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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> | 2007-07-15 23:41:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-16 09:05:51 -0700 |
| commit | 1f1f642e2f092e37eb9038060eb0100c44f55a11 (patch) | |
| tree | 73dea7896dea85dcf5cfa13b9e3ebf9645868160 /include/linux/workqueue.h | |
| parent | f5a421a4509a7e2dff11da0f01b0548f4f84d503 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-1f1f642e2f092e37eb9038060eb0100c44f55a11.tar.gz lwn-1f1f642e2f092e37eb9038060eb0100c44f55a11.zip | |
make cancel_xxx_work_sync() return a boolean
Change cancel_work_sync() and cancel_delayed_work_sync() to return a boolean
indicating whether the work was actually cancelled. A zero return value means
that the work was not pending/queued.
Without that kind of change it is not possible to avoid flush_workqueue()
sometimes, see the next patch as an example.
Also, this patch unifies both functions and kills the (unlikely) busy-wait
loop.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/workqueue.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/workqueue.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index 5c89ac6e7f55..ce6badc98f6d 100644 --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ extern int keventd_up(void); extern void init_workqueues(void); int execute_in_process_context(work_func_t fn, struct execute_work *); -extern void cancel_work_sync(struct work_struct *work); +extern int cancel_work_sync(struct work_struct *work); /* * Kill off a pending schedule_delayed_work(). Note that the work callback @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static inline int cancel_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *work) return ret; } -extern void cancel_delayed_work_sync(struct delayed_work *work); +extern int cancel_delayed_work_sync(struct delayed_work *work); /* Obsolete. use cancel_delayed_work_sync() */ static inline |