linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %NULL if work item is idle

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:47:13 +0200
From:	Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko.news@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %NULL if
 work item is idle

Gustavo, could you apply the patch below to bluetooth-next tree, otherwise
it is deadly broken.

Best regards 
Andrei Emeltchenko 

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:39:28PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> From e65120fcfc1cb9697655d29ecd7982451c05d3c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:31:37 -0700
> 
> 57b30ae77b ("workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using
> try_to_grab_pending()") made cancel_delayed_work() always return %true
> unless someone else is also trying to cancel the work item, which is
> broken - if the target work item is idle, the return value should be
> %false.
> 
> try_to_grab_pending() indicates that the target work item was idle by
> zero return value.  Use it for return.  Note that this brings
> cancel_delayed_work() in line with __cancel_work_timer() in return
> value handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> LKML-Reference: <444a6439-b1a4-4740-9e7e-bc37267cfe73@...ault>
> ---
>  kernel/workqueue.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
> index d951daa..042d221 100644
> --- a/kernel/workqueue.c
> +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
> @@ -2982,7 +2982,7 @@ bool cancel_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *dwork)
>  
>  	set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending(&dwork->work, work_cpu(&dwork->work));
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
> -	return true;
> +	return ret;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_delayed_work);
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.7.3
> 
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