Provide a generic interface for setting up and tearing down percpu
threads.
On registration the threads for already online cpus are created and
started. On deregistration (modules) the threads are stoppped.
During hotplug operations the threads are created, started, parked and
unparked. The datastructure for registration provides a pointer to
percpu storage space and optional setup, cleanup, park, unpark
functions. These functions are called when the thread state changes.
Each implementation has to provide a function which is queried and
returns whether the thread should run and the thread function itself.
The core code handles all state transitions and avoids duplicated code
in the call sites.
[ paulmck: Preemption leak fix ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
percpu areas are already allocated during boot for each possible cpu.
percpu idle threads can be considered as an extension of the percpu areas,
and allocate them for each possible cpu during boot.
This will eliminate the need for workqueue based idle thread allocation.
In future we can move the idle thread area into the percpu area too.
[ tglx: Moved the loop into smpboot.c and added an error check when
the init code failed to allocate an idle thread for a cpu which
should be onlined ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Thomas Gleixner