From 68380b581383c028830f79ec2670f4a193854aa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:28:19 -0800 Subject: Add "run_scheduled_work()" workqueue function This allows workqueue users to run just their own pending work, rather than wait for the whole workqueue to finish running. This solves the deadlock with networking libphy that was due to other workqueue entries possibly needing a lock that was held by the routine that wanted to flush its own work. It's not wonderful: if you absolutely need to synchronize with the work function having been executed, any user strictly speaking should have its own completion tracking logic, since when we run things explicitly by hand, the generic workqueue layer can no longer help us synchronize. Also, this is strictly only usable for work that has been scheduled without any delayed timers. You can not mix the new interface with schedule_delayed_work(). But it's better than what we had currently. Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/workqueue.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/workqueue.h') diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index f0cb1df7b47..edef8d50b26 100644 --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ extern int queue_delayed_work_on(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq, extern void FASTCALL(flush_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)); extern int FASTCALL(schedule_work(struct work_struct *work)); +extern int FASTCALL(run_scheduled_work(struct work_struct *work)); extern int FASTCALL(schedule_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *work, unsigned long delay)); extern int schedule_delayed_work_on(int cpu, struct delayed_work *work, unsigned long delay); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2