On Friday 26 June 2009, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > It occurs to me that the problem would be solved if were a cancel_work > > > routine. In the same vein, it ought to be possible for > > > cancel_delayed_work to run in interrupt context. I'll see what can be > > > done. > > > > Having looked at the workqueue code I'm not sure if there's a way to implement > > that in a non-racy way. Which may be the reason why there are no such > > functions already. :-) > > Well, I'll give it a try. I did that too. :-) It seems that if we do something like in the appended patch, then cancel_work() and cancel_delayed_work_dequeue() can be used to simplify the $subject patch slightly. Best, Rafael --- include/linux/workqueue.h | 2 ++ kernel/workqueue.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/workqueue.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ int execute_in_process_context(work_func extern int flush_work(struct work_struct *work); extern int cancel_work_sync(struct work_struct *work); +extern int cancel_work(struct work_struct *work); /* * Kill off a pending schedule_delayed_work(). Note that the work callback @@ -241,6 +242,7 @@ static inline int cancel_delayed_work(st } extern int cancel_delayed_work_sync(struct delayed_work *work); +extern int cancel_delayed_work_dequeue(struct delayed_work *dwork); /* Obsolete. use cancel_delayed_work_sync() */ static inline Index: linux-2.6/kernel/workqueue.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/workqueue.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ static void wait_on_work(struct work_str wait_on_cpu_work(per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, cpu), work); } -static int __cancel_work_timer(struct work_struct *work, +static int __cancel_work_timer(struct work_struct *work, bool wait, struct timer_list* timer) { int ret; @@ -545,7 +545,8 @@ static int __cancel_work_timer(struct wo ret = (timer && likely(del_timer(timer))); if (!ret) ret = try_to_grab_pending(work); - wait_on_work(work); + if (wait) + wait_on_work(work); } while (unlikely(ret < 0)); work_clear_pending(work); @@ -575,11 +576,27 @@ static int __cancel_work_timer(struct wo */ int cancel_work_sync(struct work_struct *work) { - return __cancel_work_timer(work, NULL); + return __cancel_work_timer(work, true, NULL); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cancel_work_sync); /** + * cancel_work - kill off a work without waiting for its callback to terminate + * @work: the work which is to be canceled + * + * Returns true if @work was pending. + * + * cancel_work() will cancel the work if it is queued, but it will not block + * until the works callback completes. Apart from this, it works like + * cancel_work_sync(). + */ +int cancel_work(struct work_struct *work) +{ + return __cancel_work_timer(work, false, NULL); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cancel_work); + +/** * cancel_delayed_work_sync - reliably kill off a delayed work. * @dwork: the delayed work struct * @@ -590,10 +607,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cancel_work_sync); */ int cancel_delayed_work_sync(struct delayed_work *dwork) { - return __cancel_work_timer(&dwork->work, &dwork->timer); + return __cancel_work_timer(&dwork->work, true, &dwork->timer); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_delayed_work_sync); +/** + * cancel_delayed_work_dequeue - kill off a delayed work. + * @dwork: the delayed work struct + * + * Returns true if @dwork was pending. + * + * cancel_delayed_work_dequeue() will not wait for the work's callback to + * terminate. Apart from this it works like cancel_delayed_work_sync(). + */ +int cancel_delayed_work_dequeue(struct delayed_work *dwork) +{ + return __cancel_work_timer(&dwork->work, false, &dwork->timer); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_delayed_work_dequeue); + static struct workqueue_struct *keventd_wq __read_mostly; /** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html