linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Export current_is

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Date:	Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:43:13 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>,
	Ben Collins <ben.collins@...ntu.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy 

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> wrote:

> How about something like this?

At first glance, this looks reasonable.

It also looks like it should be used to replace a lot of the
cancel_delayed_work() calls that attempt to cancel _undelayed_ work items.
That would allow a number of work items to be downgraded from delayed_work to
work_struct.

Also, the name "run_scheduled_work" sort of suggests that the work *will* be
run regardless of whether it was pending or not.  Given the confusion over
cancel_delayed_work(), I imagine this will rain confusion too.

+	if (get_wq_data(work) == cwq
+	    && test_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING, &work->management)

I wonder if those can be combined, perhaps:

+	if ((work->management & ~WORK_STRUCT_NOAUTOREL) ==
+	    ((unsigned long) cwq | (1 << WORK_STRUCT_PENDING))

Otherwise for i386 the compiler can't combine them because test_bit() is done
with inline asm.

And:

+		if (!test_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING, &work->management))

Should possibly be:

+		if (!work_pending(work))

David
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