kernel/linux.git/include/linux/stop_machine.h, branch v6.19.11

stop_machine: Improve kernel-doc function-header comments

2025-07-17T19:10:56+00:00

Add more detail to the kernel-doc function-header comments for stop_machine(), stop_machine_cpuslocked(), and stop_core_cpuslocked(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

cpumask: make core headers including cpumask_types.h where possible

2024-06-25T05:25:02+00:00

Now that cpumask types are split out to a separate smaller header, many frequently included core headers may switch to using it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240528005648.182376-7-yury.norov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yury Norov Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Daniel Lezcano Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ulf Hansson Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Yury Norov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

stop_machine: Add stop_core_cpuslocked() for per-core operations

2022-05-12T13:35:29+00:00

Hardware core level testing features require near simultaneous execution of WRMSR instructions on all threads of a core to initiate a test. Provide a customized cut down version of stop_machine_cpuslocked() that just operates on the threads of a single core. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220506225410.1652287-4-tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede

stop_machine: mark helpers __always_inline

2021-03-13T19:27:30+00:00

With clang-13, some functions only get partially inlined, with a specialized version referring to a global variable. This triggers a harmless build-time check for the intel-rng driver: WARNING: modpost: drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.o(.text+0xe): Section mismatch in reference from the function stop_machine() to the function .init.text:intel_rng_hw_init() The function stop_machine() references the function __init intel_rng_hw_init(). This is often because stop_machine lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of intel_rng_hw_init is wrong. In this instance, an easy workaround is to force the stop_machine() function to be inline, along with related interfaces that did not show the same behavior at the moment, but theoretically could. The combination of the two patches listed below triggers the behavior in clang-13, but individually these commits are correct. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210225130153.1956990-1-arnd@kernel.org Fixes: fe5595c07400 ("stop_machine: Provide stop_machine_cpuslocked()") Fixes: ee527cd3a20c ("Use stop_machine_run in the Intel RNG driver") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Valentin Schneider Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

stop_machine: Add function and caller debug info

2020-11-10T17:38:57+00:00

Crashes in stop-machine are hard to connect to the calling code, add a little something to help with that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201023102346.116513635@infradead.org

stop_machine: Make stop_cpus() static

2020-01-17T09:19:21+00:00

The function stop_cpus() is only used internally by the stop_machine for stop multiple cpus. Make it static. Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191228161912.24082-1-tiny.windzz@gmail.com

stop_machine: remove try_stop_cpus helper

2019-12-17T12:32:51+00:00

try_stop_cpus is not used after this: commit c190c3b16c0f ("rcu: Switch synchronize_sched_expedited() to stop_one_cpu()") So remove it. Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191214195107.26480-1-tiny.windzz@gmail.com

processor: get rid of cpu_relax_yield

2019-06-15T10:25:55+00:00

stop_machine is the only user left of cpu_relax_yield. Given that it now has special semantics which are tied to stop_machine introduce a weak stop_machine_yield function which architectures can override, and get rid of the generic cpu_relax_yield implementation. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

stop_machine: Provide stop_machine_cpuslocked()

2017-05-26T08:10:36+00:00

Some call sites of stop_machine() are within a get_online_cpus() protected region. stop_machine() calls get_online_cpus() as well, which is possible in the current implementation but prevents converting the hotplug locking to a percpu rwsem. Provide stop_machine_cpuslocked() to avoid nested calls to get_online_cpus(). Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081547.400700852@linutronix.de