[PATCH 2/5] stop_machine: yield CPU during stop machine

Christian Borntraeger borntraeger at de.ibm.com
Fri Oct 21 22:58:55 AEDT 2016


stop_machine can take a very long time if the hypervisor does
overcommitment for guest CPUs. When waiting for "the one", lets
give up our CPU by using the new cpu_relax_yield.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/stop_machine.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
index ec9ab2f..1eb8266 100644
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
+++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int multi_cpu_stop(void *data)
 	/* Simple state machine */
 	do {
 		/* Chill out and ensure we re-read multi_stop_state. */
-		cpu_relax();
+		cpu_relax_yield();
 		if (msdata->state != curstate) {
 			curstate = msdata->state;
 			switch (curstate) {
-- 
2.5.5



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