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| author | Marc Zyngier | 2017-08-01 09:02:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar | 2017-08-10 12:28:59 +0200 |
| commit | 5a40527f8f0798553764fc8db4111d7d9c33ea51 (patch) | |
| tree | 8147a2345202a3e7d5b1d3b14ca1c804d660f300 /Documentation/static-keys.txt | |
| parent | 8b7b412807053ab5f059ffae426a280e769a5bda (diff) | |
jump_label: Provide hotplug context variants
As using the normal static key API under the hotplug lock is
pretty much impossible, let's provide a variant of some of them
that require the hotplug lock to have already been taken.
These function are only meant to be used in CPU hotplug callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801080257.5056-4-marc.zyngier@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/static-keys.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/static-keys.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/static-keys.txt b/Documentation/static-keys.txt index 870b4be3cb11..ab16efe0c79d 100644 --- a/Documentation/static-keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/static-keys.txt @@ -154,6 +154,21 @@ and 'static_key_count()'. In general, if you use these functions, they should be protected with the same mutex used around the enable/disable or increment/decrement function. +Note that switching branches results in some locks being taken, +particularly the CPU hotplug lock (in order to avoid races against +CPUs being brought in the kernel whilst the kernel is getting +patched). Calling the static key API from within a hotplug notifier is +thus a sure deadlock recipe. In order to still allow use of the +functionnality, the following functions are provided: + + static_key_enable_cpuslocked() + static_key_disable_cpuslocked() + static_branch_enable_cpuslocked() + static_branch_disable_cpuslocked() + +These functions are *not* general purpose, and must only be used when +you really know that you're in the above context, and no other. + Where an array of keys is required, it can be defined as:: DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_ARRAY_TRUE(keys, count); |