From 3989144f863ac576e6efba298d24b0b02a10d4bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Mladek Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:55:20 -0700 Subject: kthread: kthread worker API cleanup A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name of the subsystem. The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues. Each worker has a dedicated kthread. It runs a generic function that process queued works. It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem. This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by kthread_: __init_kthread_worker() -> __kthread_init_worker() init_kthread_worker() -> kthread_init_worker() init_kthread_work() -> kthread_init_work() insert_kthread_work() -> kthread_insert_work() queue_kthread_work() -> kthread_queue_work() flush_kthread_work() -> kthread_flush_work() flush_kthread_worker() -> kthread_flush_worker() Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has precedence over the subsystem names. Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several reasons for this solution: + "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize" aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer". + INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros + init() functions are used close to the other kthread() functions. It looks much better if all the functions use the same scheme. + There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related to the init() function. Again it looks better if all functions use the same naming scheme. + there are several precedents for such init() function names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(), jump_label_init_type(), regmap_init_mmio_clk(), + It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before. [arnd@arndb.de: fix linux-next merge conflict] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908135724.1311726-1-arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/RCU') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt index bf9061142827..238e9f61352f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Call Trace: [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [] ? finish_task_switch+0x80/0x110 [] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe - [] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70 + [] ? __kthread_init_worker+0x70/0x70 [] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb Line 2776 of block/cfq-iosched.c in v3.0-rc5 is as follows: -- cgit v1.2.3