linux/include
Petr Mladek 22597dc3d9 kthread: initial support for delayed kthread work
We are going to use kthread_worker more widely and delayed works
will be pretty useful.

The implementation is inspired by workqueues.  It uses a timer to queue
the work after the requested delay.  If the delay is zero, the work is
queued immediately.

In compare with workqueues, each work is associated with a single worker
(kthread).  Therefore the implementation could be much easier.  In
particular, we use the worker->lock to synchronize all the operations with
the work.  We do not need any atomic operation with a flags variable.

In fact, we do not need any state variable at all.  Instead, we add a list
of delayed works into the worker.  Then the pending work is listed either
in the list of queued or delayed works.  And the existing check of pending
works is the same even for the delayed ones.

A work must not be assigned to another worker unless reinitialized.
Therefore the timer handler might expect that dwork->work->worker is valid
and it could simply take the lock.  We just add some sanity checks to help
with debugging a potential misuse.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-9-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-10-03 19:43:08 -07:00
asm-generic nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
clocksource
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-10-10 11:19:47 +08:00
drm
dt-bindings ARM: SoC: late DT updates for v4.9 2016-10-07 21:34:49 -07:00
keys
kvm ARM: KVM: Support vgic-v3 2016-09-22 13:22:21 +02:00
linux kthread: initial support for delayed kthread work 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
math-emu
media [media] cec: rename cec_devnode fhs_lock to just lock 2016-08-22 13:09:06 -03:00
memory
misc
net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2016-10-06 09:52:23 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Merge of primary rdma-core code for 4.9 2016-10-09 17:04:33 -07:00
rxrpc rxrpc: Add tracepoint for ACK proposal 2016-09-23 15:49:19 +01:00
scsi Merge remote-tracking branch 'mkp-scsi/4.8/scsi-fixes' into fixes 2016-09-27 22:30:51 -07:00
soc The core clk framework changes are small again. They're mostly minor fixes 2016-10-04 11:04:57 -07:00
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.9 2016-09-30 18:40:40 +02:00
target
trace mm, compaction: rename COMPACT_PARTIAL to COMPACT_SUCCESS 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
uapi autofs4: move linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h to uapi/linux 2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
video
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.9-rc0 2016-10-06 11:19:10 -07:00
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