schedule_on_each_cpu(): use preempt_disable()
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Wed, 9 May 2007 09:33:50 +0000 (02:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 9 May 2007 19:30:50 +0000 (12:30 -0700)
We take workqueue_mutex in there to keep CPU hotplug away.  But
preempt_disable() will suffice for that.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/workqueue.c

index b6fa5e6..1ea4bcb 100644 (file)
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ int schedule_on_each_cpu(work_func_t func)
        if (!works)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-       mutex_lock(&workqueue_mutex);
+       preempt_disable();              /* CPU hotplug */
        for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
                struct work_struct *work = per_cpu_ptr(works, cpu);
 
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ int schedule_on_each_cpu(work_func_t func)
                set_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING, work_data_bits(work));
                __queue_work(per_cpu_ptr(keventd_wq->cpu_wq, cpu), work);
        }
-       mutex_unlock(&workqueue_mutex);
+       preempt_enable();
        flush_workqueue(keventd_wq);
        free_percpu(works);
        return 0;