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+/* Worker thread pool for slow items, such as filesystem lookups or mkdirs
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/slow-work.txt
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_SLOW_WORK_H
+#define _LINUX_SLOW_WORK_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLOW_WORK
+
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+#include <linux/timer.h>
+
+struct slow_work;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
+struct seq_file;
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * The operations used to support slow work items
+ */
+struct slow_work_ops {
+ /* owner */
+ struct module *owner;
+
+ /* get a ref on a work item
+ * - return 0 if successful, -ve if not
+ */
+ int (*get_ref)(struct slow_work *work);
+
+ /* discard a ref to a work item */
+ void (*put_ref)(struct slow_work *work);
+
+ /* execute a work item */
+ void (*execute)(struct slow_work *work);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
+ /* describe a work item for debugfs */
+ void (*desc)(struct slow_work *work, struct seq_file *m);
+#endif
+};
+
+/*
+ * A slow work item
+ * - A reference is held on the parent object by the thread pool when it is
+ * queued
+ */
+struct slow_work {
+ struct module *owner; /* the owning module */
+ unsigned long flags;
+#define SLOW_WORK_PENDING 0 /* item pending (further) execution */
+#define SLOW_WORK_EXECUTING 1 /* item currently executing */
+#define SLOW_WORK_ENQ_DEFERRED 2 /* item enqueue deferred */
+#define SLOW_WORK_VERY_SLOW 3 /* item is very slow */
+#define SLOW_WORK_CANCELLING 4 /* item is being cancelled, don't enqueue */
+#define SLOW_WORK_DELAYED 5 /* item is struct delayed_slow_work with active timer */
+ const struct slow_work_ops *ops; /* operations table for this item */
+ struct list_head link; /* link in queue */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_DEBUG
+ struct timespec mark; /* jiffies at which queued or exec begun */
+#endif
+};
+
+struct delayed_slow_work {
+ struct slow_work work;
+ struct timer_list timer;
+};
+
+/**
+ * slow_work_init - Initialise a slow work item
+ * @work: The work item to initialise
+ * @ops: The operations to use to handle the slow work item
+ *
+ * Initialise a slow work item.
+ */
+static inline void slow_work_init(struct slow_work *work,
+ const struct slow_work_ops *ops)
+{
+ work->flags = 0;
+ work->ops = ops;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&work->link);
+}
+
+/**
+ * slow_work_init - Initialise a delayed slow work item
+ * @work: The work item to initialise
+ * @ops: The operations to use to handle the slow work item
+ *
+ * Initialise a delayed slow work item.
+ */
+static inline void delayed_slow_work_init(struct delayed_slow_work *dwork,
+ const struct slow_work_ops *ops)
+{
+ init_timer(&dwork->timer);
+ slow_work_init(&dwork->work, ops);
+}
+
+/**
+ * vslow_work_init - Initialise a very slow work item
+ * @work: The work item to initialise
+ * @ops: The operations to use to handle the slow work item
+ *
+ * Initialise a very slow work item. This item will be restricted such that
+ * only a certain number of the pool threads will be able to execute items of
+ * this type.
+ */
+static inline void vslow_work_init(struct slow_work *work,
+ const struct slow_work_ops *ops)
+{
+ work->flags = 1 << SLOW_WORK_VERY_SLOW;
+ work->ops = ops;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&work->link);
+}
+
+/**
+ * slow_work_is_queued - Determine if a slow work item is on the work queue
+ * work: The work item to test
+ *
+ * Determine if the specified slow-work item is on the work queue. This
+ * returns true if it is actually on the queue.
+ *
+ * If the item is executing and has been marked for requeue when execution
+ * finishes, then false will be returned.
+ *
+ * Anyone wishing to wait for completion of execution can wait on the
+ * SLOW_WORK_EXECUTING bit.
+ */
+static inline bool slow_work_is_queued(struct slow_work *work)
+{
+ unsigned long flags = work->flags;
+ return flags & SLOW_WORK_PENDING && !(flags & SLOW_WORK_EXECUTING);
+}
+
+extern int slow_work_enqueue(struct slow_work *work);
+extern void slow_work_cancel(struct slow_work *work);
+extern int slow_work_register_user(struct module *owner);
+extern void slow_work_unregister_user(struct module *owner);
+
+extern int delayed_slow_work_enqueue(struct delayed_slow_work *dwork,
+ unsigned long delay);
+
+static inline void delayed_slow_work_cancel(struct delayed_slow_work *dwork)
+{
+ slow_work_cancel(&dwork->work);
+}
+
+extern bool slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed(struct slow_work *work,
+ signed long *_timeout);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+extern ctl_table slow_work_sysctls[];
+#endif
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SLOW_WORK */
+#endif /* _LINUX_SLOW_WORK_H */