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    stop_machine: Remove stop_cpus_lock and lg_double_lock/unlock() · e6253970
    Oleg Nesterov authored
    
    
    stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() use stop_cpus_lock to avoid the deadlock,
    we need to ensure that the stopper functions can't be queued "backwards"
    from one another. This doesn't look nice; if we use lglock then we do not
    really need stopper->lock, cpu_stop_queue_work() could use lg_local_lock()
    under local_irq_save().
    
    OTOH it would be even better to avoid lglock in stop_machine.c and remove
    lg_double_lock(). This patch adds "bool stop_cpus_in_progress" set/cleared
    by queue_stop_cpus_work(), and changes cpu_stop_queue_two_works() to busy
    wait until it is cleared.
    
    queue_stop_cpus_work() sets stop_cpus_in_progress = T lockless, but after
    it queues a work on CPU1 it must be visible to stop_two_cpus(CPU1, CPU2)
    which checks it under the same lock. And since stop_two_cpus() holds the
    2nd lock too, queue_stop_cpus_work() can not clear stop_cpus_in_progress
    if it is also going to queue a work on CPU2, it needs to take that 2nd
    lock to do this.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151121181148.GA433@redhat.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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