If we reschedule work instead of having work function sleep for 10 msecs between reads from kfifo we can safely use the main workqueue (keventd) and not bother with creating driver-private one. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c index a2a742c..b6d2961 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c @@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ struct sony_laptop_input_s { struct input_dev *key_dev; struct kfifo *fifo; spinlock_t fifo_lock; - struct workqueue_struct *wq; }; static struct sony_laptop_input_s sony_laptop_input = { @@ -298,17 +297,28 @@ static int sony_laptop_input_keycode_map[] = { /* release buttons after a short delay if pressed */ static void do_sony_laptop_release_key(struct work_struct *work) { + struct delayed_work *dwork = + container_of(work, struct delayed_work, work); struct sony_laptop_keypress kp; - while (kfifo_get(sony_laptop_input.fifo, (unsigned char *)&kp, - sizeof(kp)) == sizeof(kp)) { - msleep(10); + if (kfifo_get(sony_laptop_input.fifo, + (unsigned char *)&kp, sizeof(kp)) == sizeof(kp)) { input_report_key(kp.dev, kp.key, 0); input_sync(kp.dev); } + + /* + * If there is something in the fifo scnhedule nect release. + * We don't care about locking, at worst we may schedule an + * extra "empty" wakeup. This may be improved with the new + * kfifo API. + */ + if (__kfifo_len(sony_laptop_input.fifo) != 0) + schedule_delayed_work(dwork, msecs_to_jiffies(10)); } -static DECLARE_WORK(sony_laptop_release_key_work, - do_sony_laptop_release_key); + +static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(sony_laptop_release_key_work, + do_sony_laptop_release_key); /* forward event to the input subsystem */ static void sony_laptop_report_input_event(u8 event) @@ -362,12 +372,12 @@ static void sony_laptop_report_input_event(u8 event) /* we emit the scancode so we can always remap the key */ input_event(kp.dev, EV_MSC, MSC_SCAN, event); input_sync(kp.dev); + + /* schedule key release */ kfifo_put(sony_laptop_input.fifo, (unsigned char *)&kp, sizeof(kp)); - - if (!work_pending(&sony_laptop_release_key_work)) - queue_work(sony_laptop_input.wq, - &sony_laptop_release_key_work); + schedule_delayed_work(&sony_laptop_release_key_work, + msecs_to_jiffies(10)); } else dprintk("unknown input event %.2x\n", event); } @@ -394,20 +404,11 @@ static int sony_laptop_setup_input(struct acpi_device *acpi_device) goto err_dec_users; } - /* init workqueue */ - sony_laptop_input.wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("sony-laptop"); - if (!sony_laptop_input.wq) { - printk(KERN_ERR DRV_PFX - "Unable to create workqueue.\n"); - error = -ENXIO; - goto err_free_kfifo; - } - /* input keys */ key_dev = input_allocate_device(); if (!key_dev) { error = -ENOMEM; - goto err_destroy_wq; + goto err_free_kfifo; } key_dev->name = "Sony Vaio Keys"; @@ -470,9 +471,6 @@ err_unregister_keydev: err_free_keydev: input_free_device(key_dev); -err_destroy_wq: - destroy_workqueue(sony_laptop_input.wq); - err_free_kfifo: kfifo_free(sony_laptop_input.fifo); @@ -483,12 +481,20 @@ err_dec_users: static void sony_laptop_remove_input(void) { + struct sony_laptop_keypress kp = { NULL }; + /* cleanup only after the last user has gone */ if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&sony_laptop_input.users)) return; - /* flush workqueue first */ - flush_workqueue(sony_laptop_input.wq); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&sony_laptop_release_key_work); + + /* Generate key-up events for remaining keys */ + while (kfifo_get(sony_laptop_input.fifo, + (unsigned char *)&kp, sizeof(kp)) == sizeof(kp)) { + input_report_key(kp.dev, kp.key, 0); + input_sync(kp.dev); + } /* destroy input devs */ input_unregister_device(sony_laptop_input.key_dev); @@ -499,7 +505,6 @@ static void sony_laptop_remove_input(void) sony_laptop_input.jog_dev = NULL; } - destroy_workqueue(sony_laptop_input.wq); kfifo_free(sony_laptop_input.fifo); } -- Dmitry -- 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