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authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>2020-04-17 09:12:22 +0300
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>2020-04-17 09:12:22 +0300
commit08d99b2c23dfa84ca5b5e5c194062a0550888b71 (patch)
treef4cf81ba52b375bbafd3b7ee2603b3a4cae7fe30 /include/linux/workqueue.h
parent13e3d94110d82e318d640d0980896d32e02ba4d6 (diff)
parent8f3d9f354286745c751374f5f1fcafee6b3f3136 (diff)
downloadlinux-08d99b2c23dfa84ca5b5e5c194062a0550888b71.tar.xz
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next
Backmerging required to pull topic/phy-compliance. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/workqueue.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/workqueue.h20
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index 4261d1c6e87b..8b505d22fc0e 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -487,6 +487,19 @@ extern void wq_worker_comm(char *buf, size_t size, struct task_struct *task);
*
* We queue the work to the CPU on which it was submitted, but if the CPU dies
* it can be processed by another CPU.
+ *
+ * Memory-ordering properties: If it returns %true, guarantees that all stores
+ * preceding the call to queue_work() in the program order will be visible from
+ * the CPU which will execute @work by the time such work executes, e.g.,
+ *
+ * { x is initially 0 }
+ *
+ * CPU0 CPU1
+ *
+ * WRITE_ONCE(x, 1); [ @work is being executed ]
+ * r0 = queue_work(wq, work); r1 = READ_ONCE(x);
+ *
+ * Forbids: r0 == true && r1 == 0
*/
static inline bool queue_work(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
struct work_struct *work)
@@ -546,6 +559,9 @@ static inline bool schedule_work_on(int cpu, struct work_struct *work)
* This puts a job in the kernel-global workqueue if it was not already
* queued and leaves it in the same position on the kernel-global
* workqueue otherwise.
+ *
+ * Shares the same memory-ordering properties of queue_work(), cf. the
+ * DocBook header of queue_work().
*/
static inline bool schedule_work(struct work_struct *work)
{
@@ -649,7 +665,7 @@ int workqueue_online_cpu(unsigned int cpu);
int workqueue_offline_cpu(unsigned int cpu);
#endif
-int __init workqueue_init_early(void);
-int __init workqueue_init(void);
+void __init workqueue_init_early(void);
+void __init workqueue_init(void);
#endif