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    stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. · 9ea09af3
    Heiko Carstens 提交于
    Introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. With this interface subsystems
    that need a non-failing stop_machine environment can create the
    stop_machine machine threads before actually calling stop_machine.
    When the threads aren't needed anymore they can be killed with
    stop_machine_destroy again.
    
    When stop_machine gets called and the threads aren't present they
    will be created and destroyed automatically. This restores the old
    behaviour of stop_machine.
    
    This patch also converts cpu hotplug to the new interface since it
    is special: cpu_down calls __stop_machine instead of stop_machine.
    However the kstop threads will only be created when stop_machine
    gets called.
    
    Changing the code so that the threads would be created automatically
    on __stop_machine is currently not possible: when __stop_machine gets
    called we hold cpu_add_remove_lock, which is the same lock that
    create_rt_workqueue would take. So the workqueue needs to be created
    before the cpu hotplug code locks cpu_add_remove_lock.
    Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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