On 12/07/24 17:20, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 02:59:57PM +0200, Valentin Schneider wrote:
>> Later commits will need to issue a task_work_cancel() from within the
>> scheduler with the task's ->pi_lock held.
>>
>> Add a _locked variant that expects p->pi_lock to be held. Expose it in a
>> separate scheduler header file, as this really is a scheduler-only
>> interface.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/task_work_sched.h | 14 +++++++
>> kernel/task_work.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>> 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 kernel/sched/task_work_sched.h
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/task_work_sched.h b/kernel/sched/task_work_sched.h
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000000000..e235da456427f
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/task_work_sched.h
>> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>> +/*
>> + * Scheduler internal task_work methods
>> + */
>> +#ifndef _KERNEL_TASK_WORK_SCHED_H
>> +#define _KERNEL_TASK_WORK_SCHED_H
>> +
>> +#include <linux/task_work.h>
>> +#include <linux/sched.h>
>> +
>> +struct callback_head *
>> +task_work_cancel_locked(struct task_struct *task, task_work_func_t func);
>> +
>> +#endif
>
>
> Do we really need that exposed? Can't we squirrel that way in
> kernel/sched/sched.h and forget about it?
>
Nah that's not required, I thought a clean cut header would be neater but
given its single user, tossing that to sched.h looks better.
>> +struct callback_head *
>> +task_work_cancel_locked(struct task_struct *task, task_work_func_t func)
>> +{
>> + lockdep_assert_held(&task->pi_lock);
>
> I'm thinking that lockde_assert wants to live in your _locked function
> above.
>
Quite so!
