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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-04-26 12:06:09 +0200
commit29d5e0476e1c4a513859e7858845ad172f560389 (patch)
treeb353eee6e4cdf57207e6eba5d80564a4e8811cc9 /kernel/smpboot.c
parent38498a67aa2cf8c80754b8d304bfacc10bc582b5 (diff)
downloadlinux-29d5e0476e1c4a513859e7858845ad172f560389.tar.bz2
smp: Provide generic idle thread allocation
All SMP architectures have magic to fork the idle task and to store it for reusage when cpu hotplug is enabled. Provide a generic infrastructure for it. Create/reinit the idle thread for the cpu which is brought up in the generic code and hand the thread pointer to the architecture code via __cpu_up(). Note, that fork_idle() is called via a workqueue, because this guarantees that the idle thread does not get a reference to a user space VM. This can happen when the boot process did not bring up all possible cpus and a later cpu_up() is initiated via the sysfs interface. In that case fork_idle() would be called in the context of the user space task and take a reference on the user space VM. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: x86@kernel.org Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.102478630@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/smpboot.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/smpboot.c84
1 files changed, 83 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index 6dae6a3d2d59..ed1576981801 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1,14 +1,96 @@
/*
* Common SMP CPU bringup/teardown functions
*/
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include "smpboot.h"
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
+struct create_idle {
+ struct work_struct work;
+ struct task_struct *idle;
+ struct completion done;
+ unsigned int cpu;
+};
+
+static void __cpuinit do_fork_idle(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct create_idle *c = container_of(work, struct create_idle, work);
+
+ c->idle = fork_idle(c->cpu);
+ complete(&c->done);
+}
+
+static struct task_struct * __cpuinit idle_thread_create(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+ struct create_idle c_idle = {
+ .cpu = cpu,
+ .done = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(c_idle.done),
+ };
+
+ INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&c_idle.work, do_fork_idle);
+ schedule_work(&c_idle.work);
+ wait_for_completion(&c_idle.done);
+ destroy_work_on_stack(&c_idle.work);
+ return c_idle.idle;
+}
+
+/*
+ * For the hotplug case we keep the task structs around and reuse
+ * them.
+ */
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, idle_threads);
+
+static inline struct task_struct *get_idle_for_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+ struct task_struct *tsk = per_cpu(idle_threads, cpu);
+
+ if (!tsk)
+ return idle_thread_create(cpu);
+ init_idle(tsk, cpu);
+ return tsk;
+}
+
+struct task_struct * __cpuinit idle_thread_get(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+ return per_cpu(idle_threads, cpu);
+}
+
+void __init idle_thread_set_boot_cpu(void)
+{
+ per_cpu(idle_threads, smp_processor_id()) = current;
+}
+
+/**
+ * idle_thread_init - Initialize the idle thread for a cpu
+ * @cpu: The cpu for which the idle thread should be initialized
+ *
+ * Creates the thread if it does not exist.
+ */
+static int __cpuinit idle_thread_init(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+ struct task_struct *idle = get_idle_for_cpu(cpu);
+
+ if (IS_ERR(idle)) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "failed fork for CPU %u\n", cpu);
+ return PTR_ERR(idle);
+ }
+ per_cpu(idle_threads, cpu) = idle;
+ return 0;
+}
+#else
+static inline int idle_thread_init(unsigned int cpu) { return 0; }
+#endif
+
/**
* smpboot_prepare - generic smpboot preparation
*/
int __cpuinit smpboot_prepare(unsigned int cpu)
{
- return 0;
+ return idle_thread_init(cpu);
}