linux-stable/include/linux/task_work.h
Oleg Nesterov e73f8959af task_work_add: generic process-context callbacks
Provide a simple mechanism that allows running code in the (nonatomic)
context of the arbitrary task.

The caller does task_work_add(task, task_work) and this task executes
task_work->func() either from do_notify_resume() or from do_exit().  The
callback can rely on PF_EXITING to detect the latter case.

"struct task_work" can be embedded in another struct, still it has "void
*data" to handle the most common/simple case.

This allows us to kill the ->replacement_session_keyring hack, and
potentially this can have more users.

Performance-wise, this adds 2 "unlikely(!hlist_empty())" checks into
tracehook_notify_resume() and do_exit().  But at the same time we can
remove the "replacement_session_keyring != NULL" checks from
arch/*/signal.c and exit_creds().

Note: task_work_add/task_work_run abuses ->pi_lock.  This is only because
this lock is already used by lookup_pi_state() to synchronize with
do_exit() setting PF_EXITING.  Fortunately the scope of this lock in
task_work.c is really tiny, and the code is unlikely anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-23 22:09:21 -04:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_TASK_WORK_H
#define _LINUX_TASK_WORK_H
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
struct task_work;
typedef void (*task_work_func_t)(struct task_work *);
struct task_work {
struct hlist_node hlist;
task_work_func_t func;
void *data;
};
static inline void
init_task_work(struct task_work *twork, task_work_func_t func, void *data)
{
twork->func = func;
twork->data = data;
}
int task_work_add(struct task_struct *task, struct task_work *twork, bool);
struct task_work *task_work_cancel(struct task_struct *, task_work_func_t);
void task_work_run(void);
static inline void exit_task_work(struct task_struct *task)
{
if (unlikely(!hlist_empty(&task->task_works)))
task_work_run();
}
#endif /* _LINUX_TASK_WORK_H */