[RFC PATCH 5/6] vdpa_sim: use kthread worker

[Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Let's use our own kthread to run device jobs.
This allows us more flexibility, especially we can attach the kthread
to the user address space when vDPA uses user's VA.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h |  3 ++-
 drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h
index 7e6dd366856f..07ef53ea375e 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ struct vdpasim_dev_attr {
 struct vdpasim {
 	struct vdpa_device vdpa;
 	struct vdpasim_virtqueue *vqs;
-	struct work_struct work;
+	struct kthread_worker *worker;
+	struct kthread_work work;
 	struct vdpasim_dev_attr dev_attr;
 	/* spinlock to synchronize virtqueue state */
 	spinlock_t lock;
diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
index 9bde33e38e27..36a1d2e0a6ba 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/dma-map-ops.h>
 #include <linux/vringh.h>
 #include <linux/vdpa.h>
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static const struct dma_map_ops vdpasim_dma_ops = {
 static const struct vdpa_config_ops vdpasim_config_ops;
 static const struct vdpa_config_ops vdpasim_batch_config_ops;
 
-static void vdpasim_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
+static void vdpasim_work_fn(struct kthread_work *work)
 {
 	struct vdpasim *vdpasim = container_of(work, struct vdpasim, work);
 
@@ -282,7 +282,13 @@ struct vdpasim *vdpasim_create(struct vdpasim_dev_attr *dev_attr,
 	}
 
 	vdpasim->dev_attr = *dev_attr;
-	INIT_WORK(&vdpasim->work, vdpasim_work_fn);
+
+	kthread_init_work(&vdpasim->work, vdpasim_work_fn);
+	vdpasim->worker = kthread_create_worker(0, "vDPA sim worker: %s",
+						dev_attr->name);
+	if (IS_ERR(vdpasim->worker))
+		goto err_iommu;
+
 	spin_lock_init(&vdpasim->lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&vdpasim->iommu_lock);
 
@@ -338,7 +344,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vdpasim_create);
 
 void vdpasim_schedule_work(struct vdpasim *vdpasim)
 {
-	schedule_work(&vdpasim->work);
+	kthread_queue_work(vdpasim->worker, &vdpasim->work);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vdpasim_schedule_work);
 
@@ -689,7 +695,8 @@ static void vdpasim_free(struct vdpa_device *vdpa)
 	struct vdpasim *vdpasim = vdpa_to_sim(vdpa);
 	int i;
 
-	cancel_work_sync(&vdpasim->work);
+	kthread_cancel_work_sync(&vdpasim->work);
+	kthread_destroy_worker(vdpasim->worker);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < vdpasim->dev_attr.nvqs; i++) {
 		vringh_kiov_cleanup(&vdpasim->vqs[i].out_iov);
-- 
2.38.1