linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 11/12] kthread: Allow to modify delayed kthread work

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:29:03 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 11/12] kthread: Allow to modify delayed kthread work

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:17:30PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> There are situations when we need to modify the delay of a delayed kthread
> work. For example, when the work depends on an event and the initial delay
> means a timeout. Then we want to queue the work immediately when the event
> happens.
> 
> This patch implements kthread_mod_delayed_work() as inspired workqueues.
> It cancels the timer, removes the work from any worker list and queues it
> again with the given timeout.
> 
> A very special case is when the work is being canceled at the same time.
> It might happen because of the regular kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
> or by another kthread_mod_delayed_work(). In this case, we do nothing and
> let the other operation win. This should not normally happen as the caller
> is supposed to synchronize these operations a reasonable way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun