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    stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop · 3fc1f1e2
    Tejun Heo authored
    
    
    Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop.  As cpu stoppers are
    guaranteed to be available for all online cpus,
    stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed.
    
    With resource management and synchronization handled by cpu_stop, the
    new implementation is much simpler.  Asking the cpu_stop to execute
    the stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug
    disabled is enough.
    
    stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources
    anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct
    stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are
    removed.
    
    The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as
    necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very
    large machines.  According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic
    creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very
    large machines.  cpu_stop resources are preallocated for all online
    cpus and should have the same effect.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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