linux-kernel - [PATCH] kernel:async function call:introduce async_run

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 23:51:39 +0800
From:	tom.leiming@...il.com
To:	arjan@...radead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel:async function call:introduce async_run_inatomic(v2)

From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>

The purpose of this function is to offer a simple way to schedule an
asynchronous thread from an atomic context, because there are not any
functions which can create and start a kernel thread in atomic contexts
now. We use async_running_no_sync as running list to make callers that
don't want to synchronize on cookies, so can avoid some side effects for
async_synchronize_full().

Part of note for async_run_inatomic and some guideline is from Cornelia Huck.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/async.h |    2 ++
 kernel/async.c        |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/async.h b/include/linux/async.h
index 18ce92b..9ff62af 100644
--- a/include/linux/async.h
+++ b/include/linux/async.h
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 typedef u64 async_cookie_t;
 typedef void (async_func_ptr) (void *data, async_cookie_t cookie);
 
+extern int async_run_inatomic(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data);
+
 extern async_cookie_t async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data);
 extern async_cookie_t async_schedule_domain(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data,
 					    struct list_head *list);
diff --git a/kernel/async.c b/kernel/async.c
index 8663f5b..cb527b3 100644
--- a/kernel/async.c
+++ b/kernel/async.c
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ static async_cookie_t next_cookie = 1;
 
 static LIST_HEAD(async_pending);
 static LIST_HEAD(async_running);
+static LIST_HEAD(async_running_no_sync);
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(async_lock);
 
 static int async_enabled = 0;
@@ -222,6 +223,28 @@ static async_cookie_t __async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data,
 	return newcookie;
 }
 
+ /**
+ * async_run_inatomic - in atomic contexts schedule a function for
+ * 			asynchronous execution
+ *
+ * @ptr: function to execute asynchronously
+ * @data: data pointer to pass to the function
+ *
+ * Return zero if success, or else return others if failured
+ * Note:
+ * The purpose of this function is to offer a simple way to schedule an
+ * asynchronous thread from an atomic context, because there are not any
+ * functions which can create and start a kernel thread in atomic contexts
+ * now. We use async_running_no_sync as running list to make callers that
+ * don't want to synchronize on cookies, so can avoid some side effects for
+ * async_synchronize_full().
+ */
+int async_run_inatomic(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data)
+{
+	return !__async_schedule(ptr, data, &async_running_no_sync, 1);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_run_inatomic);
+
 /**
  * async_schedule - schedule a function for asynchronous execution
  * @ptr: function to execute asynchronously
-- 
1.6.0.GIT

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