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authorJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2007-05-31 06:57:05 +0200
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2007-05-31 06:57:05 +0200
commit5bc65793cbf8da0d35f19ef025dda22887e79e80 (patch)
tree8291998abd73055de6f487fafa174ee2a5d3afee /kernel/workqueue.c
parent[SCSI] 3w-xxxx: convert to use the data buffer accessors (diff)
parenta bug in ramfs_nommu_resize function, passing old size to vmtruncate (diff)
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[SCSI] Merge up to linux-2.6 head
Conflicts: drivers/scsi/jazz_esp.c Same changes made by both SCSI and SPARC trees: problem with UTF-8 conversion in the copyright. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c84
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 47 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index fb56fedd5c02..3bebf73be976 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ struct cpu_workqueue_struct {
struct workqueue_struct *wq;
struct task_struct *thread;
- int should_stop;
int run_depth; /* Detect run_workqueue() recursion depth */
} ____cacheline_aligned;
@@ -71,7 +70,13 @@ static LIST_HEAD(workqueues);
static int singlethread_cpu __read_mostly;
static cpumask_t cpu_singlethread_map __read_mostly;
-/* optimization, we could use cpu_possible_map */
+/*
+ * _cpu_down() first removes CPU from cpu_online_map, then CPU_DEAD
+ * flushes cwq->worklist. This means that flush_workqueue/wait_on_work
+ * which comes in between can't use for_each_online_cpu(). We could
+ * use cpu_possible_map, the cpumask below is more a documentation
+ * than optimization.
+ */
static cpumask_t cpu_populated_map __read_mostly;
/* If it's single threaded, it isn't in the list of workqueues. */
@@ -272,24 +277,6 @@ static void run_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
spin_unlock_irq(&cwq->lock);
}
-/*
- * NOTE: the caller must not touch *cwq if this func returns true
- */
-static int cwq_should_stop(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
-{
- int should_stop = cwq->should_stop;
-
- if (unlikely(should_stop)) {
- spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock);
- should_stop = cwq->should_stop && list_empty(&cwq->worklist);
- if (should_stop)
- cwq->thread = NULL;
- spin_unlock_irq(&cwq->lock);
- }
-
- return should_stop;
-}
-
static int worker_thread(void *__cwq)
{
struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq = __cwq;
@@ -302,14 +289,15 @@ static int worker_thread(void *__cwq)
for (;;) {
prepare_to_wait(&cwq->more_work, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- if (!freezing(current) && !cwq->should_stop
- && list_empty(&cwq->worklist))
+ if (!freezing(current) &&
+ !kthread_should_stop() &&
+ list_empty(&cwq->worklist))
schedule();
finish_wait(&cwq->more_work, &wait);
try_to_freeze();
- if (cwq_should_stop(cwq))
+ if (kthread_should_stop())
break;
run_workqueue(cwq);
@@ -340,18 +328,21 @@ static void insert_wq_barrier(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq,
insert_work(cwq, &barr->work, tail);
}
-static void flush_cpu_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
+static int flush_cpu_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
{
+ int active;
+
if (cwq->thread == current) {
/*
* Probably keventd trying to flush its own queue. So simply run
* it by hand rather than deadlocking.
*/
run_workqueue(cwq);
+ active = 1;
} else {
struct wq_barrier barr;
- int active = 0;
+ active = 0;
spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock);
if (!list_empty(&cwq->worklist) || cwq->current_work != NULL) {
insert_wq_barrier(cwq, &barr, 1);
@@ -362,6 +353,8 @@ static void flush_cpu_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
if (active)
wait_for_completion(&barr.done);
}
+
+ return active;
}
/**
@@ -674,7 +667,6 @@ static int create_workqueue_thread(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq, int cpu)
return PTR_ERR(p);
cwq->thread = p;
- cwq->should_stop = 0;
return 0;
}
@@ -740,29 +732,27 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__create_workqueue);
static void cleanup_workqueue_thread(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq, int cpu)
{
- struct wq_barrier barr;
- int alive = 0;
-
- spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock);
- if (cwq->thread != NULL) {
- insert_wq_barrier(cwq, &barr, 1);
- cwq->should_stop = 1;
- alive = 1;
- }
- spin_unlock_irq(&cwq->lock);
+ /*
+ * Our caller is either destroy_workqueue() or CPU_DEAD,
+ * workqueue_mutex protects cwq->thread
+ */
+ if (cwq->thread == NULL)
+ return;
- if (alive) {
- wait_for_completion(&barr.done);
+ /*
+ * If the caller is CPU_DEAD the single flush_cpu_workqueue()
+ * is not enough, a concurrent flush_workqueue() can insert a
+ * barrier after us.
+ * When ->worklist becomes empty it is safe to exit because no
+ * more work_structs can be queued on this cwq: flush_workqueue
+ * checks list_empty(), and a "normal" queue_work() can't use
+ * a dead CPU.
+ */
+ while (flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq))
+ ;
- while (unlikely(cwq->thread != NULL))
- cpu_relax();
- /*
- * Wait until cwq->thread unlocks cwq->lock,
- * it won't touch *cwq after that.
- */
- smp_rmb();
- spin_unlock_wait(&cwq->lock);
- }
+ kthread_stop(cwq->thread);
+ cwq->thread = NULL;
}
/**