[PATCH 6/9] nvme: don't use PREPARE_WORK
Tejun Heo
tj at kernel.org
Fri Mar 7 10:26:55 EST 2014
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 03:44:28PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> PREPARE_[DELAYED_]WORK() are being phased out. They have few users
> and a nasty surprise in terms of reentrancy guarantee as workqueue
> considers work items to be different if they don't have the same work
> function.
>
> nvme_dev->reset_work is multiplexed with multiple work functions.
> Introduce nvme_reset_workfn() which invokes nvme_dev->reset_workfn and
> always use it as the work function and update the users to set the
> ->reset_workfn field instead of overriding the work function using
> PREPARE_WORK().
>
> It would probably be best to route this with other related updates
> through the workqueue tree.
>
> Compile tested.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: linux-nvme at lists.infradead.org
Applied to wq/for-3.15. Please holler if there's any objection.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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