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delayed_work has been annoyingly missing the mechanism to modify timer
of a pending delayed_work - ie. mod_timer() counterpart. delayed_work
users have been working around this using several methods - using an
explicit timer + work item, messing directly with delayed_work->timer,
and canceling before re-queueing, all of which are error-prone and/or
ugly.

Gustavo Padovan posted a RFC implementation[1] of mod_delayed_work() a
while back but it wasn't complete. To properly implement
mod_delayed_work[_on](), it should be able to steal pending work items
which may be on timer or worklist or anywhere inbetween. This is
similar to what __cancel_work_timer() does but it turns out that there
are a lot of holes around this area and try_to_grab_pending() needs
considerable amount of work to be used for other purposes too.

This patchset improves canceling and try_to_grab_pending(), use it to
implement mod_delayed_work[_on](), convert easy ones, and drop
__cancel_delayed_work_sync() which doesn't have relevant users
afterwards.

Changes from the first take[L] are,

* All updated patches rolled into the series and Acked-by's added.a

* Tomi Valkeinen pointed out that mod_delayed_work() can't be called
from IRQ handlers and thus can't replace __cancel_delayed_work()
users. __cancel_delayed_work() users dropped from conversion. This
will be handled by a future patchset.

* Ensuring preemtion is disabled across PENDING manipulation doesn't
make try_to_grab_pending() safe to use from bh context and making it
impossible to replace even cancel_delayed_work() users. Whole patch
series updated so that IRQ is disabled across PENDING manipulation
instead. As most operations had to grab gcwq->lock anyway, this
doesn't add extra IRQ toggling.

* try_to_grab_pending() and __cancel_work_timer() updated to take bool
@is_dwork instead of @timer and disable IRQ on successful return.

This patchset contains the following fourteen patches.

0001-workqueue-reorder-queueing-functions-so-that-_on-var.patch
0002-workqueue-make-queueing-functions-return-bool.patch
0003-workqueue-add-missing-smp_wmb-in-process_one_work.patch
0004-workqueue-disable-irq-while-manipulating-PENDING.patch
0005-workqueue-set-delayed_work-timer-function-on-initial.patch
0006-workqueue-unify-local-CPU-queueing-handling.patch
0007-workqueue-fix-zero-delay-handling-of-queue_delayed_w.patch
0008-workqueue-move-try_to_grab_pending-upwards.patch
0009-workqueue-introduce-WORK_OFFQ_FLAG_.patch
0010-workqueue-factor-out-__queue_delayed_work-from-queue.patch
0011-workqueue-reorganize-try_to_grab_pending-and-__cance.patch
0012-workqueue-mark-a-work-item-being-canceled-as-such.patch
0013-workqueue-implement-mod_delayed_work-_on.patch
0014-workqueue-use-mod_delayed_work-instead-of-cancel-que.patch

0001-0003 are preparatory.

0004 removes the possibility of cancel_sync spinning for extended
period of time while another task holding PENDING is preempted or
interrupted.

0005-0007 clean up local queueing handling.

0008-0011 prepare for try_to_grab_pending() improvements.

0012 makes try_to_grab_pending() distinguish transient failure which
can be safely busy-retried and failure because the work item is being
canceled, which may take arbitrary amount of time.

0013 uses the improved try_to_grab_pending() to implement
mod_delayed_work[_on]().

0014 converts cancel + queue sequences to mod_delayed_work().

This patchset is also available at the following git branch.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git review-wq-mod_delayed

If nobody objects, I'd like to route this series through wq/for-3.7.
Changes to other subsystems are fairly localized and conflicts, if
they occur, shouldn't be too painful to handle.

Although this ends up adding ~130 LOC, it contains a lot more
documentation, converted only the apparent ones, and IMHO is
worthwhile to have regardless as it removes an annoyance which is
pretty easy to encounter while using delayed_work.

Thanks.

block/genhd.c | 6
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 17
drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c | 4
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_hw.c | 6
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c | 5
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c | 8
drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_usb.c | 3
drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 20
drivers/power/charger-manager.c | 9
drivers/power/ds2760_battery.c | 9
drivers/power/jz4740-battery.c | 6
drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c | 15
fs/afs/callback.c | 4
fs/afs/server.c | 10
fs/afs/vlocation.c | 14
fs/nfs/nfs4renewd.c | 3
include/linux/workqueue.h | 47 +-
kernel/workqueue.c | 732 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
net/core/dst.c | 4
net/rfkill/input.c | 3
20 files changed, 526 insertions(+), 399 deletions(-)

--
tejun

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1159922
[L] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1334546


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