/* Worker thread pool for slow items, such as filesystem lookups or mkdirs * * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com) * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version. * * See Documentation/slow-work.txt */ #ifndef _LINUX_SLOW_WORK_H #define _LINUX_SLOW_WORK_H #ifdef CONFIG_SLOW_WORK #include struct slow_work; /* * The operations used to support slow work items */ struct slow_work_ops { /* owner */ struct module *owner; /* get a ref on a work item * - return 0 if successful, -ve if not */ int (*get_ref)(struct slow_work *work); /* discard a ref to a work item */ void (*put_ref)(struct slow_work *work); /* execute a work item */ void (*execute)(struct slow_work *work); }; /* * A slow work item * - A reference is held on the parent object by the thread pool when it is * queued */ struct slow_work { struct module *owner; /* the owning module */ unsigned long flags; #define SLOW_WORK_PENDING 0 /* item pending (further) execution */ #define SLOW_WORK_EXECUTING 1 /* item currently executing */ #define SLOW_WORK_ENQ_DEFERRED 2 /* item enqueue deferred */ #define SLOW_WORK_VERY_SLOW 3 /* item is very slow */ #define SLOW_WORK_CANCELLING 4 /* item is being cancelled, don't enqueue */ const struct slow_work_ops *ops; /* operations table for this item */ struct list_head link; /* link in queue */ }; /** * slow_work_init - Initialise a slow work item * @work: The work item to initialise * @ops: The operations to use to handle the slow work item * * Initialise a slow work item. */ static inline void slow_work_init(struct slow_work *work, const struct slow_work_ops *ops) { work->flags = 0; work->ops = ops; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&work->link); } /** * vslow_work_init - Initialise a very slow work item * @work: The work item to initialise * @ops: The operations to use to handle the slow work item * * Initialise a very slow work item. This item will be restricted such that * only a certain number of the pool threads will be able to execute items of * this type. */ static inline void vslow_work_init(struct slow_work *work, const struct slow_work_ops *ops) { work->flags = 1 << SLOW_WORK_VERY_SLOW; work->ops = ops; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&work->link); } extern int slow_work_enqueue(struct slow_work *work); extern void slow_work_cancel(struct slow_work *work); extern int slow_work_register_user(struct module *owner); extern void slow_work_unregister_user(struct module *owner); #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL extern ctl_table slow_work_sysctls[]; #endif #endif /* CONFIG_SLOW_WORK */ #endif /* _LINUX_SLOW_WORK_H */