The patch titled
workqueues: implement flush_work()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
workqueues-implement-flush_work.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: workqueues: implement flush_work()
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Most of users of flush_workqueue() can be changed to use cancel_work_sync(),
but sometimes we really need to wait for the completion and cancelling is not
an option. schedule_on_each_cpu() is good example.
Add the new helper, flush_work(work), which waits for the completion of the
specific work_struct. More precisely, it "flushes" the result of of the last
queue_work() which is visible to the caller.
For example, this code
queue_work(wq, work);
/* WINDOW */
queue_work(wq, work);
flush_work(work);
doesn't necessary work "as expected". What can happen in the WINDOW above is
- wq starts the execution of work->func()
- the caller migrates to another CPU
now, after the 2nd queue_work() this work is active on the previous CPU, and
at the same time it is queued on another. In this case flush_work(work) may
return before the first work->func() completes.
It is trivial to add another helper
int flush_work_sync(struct work_struct *work)
{
return flush_work(work) || wait_on_work(work);
}
which works "more correctly", but it has to iterate over all CPUs and thus
it much slower than flush_work().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/workqueue.h | 2 +
kernel/workqueue.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
diff -puN include/linux/workqueue.h~workqueues-implement-flush_work include/linux/workqueue.h
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h~workqueues-implement-flush_work
+++ a/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ extern int keventd_up(void);
extern void init_workqueues(void);
int execute_in_process_context(work_func_t fn, struct execute_work *);
+extern int flush_work(struct work_struct *work);
+
extern int cancel_work_sync(struct work_struct *work);
/*
diff -puN kernel/workqueue.c~workqueues-implement-flush_work kernel/workqueue.c
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c~workqueues-implement-flush_work
+++ a/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -423,6 +423,52 @@ void flush_workqueue(struct workqueue_st
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_workqueue);
+/**
+ * flush_work - block until a work_struct's callback has terminated
+ * @work: the work which is to be flushed
+ *
+ * It is expected that, prior to calling flush_work(), the caller has
+ * arranged for the work to not be requeued, otherwise it doesn't make
+ * sense to use this function.
+ */
+int flush_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq;
+ struct list_head *prev;
+ struct wq_barrier barr;
+
+ might_sleep();
+ cwq = get_wq_data(work);
+ if (!cwq)
+ return 0;
+
+ prev = NULL;
+ spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock);
+ if (!list_empty(&work->entry)) {
+ /*
+ * See the comment near try_to_grab_pending()->smp_rmb().
+ * If it was re-queued under us we are not going to wait.
+ */
+ smp_rmb();
+ if (unlikely(cwq != get_wq_data(work)))
+ goto out;
+ prev = &work->entry;
+ } else {
+ if (cwq->current_work != work)
+ goto out;
+ prev = &cwq->worklist;
+ }
+ insert_wq_barrier(cwq, &barr, prev->next);
+out:
+ spin_unlock_irq(&cwq->lock);
+ if (!prev)
+ return 0;
+
+ wait_for_completion(&barr.done);
+ return 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_work);
+
/*
* Upon a successful return (>= 0), the caller "owns" WORK_STRUCT_PENDING bit,
* so this work can't be re-armed in any way.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
migrate_timers-add-comment-use-spinlock_irq.patch
tracehook-add-linux-tracehookh.patch
tracehook-exec.patch
tracehook-unexport-ptrace_notify.patch
tracehook-exit.patch
tracehook-clone.patch
tracehook-vfork-done.patch
tracehook-release_task.patch
tracehook-tracehook_tracer_task.patch
tracehook-tracehook_expect_breakpoints.patch
tracehook-tracehook_signal_handler.patch
tracehook-tracehook_consider_ignored_signal.patch
tracehook-tracehook_consider_fatal_signal.patch
tracehook-syscall.patch
tracehook-get_signal_to_deliver.patch
tracehook-job-control.patch
tracehook-death.patch
tracehook-force-signal_pending.patch
tracehook-tif_notify_resume.patch
tracehook-asm-syscallh.patch
tracehook-config_have_arch_tracehook.patch
tracehook-wait_task_inactive.patch
task_current_syscall.patch
proc-pid-syscall.patch
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