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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-04-20 13:05:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2012-04-26 12:06:09 +0200 |
| commit | 29d5e0476e1c4a513859e7858845ad172f560389 (patch) | |
| tree | b353eee6e4cdf57207e6eba5d80564a4e8811cc9 /arch/Kconfig | |
| parent | 38498a67aa2cf8c80754b8d304bfacc10bc582b5 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-29d5e0476e1c4a513859e7858845ad172f560389.tar.gz lwn-29d5e0476e1c4a513859e7858845ad172f560389.zip | |
smp: Provide generic idle thread allocation
All SMP architectures have magic to fork the idle task and to store it
for reusage when cpu hotplug is enabled. Provide a generic
infrastructure for it.
Create/reinit the idle thread for the cpu which is brought up in the
generic code and hand the thread pointer to the architecture code via
__cpu_up().
Note, that fork_idle() is called via a workqueue, because this
guarantees that the idle thread does not get a reference to a user
space VM. This can happen when the boot process did not bring up all
possible cpus and a later cpu_up() is initiated via the sysfs
interface. In that case fork_idle() would be called in the context of
the user space task and take a reference on the user space VM.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.102478630@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 684eb5af439d..4f0d0f7c8313 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS bool +config GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD + bool + config HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API bool help |