Re: [PATCH -tip] fix race between stop_two_cpus and stop_cpus

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:44:24PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Ok, I see your point now but still wonder if this is too specialised
> for what we are trying to do.  Could it have been done with a read-write
> semaphore with the global stop_cpus taking it for write and stop_two_cpus
> taking it for read?

rwsem for read is still global state.. That said it should be fairly
easy to use lglock for this.

Or write it with spinlocks like:

DEFINE_PER_CPU(spinlock_t, local_lock);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, have_global);
spinlock_t global_lock;

void local_lock(void)
{
	preempt_disable();
	spin_lock(this_cpu_ptr(&local_lock));
	if (spin_is_locked(&global_lock)) {
		spin_unlock(this_cpu_ptr(&local_lock));
		spin_lock(&global_lock);
		this_cpu_write(have_global, true);
		spin_lock(this_cpu_ptr(&local_lock));
	}
}

void local_unlock(void)
{
	spin_unlock(this_cpu_ptr(&local_lock));
	if (this_cpu_read(have_global)) {
		this_cpu_write(have_global, false);
		spin_unlock(&global_lock);
	}
}

void global_lock(void)
{
	int cpu;

	spin_lock(&global_lock);
	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
		spin_unlock_wait(&per_cpu(local_lock, cpu));
}

void global_unlock(void)
{
	spin_unlock(&global_lock);
}

Or possibly make the global_lock a mutex, plenty variants possible.