[PATCH] ARM: SMP: use a timing out completion for cpu hotplug
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Jan 20 05:03:24 EST 2012
Rather than open-coding the jiffy-based wait, and polling for the
secondary CPU to come online, use a completion instead. This
removes the need to poll, instead we will be notified when the
secondary CPU has initialized.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
---
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c | 17 ++++++-----------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 57db122..2b26dca 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ enum ipi_msg_type {
IPI_CPU_STOP,
};
+static DECLARE_COMPLETION(cpu_running);
+
int __cpuinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
{
struct cpuinfo_arm *ci = &per_cpu(cpu_data, cpu);
@@ -98,20 +100,12 @@ int __cpuinit __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu)
*/
ret = boot_secondary(cpu, idle);
if (ret == 0) {
- unsigned long timeout;
-
/*
* CPU was successfully started, wait for it
* to come online or time out.
*/
- timeout = jiffies + HZ;
- while (time_before(jiffies, timeout)) {
- if (cpu_online(cpu))
- break;
-
- udelay(10);
- barrier();
- }
+ wait_for_completion_timeout(&cpu_running,
+ msecs_to_jiffies(1000));
if (!cpu_online(cpu)) {
pr_crit("CPU%u: failed to come online\n", cpu);
@@ -300,9 +294,10 @@ asmlinkage void __cpuinit secondary_start_kernel(void)
/*
* OK, now it's safe to let the boot CPU continue. Wait for
* the CPU migration code to notice that the CPU is online
- * before we continue.
+ * before we continue - which happens after __cpu_up returns.
*/
set_cpu_online(cpu, true);
+ complete(&cpu_running);
/*
* Setup the percpu timer for this CPU.
--
1.7.4.4
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