Commit fc6f89dc authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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stop_machine: Improve kernel-doc function-header comments



Add more detail to the kernel-doc function-header comments for
stop_machine(), stop_machine_cpuslocked(), and stop_core_cpuslocked().

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 19272b37
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@@ -88,55 +88,73 @@ static inline void print_stop_info(const char *log_lvl, struct task_struct *task
#endif	/* CONFIG_SMP */

/*
 * stop_machine "Bogolock": stop the entire machine, disable
 * interrupts.  This is a very heavy lock, which is equivalent to
 * grabbing every spinlock (and more).  So the "read" side to such a
 * lock is anything which disables preemption.
 * stop_machine "Bogolock": stop the entire machine, disable interrupts.
 * This is a very heavy lock, which is equivalent to grabbing every raw
 * spinlock (and more).  So the "read" side to such a lock is anything
 * which disables preemption.
 */
#if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)

/**
 * stop_machine: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function
 * @fn: the function to run
 * @data: the data ptr for the @fn()
 * @cpus: the cpus to run the @fn() on (NULL = any online cpu)
 * @data: the data ptr to pass to @fn()
 * @cpus: the cpus to run @fn() on (NULL = run on each online CPU)
 *
 * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every cpu,
 * each of which disables interrupts.  The result is that no one is
 * holding a spinlock or inside any other preempt-disabled region when
 * @fn() runs.
 * Description: This causes a thread to be scheduled on every CPU, which
 * will run with interrupts disabled.  Each CPU specified by @cpus will
 * run @fn.  While @fn is executing, there will no other CPUs holding
 * a raw spinlock or running within any other type of preempt-disabled
 * region of code.
 *
 * This can be thought of as a very heavy write lock, equivalent to
 * grabbing every spinlock in the kernel.
 * When @cpus specifies only a single CPU, this can be thought of as
 * a reader-writer lock where readers disable preemption (for example,
 * by holding a raw spinlock) and where the insanely heavy writers run
 * @fn while also preventing any other CPU from doing any useful work.
 * These writers can also be thought of as having implicitly grabbed every
 * raw spinlock in the kernel.
 *
 * Protects against CPU hotplug.
 * When @fn is a no-op, this can be thought of as an RCU implementation
 * where readers again disable preemption and writers use stop_machine()
 * in place of synchronize_rcu(), albeit with orders of magnitude more
 * disruption than even that of synchronize_rcu_expedited().
 *
 * Although only one stop_machine() operation can proceed at a time,
 * the possibility of blocking in cpus_read_lock() means that the caller
 * cannot usefully rely on this serialization.
 *
 * Return: 0 if all invocations of @fn return zero.  Otherwise, the
 * value returned by an arbitrarily chosen member of the set of calls to
 * @fn that returned non-zero.
 */
int stop_machine(cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);

/**
 * stop_machine_cpuslocked: freeze the machine on all CPUs and run this function
 * @fn: the function to run
 * @data: the data ptr for the @fn()
 * @cpus: the cpus to run the @fn() on (NULL = any online cpu)
 * @data: the data ptr to pass to @fn()
 * @cpus: the cpus to run @fn() on (NULL = run on each online CPU)
 *
 * Same as above.  Avoids nested calls to cpus_read_lock().
 *
 * Same as above. Must be called from with in a cpus_read_lock() protected
 * region. Avoids nested calls to cpus_read_lock().
 * Context: Must be called from within a cpus_read_lock() protected region.
 */
int stop_machine_cpuslocked(cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *data, const struct cpumask *cpus);

/**
 * stop_core_cpuslocked: - stop all threads on just one core
 * @cpu: any cpu in the targeted core
 * @fn: the function to run
 * @data: the data ptr for @fn()
 * @fn: the function to run on each CPU in the core containing @cpu
 * @data: the data ptr to pass to @fn()
 *
 * Same as above, but instead of every CPU, only the logical CPUs of a
 * single core are affected.
 * Same as above, but instead of every CPU, only the logical CPUs of the
 * single core containing @cpu are affected.
 *
 * Context: Must be called from within a cpus_read_lock() protected region.
 *
 * Return: 0 if all executions of @fn returned 0, any non zero return
 * value if any returned non zero.
 * Return: 0 if all invocations of @fn return zero.  Otherwise, the
 * value returned by an arbitrarily chosen member of the set of calls to
 * @fn that returned non-zero.
 */
int stop_core_cpuslocked(unsigned int cpu, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *data);