Re: Implement complete_all() with swait

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:17:04 +0200
Daniel Wagner <wagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> So I went through the list of users and tried to identify which of them 
> is going to make troubles. I found 4 users which are using 
> complete_all() while IRQs are disabled. The rest looks like it just 
> would work nice. I already fixed up a bunch of drivers which use 
> complete_all() just to make really sure the single waiter is woken up. 
> This list does only contain proper complete_all() users.
> 

I wonder if we can just create a separate thread or workqueue that
performs the complete all, and have the callers of complete_all() that
are currently under irqs disabled simply wake up the thread/workqueue
to perform the complete_all() with interrupts enabled?

-- Steve