/* * linux/kernel/context.c * * Mechanism for running arbitrary tasks in process context * * dwmw2@redhat.com: Genesis * * andrewm@uow.edu.au: 2.4.0-test12 * - Child reaping * - Support for tasks which re-add themselves * - flush_scheduled_tasks. */ #define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include static DECLARE_TASK_QUEUE(tq_context); static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(context_task_wq); static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(context_task_done); static int keventd_running; static struct task_struct *keventd_task; static int need_keventd(const char *who) { if (keventd_running == 0) printk(KERN_ERR "%s(): keventd has not started\n", who); return keventd_running; } int current_is_keventd(void) { int ret = 0; if (need_keventd(__FUNCTION__)) ret = (current == keventd_task); return ret; } /** * schedule_task - schedule a function for subsequent execution in process context. * @task: pointer to a &tq_struct which defines the function to be scheduled. * * May be called from interrupt context. The scheduled function is run at some * time in the near future by the keventd kernel thread. If it can sleep, it * should be designed to do so for the minimum possible time, as it will be * stalling all other scheduled tasks. * * schedule_task() returns non-zero if the task was successfully scheduled. * If @task is already residing on a task queue then schedule_task() fails * to schedule your task and returns zero. */ int schedule_task(struct tq_struct *task) { int ret; need_keventd(__FUNCTION__); ret = queue_task(task, &tq_context); wake_up(&context_task_wq); return ret; } static int context_thread(void *startup) { struct task_struct *curtask = current; DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, curtask); struct k_sigaction sa; daemonize(); strcpy(curtask->comm, "keventd"); keventd_running = 1; keventd_task = curtask; spin_lock_irq(&curtask->sigmask_lock); siginitsetinv(&curtask->blocked, sigmask(SIGCHLD)); recalc_sigpending(curtask); spin_unlock_irq(&curtask->sigmask_lock); complete((struct completion *)startup); /* Install a handler so SIGCLD is delivered */ sa.sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN; sa.sa.sa_flags = 0; siginitset(&sa.sa.sa_mask, sigmask(SIGCHLD)); do_sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, (struct k_sigaction *)0); /* * If one of the functions on a task queue re-adds itself * to the task queue we call schedule() in state TASK_RUNNING */ for (;;) { set_task_state(curtask, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); add_wait_queue(&context_task_wq, &wait); if (TQ_ACTIVE(tq_context)) set_task_state(curtask, TASK_RUNNING); schedule(); remove_wait_queue(&context_task_wq, &wait); run_task_queue(&tq_context); wake_up(&context_task_done); if (signal_pending(curtask)) { while (waitpid(-1, (unsigned int *)0, __WALL|WNOHANG) > 0) ; spin_lock_irq(&curtask->sigmask_lock); flush_signals(curtask); recalc_sigpending(curtask); spin_unlock_irq(&curtask->sigmask_lock); } } } /** * flush_scheduled_tasks - ensure that any scheduled tasks have run to completion. * * Forces execution of the schedule_task() queue and blocks until its completion. * * If a kernel subsystem uses schedule_task() and wishes to flush any pending * tasks, it should use this function. This is typically used in driver shutdown * handlers. * * The caller should hold no spinlocks and should hold no semaphores which could * cause the scheduled tasks to block. */ static struct tq_struct dummy_task; void flush_scheduled_tasks(void) { int count; DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); /* * Do it twice. It's possible, albeit highly unlikely, that * the caller queued a task immediately before calling us, * and that the eventd thread was already past the run_task_queue() * but not yet into wake_up(), so it woke us up before completing * the caller's queued task or our new dummy task. */ add_wait_queue(&context_task_done, &wait); for (count = 0; count < 2; count++) { set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); /* Queue a dummy task to make sure we get kicked */ schedule_task(&dummy_task); /* Wait for it to complete */ schedule(); } remove_wait_queue(&context_task_done, &wait); } int start_context_thread(void) { static struct completion startup __initdata = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER(startup); kernel_thread(context_thread, &startup, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES); wait_for_completion(&startup); return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_task); EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_scheduled_tasks);