[tip:sched/core] kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE

From: tip-bot for Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Thu Feb 28 2019 - 05:22:58 EST


Commit-ID: ad01423aedaa7c6dd62d560b73a3cb39e6da3901
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/ad01423aedaa7c6dd62d560b73a3cb39e6da3901
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:25:54 +0100
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:18:38 +0100

kthread: Do not use TIMER_IRQSAFE

The TIMER_IRQSAFE usage was introduced in commit 22597dc3d97b1 ("kthread:
initial support for delayed kthread work") which modelled the delayed
kthread code after workqueue's code. The workqueue code requires the flag
TIMER_IRQSAFE for synchronisation purpose. This is not true for kthread's
delay timer since all operations occur under a lock.

Remove TIMER_IRQSAFE from the timer initialisation and use timer_setup()
for initialisation purpose which is the official function.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190212162554.19779-2-bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

---
include/linux/kthread.h | 5 ++---
kernel/kthread.c | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kthread.h b/include/linux/kthread.h
index 6b8c064f0cbc..3d9d834c66a2 100644
--- a/include/linux/kthread.h
+++ b/include/linux/kthread.h
@@ -164,9 +164,8 @@ extern void __kthread_init_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker,
#define kthread_init_delayed_work(dwork, fn) \
do { \
kthread_init_work(&(dwork)->work, (fn)); \
- __init_timer(&(dwork)->timer, \
- kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn, \
- TIMER_IRQSAFE); \
+ timer_setup(&(dwork)->timer, \
+ kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn, 0); \
} while (0)

int kthread_worker_fn(void *worker_ptr);
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 5641b55783a6..537335541267 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -835,6 +835,7 @@ void kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t)
struct kthread_delayed_work *dwork = from_timer(dwork, t, timer);
struct kthread_work *work = &dwork->work;
struct kthread_worker *worker = work->worker;
+ unsigned long flags;

/*
* This might happen when a pending work is reinitialized.
@@ -843,7 +844,7 @@ void kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t)
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!worker))
return;

- raw_spin_lock(&worker->lock);
+ raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&worker->lock, flags);
/* Work must not be used with >1 worker, see kthread_queue_work(). */
WARN_ON_ONCE(work->worker != worker);

@@ -852,7 +853,7 @@ void kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn(struct timer_list *t)
list_del_init(&work->node);
kthread_insert_work(worker, work, &worker->work_list);

- raw_spin_unlock(&worker->lock);
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn);