asm/system.h> 8#include <asm/system.h>
9 9
10#if defined(CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE) && defined(CONFIG_SMP) 10#if defined(CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
11
12#define ALL_CPUS ~0U
13
11/** 14/**
12 * stop_machine_run: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function 15 * stop_machine_run: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function
13 * @fn: the function to run 16 * @fn: the function to run
14 * @data: the data ptr for the @fn() 17 * @data: the data ptr for the @fn()
15 * @cpu: the cpu to run @fn() on (or any, if @cpu == NR_CPUS. 18 * @cpu: if @cpu == n, run @fn() on cpu n
19 * if @cpu == NR_CPUS, run @fn() on any cpu
20 * if @cpu == ALL_CPUS, run @fn() first on the calling cpu, and then
21 * concurrently on all the other cpus
16 * 22 *
17 * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every other cpu, 23 * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every other cpu,
18 * each of which disables interrupts, and finally interrupts are disabled 24 * each of which disables interrupts, and finally interrupts are disabled