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1 #ifndef _LINUX_STOP_MACHINE
2 #define _LINUX_STOP_MACHINE
3 /* "Bogolock": stop the entire machine, disable interrupts. This is a
4 very heavy lock, which is equivalent to grabbing every spinlock
5 (and more). So the "read" side to such a lock is anything which
6 diables preeempt. */
7 #include <linux/config.h>
8 #include <linux/cpu.h>
9 #include <asm/system.h>
11 #if defined(CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
12 /**
13 * stop_machine_run: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function
14 * @fn: the function to run
15 * @data: the data ptr for the @fn()
16 * @cpu: the cpu to run @fn() on (or any, if @cpu == NR_CPUS.
18 * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every other cpu,
19 * each of which disables interrupts, and finally interrupts are disabled
20 * on the current CPU. The result is that noone is holding a spinlock
21 * or inside any other preempt-disabled region when @fn() runs.
23 * This can be thought of as a very heavy write lock, equivalent to
24 * grabbing every spinlock in the kernel. */
25 int stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data, unsigned int cpu);
27 /**
28 * __stop_machine_run: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function
29 * @fn: the function to run
30 * @data: the data ptr for the @fn
31 * @cpu: the cpu to run @fn on (or any, if @cpu == NR_CPUS.
33 * Description: This is a special version of the above, which returns the
34 * thread which has run @fn(): kthread_stop will return the return value
35 * of @fn(). Used by hotplug cpu.
37 struct task_struct *__stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
38 unsigned int cpu);
40 #else
42 static inline int stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *), void *data,
43 unsigned int cpu)
45 int ret;
46 local_irq_disable();
47 ret = fn(data);
48 local_irq_enable();
49 return ret;
51 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
52 #endif /* _LINUX_STOP_MACHINE */