This patch removes tq_scheduler from the kernel. All uses of
tq_scheduler are migrated over to use schedule_task().
Notes:
- In two places: drivers/block/paride/pseudo.h and
drivers/net/wan/sdlamain.c we are re-adding tasks to tq_scheduler
within the callback. That means that these functions are being
called _every_ time the machine calls schedule().
It may be a limited case for paride, but sdlamain.c appears to be
doing this wicked thing all the time.
Now, if you do this with the current schedule_task() your machine
will hang up. So schedule_task() has been changed to support this
practice. If we see that the task queue has waiters on it we still
call schedule(), but we do it in state TASK_RUNNING.
- The patch adds to context.c a new API function
run_schedule_tasks() which immediately runs the queued tasks. Must
only be called from process context. serial.c needs this in its
shutdown routines.
- If anyone sleeps in a callback, then all other users of
schedule_task() also sleep. But there's nothing new here. Kinda
makes one wonder why schedule_task exists. But what-hey, it's neat.
- Note the careful massaging of module reference counts.
Yes my friends, much usage of task queues in modules is racy wrt
module removal. This patch fixes some of them.
The approach taken here is to increment the module refcount when we
enqueue a task and to decrement it in the handler:
mainline()
{
...
MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
if (schedule_task(some_wq) == 0)
MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;
}
handler()
{
...
MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;
/* Wheee! Tiny race here */
return;
}
Note that queue_task and schedule_task have been enhanced to return
a success indicator. If this is non-zero you know that your task
will be run. If it returns zero then your tq_struct was already
queued and you lose.
The patch against test11-pre7 (1043 lines) is at
http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/tq_scheduler.patch
It affects the following files:
include/linux/tqueue.h
include/linux/sched.h
include/linux/compatmac.h
arch/ppc/8xx_io/uart.c
arch/ppc/8xx_io/fec.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/uart.c
drivers/net/wan/sdlamain.c
drivers/block/paride/pseudo.h
drivers/char/tty_io.c
drivers/char/esp.c
drivers/char/istallion.c
drivers/char/riscom8.c
drivers/char/serial.c
drivers/char/README.epca
drivers/char/specialix.c
drivers/char/epca.c
drivers/char/isicom.c
drivers/char/moxa.c
drivers/char/mxser.c
drivers/char/stallion.c
drivers/scsi/megaraid.c
drivers/scsi/qla1280.c
drivers/isdn/avmb1/b1capi.c
drivers/isdn/avmb1/kcapi.c
drivers/sbus/char/sab82532.c
drivers/sbus/char/aurora.c
drivers/ide/ide.c
drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.c
drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c
drivers/i2o/i2o_lan.c
fs/smbfs/sock.c
kernel/sched.c
kernel/ksyms.c
kernel/timer.c
kernel/context.c
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