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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-09-05 11:17:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-05 11:30:42 -0700
commit4e49627b9bc29a14b393c480e8c979e3bc922ef7 (patch)
tree209b69da65abbbffb7abeaea60f17d46f38485fe /include/linux
parent37d0892c5a94e208cf863e3b7bac014edee4346d (diff)
workqueues: introduce __cancel_delayed_work()
cancel_delayed_work() has to use del_timer_sync() to guarantee the timer function is not running after return. But most users doesn't actually need this, and del_timer_sync() has problems: it is not useable from interrupt, and it depends on every lock which could be taken from irq. Introduce __cancel_delayed_work() which calls del_timer() instead. The immediate reason for this patch is http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13757 but hopefully this helper makes sense anyway. As for 13757 bug, actually we need requeue_delayed_work(), but its semantics are not yet clear. Merge this patch early to resolves cross-tree interdependencies between input and infiniband. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/workqueue.h15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index 13e1adf55c4c..6273fa97b527 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -240,6 +240,21 @@ static inline int cancel_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *work)
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * Like above, but uses del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync(). This means,
+ * if it returns 0 the timer function may be running and the queueing is in
+ * progress.
+ */
+static inline int __cancel_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *work)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = del_timer(&work->timer);
+ if (ret)
+ work_clear_pending(&work->work);
+ return ret;
+}
+
extern int cancel_delayed_work_sync(struct delayed_work *work);
/* Obsolete. use cancel_delayed_work_sync() */