linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/8] cpu_hotplug: Introduce try_get_online

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Message-ID: <20080429130357.GH23562@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:33:57 +0530
From:	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] cpu_hotplug: Introduce try_get_online_cpus()

cpu_hotplug: Introduce try_get_online_cpus()

From: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>

Subsystems such as workqueues currently cannot use get_online_cpus()
since they deadlock with the workqueue CPU-Hotplug callback code.

For such cases, introduce a new API try_get_online_cpus() which
returns 0 when a cpu-hotplug operation is in progress. It behaves
like get_online_cpus() and returns 1 otherwise.

Based on the status of CPU-Hotplug, the subsystems can take appropriate
action.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
---

 include/linux/cpu.h |    2 ++
 kernel/cpu.c        |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h
index 0be8d65..d0be341 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpu.h
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ static inline void cpuhotplug_mutex_unlock(struct mutex *cpu_hp_mutex)
 }
 
 extern void get_online_cpus(void);
+extern int try_get_online_cpus(void);
 extern void put_online_cpus(void);
 #define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri) {				\
 	static struct notifier_block fn##_nb =			\
@@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ static inline void cpuhotplug_mutex_unlock(struct mutex *cpu_hp_mutex)
 
 #define get_online_cpus()	do { } while (0)
 #define put_online_cpus()	do { } while (0)
+static inline int try_get_online_cpus(void) { return 1; }
 #define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri)	do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
 /* These aren't inline functions due to a GCC bug. */
 #define register_hotcpu_notifier(nb)	({ (void)(nb); 0; })
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 8f1718f..52c1e4e 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -57,7 +57,29 @@ void __init cpu_hotplug_init(void)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+int try_get_online_cpus(void)
+{
+	spin_lock(&cpu_hotplug.lock);
+	if (cpu_hotplug.active_writer == current)
+		goto out_unlock;
+
+	if (likely(!cpu_hotplug.active_writer))
+		goto out_success;
+
+	if (cpu_hotplug.refcount)
+		goto out_success;
+
+	spin_unlock(&cpu_hotplug.lock);
+	return 0;
+
+out_success:
+	cpu_hotplug.refcount++;
+out_unlock:
+	spin_unlock(&cpu_hotplug.lock);
+	cpu_hotplug_acquire_read(&cpu_hotplug.dep_map, 0, 1, _THIS_IP_);
+	return 1;
 
+}
 void get_online_cpus(void)
 {
 	might_sleep();
-- 
Thanks and Regards
gautham
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