linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

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Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:56:24 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, matthew@....cx,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an
	atomic-bitops safe assignment

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares 
> the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field.

This fixes drivers/connector/connector.c to cope...

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>

diff --git a/drivers/connector/connector.c b/drivers/connector/connector.c
index 5e7cd45..27f377b 100644
--- a/drivers/connector/connector.c
+++ b/drivers/connector/connector.c
@@ -135,9 +135,8 @@ static int cn_call_callback(struct cn_msg *msg, void (*destruct_data)(void *), v
 	spin_lock_bh(&dev->cbdev->queue_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(__cbq, &dev->cbdev->queue_list, callback_entry) {
 		if (cn_cb_equal(&__cbq->id.id, &msg->id)) {
-			if (likely(!test_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING,
-					     &__cbq->work.work.management) &&
-					__cbq->data.ddata == NULL)) {
+			if (likely(!work_pending(&__cbq->work.work) &&
+			    __cbq->data.ddata == NULL)) {
 				__cbq->data.callback_priv = msg;
 
 				__cbq->data.ddata = data;

 

-- 
dwmw2

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