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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-01-16 23:31:15 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-19 21:36:07 (GMT)
commit8ccad40df8d314f786fdb06bdbedd4f43f3257cd (patch)
tree7d3c1bde4ff36bb936a5934e602a4e1b50702545 /kernel
parent31ad9081200c06ccc350625d41d1f8b2d1cef29f (diff)
downloadlinux-8ccad40df8d314f786fdb06bdbedd4f43f3257cd.tar.xz
work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.
Impact: remove potential clashes with generic kevent workqueue Annoyingly, some places we want to use work_on_cpu are already in workqueues. As per Ingo's suggestion, we create a different workqueue for work_on_cpu. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index a35afdb..1f0c509 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -971,6 +971,8 @@ undo:
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+static struct workqueue_struct *work_on_cpu_wq __read_mostly;
+
struct work_for_cpu {
struct work_struct work;
long (*fn)(void *);
@@ -1001,7 +1003,7 @@ long work_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, long (*fn)(void *), void *arg)
INIT_WORK(&wfc.work, do_work_for_cpu);
wfc.fn = fn;
wfc.arg = arg;
- schedule_work_on(cpu, &wfc.work);
+ queue_work_on(cpu, work_on_cpu_wq, &wfc.work);
flush_work(&wfc.work);
return wfc.ret;
@@ -1019,4 +1021,8 @@ void __init init_workqueues(void)
hotcpu_notifier(workqueue_cpu_callback, 0);
keventd_wq = create_workqueue("events");
BUG_ON(!keventd_wq);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ work_on_cpu_wq = create_workqueue("work_on_cpu");
+ BUG_ON(!work_on_cpu_wq);
+#endif
}