linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] task_work: Introduce task_work

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:58:10 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] task_work: Introduce task_work_cancel() again

Re-introduce task_work_cancel(), this time to cancel an actual callback
and not *any* callback pointing to a given function. This is going to be
needed for perf events event freeing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/task_work.h |  1 +
 kernel/task_work.c        | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/task_work.h b/include/linux/task_work.h
index 89ee2cbf044b..58e42ef59580 100644
--- a/include/linux/task_work.h
+++ b/include/linux/task_work.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ int task_work_add(struct task_struct *task, struct callback_head *twork,
 struct callback_head *task_work_cancel_match(struct task_struct *task,
 	bool (*match)(struct callback_head *, void *data), void *data);
 struct callback_head *task_work_cancel_func(struct task_struct *, task_work_func_t);
+bool task_work_cancel(struct task_struct *, struct callback_head *twork);
 void task_work_run(void);
 
 static inline void exit_task_work(struct task_struct *task)
diff --git a/kernel/task_work.c b/kernel/task_work.c
index c1b4d3ba2590..9e85ac7632ae 100644
--- a/kernel/task_work.c
+++ b/kernel/task_work.c
@@ -136,6 +136,30 @@ task_work_cancel_func(struct task_struct *task, task_work_func_t func)
 	return task_work_cancel_match(task, task_work_func_match, func);
 }
 
+static bool task_work_match(struct callback_head *cb, void *data)
+{
+	return cb == data;
+}
+
+/**
+ * task_work_cancel - cancel a pending work added by task_work_add()
+ * @task: the task which should execute the work
+ * @func: the work to remove if queued
+ *
+ * Remove a callback from a task's queue if queued.
+ *
+ * RETURNS:
+ * True if the callback was queued and got cancelled, false otherwise.
+ */
+bool task_work_cancel(struct task_struct *task, struct callback_head *cb)
+{
+	struct callback_head *ret;
+
+	ret = task_work_cancel_match(task, task_work_match, cb);
+
+	return ret == cb;
+}
+
 /**
  * task_work_run - execute the works added by task_work_add()
  *
-- 
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