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Subject[tip:perf/core] x86: Use __stop_machine() in text_poke_smp()
Commit-ID:  3caa37519ccbb200c7fbbf6ff4fb306a30f29425
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/3caa37519ccbb200c7fbbf6ff4fb306a30f29425
Author: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:10:36 +0900
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:55:28 +0200

x86: Use __stop_machine() in text_poke_smp()

Use __stop_machine() in text_poke_smp() because the caller
must get online_cpus before calling text_poke_smp(), but
stop_machine() do it again. We don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101014031036.4100.83989.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index cb0e6d3..a36bb90 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -637,7 +637,8 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke_smp(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len)
tpp.len = len;
atomic_set(&stop_machine_first, 1);
wrote_text = 0;
- stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, NULL);
+ /* Use __stop_machine() because the caller already got online_cpus. */
+ __stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, NULL);
return addr;
}


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