From bf0d31c05411f030e7df9f98b5be4d0c6fd5cd39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:03:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] locking/core, stop_machine: Yield the CPU during stop machine() Some time ago the following commit: 57f2ffe14fd125c2 ("s390: remove diag 44 calls from cpu_relax()") ... stopped cpu_relax() on s390 yielding to the hypervisor. As it turns out this made stop_machine() run really slow on virtualized overcommited systems. For example the kprobes test during bootup took several seconds instead of just running unnoticed with large guests. Therefore, yielding was reintroduced with commit: 4d92f50249eb ("s390: reintroduce diag 44 calls for cpu_relax()") ... but in fact the stop machine code seems to be the only place where this yielding was really necessary. This place is probably the most important one as it makes all but one guest CPUs wait for one guest CPU. As we now have cpu_relax_yield(), we can use this in multi_cpu_stop(). For now lets only add it here. We can add it later in other places when necessary. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Noam Camus Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-3-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 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 ec9ab2f01489..1eb82661ecdb 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) {