Re: [RFC] workqueue: dexpose worker

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 08:58:01 EST


You probably wanted to Cc maintainers.

On Wed 18-12-19 11:59:45, Hillf Danton wrote:
>
> It does not make much sense to expose worker, workqueue's internal
> object, to outsiders, and whatever field inside worker as well.
> Nor does worker pool rather than workqueue and work.

But I have to say that this doesn't really make much sense to me.
What is the problem you are trying to solve?

current_is_executing is a really ambiguous name without any relation to
WQ. Also this seems like a pointless code churn to me. Anyway for
maintainers to judge.

>
> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> --- a/kernel/workqueue_internal.h
> +++ b/kernel/workqueue_internal.h
> @@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ static inline struct worker *current_wq_
> return NULL;
> }
>
> +static inline bool current_is_executing(work_func_t func)
> +{
> + struct worker *worker = current_wq_worker();
> +
> + return worker && worker->current_func == func;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Scheduler hooks for concurrency managed workqueue. Only to be used from
> * sched/ and workqueue.c.
> --- a/kernel/async.c
> +++ b/kernel/async.c
> @@ -327,8 +327,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_cook
> */
> bool current_is_async(void)
> {
> - struct worker *worker = current_wq_worker();
> -
> - return worker && worker->current_func == async_run_entry_fn;
> + return current_is_executing(async_run_entry_fn);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(current_is_async);
>

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs