linux/kernel/sched
Thomas Gleixner 29d5e0476e smp: Provide generic idle thread allocation
All SMP architectures have magic to fork the idle task and to store it
for reusage when cpu hotplug is enabled. Provide a generic
infrastructure for it.

Create/reinit the idle thread for the cpu which is brought up in the
generic code and hand the thread pointer to the architecture code via
__cpu_up().

Note, that fork_idle() is called via a workqueue, because this
guarantees that the idle thread does not get a reference to a user
space VM. This can happen when the boot process did not bring up all
possible cpus and a later cpu_up() is initiated via the sysfs
interface. In that case fork_idle() would be called in the context of
the user space task and take a reference on the user space VM.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420124557.102478630@linutronix.de
2012-04-26 12:06:09 +02:00
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auto_group.c sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice() 2012-03-02 12:23:49 +01:00
auto_group.h
clock.c
core.c smp: Provide generic idle thread allocation 2012-04-26 12:06:09 +02:00
cpupri.c kernel-doc: fix kernel-doc warnings in sched 2012-01-23 08:44:54 -08:00
cpupri.h
debug.c sched: Remove sched_switch 2012-01-27 13:28:53 +01:00
fair.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 14:46:05 -07:00
features.h
idle_task.c
Makefile
rt.c sched/rt: Improve pick_next_highest_task_rt() 2012-03-27 14:52:12 +02:00
sched.h Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-31 13:35:31 -07:00
stats.c sched: Remove sched_switch 2012-01-27 13:28:53 +01:00
stats.h
stop_task.c