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authorLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>2018-02-11 10:38:28 +0100
committerLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>2018-02-16 22:24:25 +0100
commit27d4ee03078aba88c5e07dcc4917e8d01d046f38 (patch)
tree31843f798ac72fce35096eff622e4e534623a477 /kernel
parent54f809cfbd6b4a43959039f5d33596ed3297ce16 (diff)
downloadlinux-27d4ee03078aba88c5e07dcc4917e8d01d046f38.tar.bz2
workqueue: Allow retrieval of current task's work struct
Introduce a helper to retrieve the current task's work struct if it is a workqueue worker. This allows us to fix a long-standing deadlock in several DRM drivers wherein the ->runtime_suspend callback waits for a specific worker to finish and that worker in turn calls a function which waits for runtime suspend to finish. That function is invoked from multiple call sites and waiting for runtime suspend to finish is the correct thing to do except if it's executing in the context of the worker. Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/2d8f603074131eb87e588d2b803a71765bd3a2fd.1518338788.git.lukas@wunner.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 43d18cb46308..255c20efdf7b 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4168,6 +4168,22 @@ void workqueue_set_max_active(struct workqueue_struct *wq, int max_active)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(workqueue_set_max_active);
/**
+ * current_work - retrieve %current task's work struct
+ *
+ * Determine if %current task is a workqueue worker and what it's working on.
+ * Useful to find out the context that the %current task is running in.
+ *
+ * Return: work struct if %current task is a workqueue worker, %NULL otherwise.
+ */
+struct work_struct *current_work(void)
+{
+ struct worker *worker = current_wq_worker();
+
+ return worker ? worker->current_work : NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(current_work);
+
+/**
* current_is_workqueue_rescuer - is %current workqueue rescuer?
*
* Determine whether %current is a workqueue rescuer. Can be used from