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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-03-12 17:41:37 -0700
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-03-12 17:42:01 -0700
commite62676169118bc2d42e5008b3f8872646313f077 (patch)
tree98ce7e6b03a8a18fa322de7997248a8e0b7b2f84
parent226223ab3c4118ddd10688cc2c131135848371ab (diff)
workqueue: implement current_is_workqueue_rescuer()
Implement a function which queries whether it currently is running off a workqueue rescuer. This will be used to convert writeback to workqueue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/workqueue.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c13
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index 7f6d29a417c..df30763c868 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ extern bool cancel_delayed_work_sync(struct delayed_work *dwork);
extern void workqueue_set_max_active(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
int max_active);
+extern bool current_is_workqueue_rescuer(void);
extern bool workqueue_congested(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq);
extern unsigned int work_busy(struct work_struct *work);
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index c82feac0a87..f5c8bbb9ada 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4072,6 +4072,19 @@ void workqueue_set_max_active(struct workqueue_struct *wq, int max_active)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(workqueue_set_max_active);
/**
+ * current_is_workqueue_rescuer - is %current workqueue rescuer?
+ *
+ * Determine whether %current is a workqueue rescuer. Can be used from
+ * work functions to determine whether it's being run off the rescuer task.
+ */
+bool current_is_workqueue_rescuer(void)
+{
+ struct worker *worker = current_wq_worker();
+
+ return worker && worker == worker->current_pwq->wq->rescuer;
+}
+
+/**
* workqueue_congested - test whether a workqueue is congested
* @cpu: CPU in question
* @wq: target workqueue