linux/drivers/base
Lee Schermerhorn 39da08cb07 hugetlb: offload per node attribute registrations
Offload the registration and unregistration of per node hstate sysfs
attributes to a worker thread rather than attempt the
allocation/attachment or detachment/freeing of the attributes in the
context of the memory hotplug handler.

I don't know that this is absolutely required, but the registration can
sleep in allocations and other mem hot plug handlers do it this way.  If
it turns out this is NOT required, we can drop this patch.

N.B.,  Only tested build, boot, libhugetlbfs regression.
       i.e., no memory hotplug testing.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
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power PM / Runtime: Remove unnecessary braces in __pm_runtime_set_status() 2009-12-06 16:17:57 +01:00
Kconfig Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev 2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
Makefile Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev 2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
attribute_container.c driver core: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() 2009-01-06 10:44:31 -08:00
base.h Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev 2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
bus.c Driver core: allow certain drivers prohibit bind/unbind via sysfs 2009-10-30 14:59:51 -07:00
class.c Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes 2009-09-15 09:50:48 -07:00
core.c Driver core: fix race in dev_driver_string 2009-12-11 11:24:55 -08:00
cpu.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
dd.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
devres.c devres: WARN() and return, don't crash on device_del() of uninitialized device 2009-07-12 13:02:09 -07:00
devtmpfs.c Driver-Core: devtmpfs - set root directory mode to 0755 2009-12-11 11:24:52 -08:00
dma-coherent.c driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base 2009-09-15 09:50:47 -07:00
dma-mapping.c devres: device resource management 2007-02-09 17:39:36 -05:00
driver.c Driver core: fix driver_register() return value 2009-10-30 14:59:51 -07:00
firmware.c firmware: change firmware_kset to firmware_kobj 2008-01-24 20:40:23 -08:00
firmware_class.c firmware_class: make request_firmware_nowait more useful 2009-12-11 11:24:52 -08:00
hypervisor.c kobject: convert /sys/hypervisor to use kobject_create 2008-01-24 20:40:15 -08:00
init.c Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev 2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
iommu.c drivers/base/iommu.c: add missing includes 2009-05-06 16:36:10 -07:00
isa.c dma-mapping: replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24) 2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
map.c
memory.c mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs 2009-01-06 15:59:00 -08:00
module.c Driver core: move the static kobject out of struct driver 2008-01-24 20:40:35 -08:00
node.c hugetlb: offload per node attribute registrations 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
platform.c Driver Core: Early platform driver buffer 2009-12-11 11:24:55 -08:00
sys.c driver core: sysdev: do not send KOBJ_ADD uevent if kobject_init_and_add fails 2009-07-28 13:45:22 -07:00
topology.c cpumask: Use topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask() 2009-01-11 19:12:49 +01:00
transport_class.c SCSI: convert struct class_device to struct device 2008-04-19 19:10:33 -07:00