stop_machine: Introduce stop_two_cpus()

Introduce stop_two_cpus() in order to allow controlled swapping of two
tasks. It repurposes the stop_machine() state machine but only stops
the two cpus which we can do with on-stack structures and avoid
machine wide synchronization issues.

The ordering of CPUs is important to avoid deadlocks. If unordered then
two cpus calling stop_two_cpus on each other simultaneously would attempt
to queue in the opposite order on each CPU causing an AB-BA style deadlock.
By always having the lowest number CPU doing the queueing of works, we can
guarantee that works are always queued in the same order, and deadlocks
are avoided.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Implemented deadlock avoidance. ]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-38-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/stop_machine.h b/include/linux/stop_machine.h
index 3b5e910d14ca..d2abbdb8c6aa 100644
--- a/include/linux/stop_machine.h
+++ b/include/linux/stop_machine.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ struct cpu_stop_work {
 };
 
 int stop_one_cpu(unsigned int cpu, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg);
+int stop_two_cpus(unsigned int cpu1, unsigned int cpu2, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg);
 void stop_one_cpu_nowait(unsigned int cpu, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg,
 			 struct cpu_stop_work *work_buf);
 int stop_cpus(const struct cpumask *cpumask, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg);