From db700897224b5ebdf852f2d38920ce428940d059 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:49 -0700 Subject: workqueues: implement flush_work() Most of users of flush_workqueue() can be changed to use cancel_work_sync(), but sometimes we really need to wait for the completion and cancelling is not an option. schedule_on_each_cpu() is good example. Add the new helper, flush_work(work), which waits for the completion of the specific work_struct. More precisely, it "flushes" the result of of the last queue_work() which is visible to the caller. For example, this code queue_work(wq, work); /* WINDOW */ queue_work(wq, work); flush_work(work); doesn't necessary work "as expected". What can happen in the WINDOW above is - wq starts the execution of work->func() - the caller migrates to another CPU now, after the 2nd queue_work() this work is active on the previous CPU, and at the same time it is queued on another. In this case flush_work(work) may return before the first work->func() completes. It is trivial to add another helper int flush_work_sync(struct work_struct *work) { return flush_work(work) || wait_on_work(work); } which works "more correctly", but it has to iterate over all CPUs and thus it much slower than flush_work(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/workqueue.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c') diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index d9a2d65cc63..ee41cf857d5 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -423,6 +423,52 @@ void flush_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_workqueue); +/** + * flush_work - block until a work_struct's callback has terminated + * @work: the work which is to be flushed + * + * It is expected that, prior to calling flush_work(), the caller has + * arranged for the work to not be requeued, otherwise it doesn't make + * sense to use this function. + */ +int flush_work(struct work_struct *work) +{ + struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq; + struct list_head *prev; + struct wq_barrier barr; + + might_sleep(); + cwq = get_wq_data(work); + if (!cwq) + return 0; + + prev = NULL; + spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock); + if (!list_empty(&work->entry)) { + /* + * See the comment near try_to_grab_pending()->smp_rmb(). + * If it was re-queued under us we are not going to wait. + */ + smp_rmb(); + if (unlikely(cwq != get_wq_data(work))) + goto out; + prev = &work->entry; + } else { + if (cwq->current_work != work) + goto out; + prev = &cwq->worklist; + } + insert_wq_barrier(cwq, &barr, prev->next); +out: + spin_unlock_irq(&cwq->lock); + if (!prev) + return 0; + + wait_for_completion(&barr.done); + return 1; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_work); + /* * Upon a successful return (>= 0), the caller "owns" WORK_STRUCT_PENDING bit, * so this work can't be re-armed in any way. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2