linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] firewire: don't use PREPARE_DELAYED

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Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:45:48 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	laijs@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Chris Boot <bootc@...tc.net>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	target-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] firewire: don't use PREPARE_DELAYED_WORK

On Feb 20 Tejun Heo wrote:
> PREPARE_[DELAYED_]WORK() are being phased out.  They have few users
> and a nasty surprise in terms of reentrancy guarantee as workqueue
> considers work items to be different if they don't have the same work
> function.
> 
> firewire core-device and sbp2 have been been multiplexing work items
> with multiple work functions.  Introduce fw_device_workfn() and
> sbp2_lu_workfn() which invoke fw_device->workfn and
> sbp2_logical_unit->workfn respectively and always use the two
> functions as the work functions and update the users to set the
> ->workfn fields instead of overriding work functions using
> PREPARE_DELAYED_WORK().
> 
> It would probably be best to route this with other related updates
> through the workqueue tree.
> 
> Compile tested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
> Cc: linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net

Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>

And lightly runtime-tested as well.

This doesn't actually touch sbp-target; the following Cc's could be
dropped:

> Cc: Chris Boot <bootc@...tc.net>
> Cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: target-devel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/firewire/sbp2.c        | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  include/linux/firewire.h       |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

-- 
Stefan Richter
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