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    SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V2 2/5] stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
    On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 02:55:34PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
    > From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
    >
    > Make stop_machine() safe to call early in boot, before SMP has been
    > set up, by simply calling the callback function directly if there's
    > only one CPU online.
    >
    > [ Fixes from AKPM:
    > - add comment
    > - local_irq_flags, not save_flags
    > - also call hard_irq_disable() for systems which need it
    >
    > Tejun suggested using an explicit flag rather than just looking at
    > the online cpu count. ]
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
    > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
    > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    > ---
    > kernel/stop_machine.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
    > 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
    >
    > diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
    > index ba5070c..9c59d9e 100644
    > --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
    > +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
    > @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ struct cpu_stopper {
    > };
    >
    > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu_stopper, cpu_stopper);
    > +static bool stop_machine_initialized = false;

    __read_mostly?

    Thought it probably does not really matter that much in what section it
    is put in.


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