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authorLukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>2018-02-11 10:38:28 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-03-18 11:17:48 +0100
commite235f151a39b3af6d357c21f290087df7639580b (patch)
tree22a12c749a862b7c69bb86bd68843d2ae0386d13 /kernel
parent8bf4bc933f4487f5733a55e1483538a349e526f3 (diff)
workqueue: Allow retrieval of current task's work struct
commit 27d4ee03078aba88c5e07dcc4917e8d01d046f38 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 85555eb4d3cb..8df77ed6aa99 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4048,6 +4048,22 @@ 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