work-simple: Simple work queue implemenation

Provides a framework for enqueuing callbacks from irq context
PREEMPT_RT_FULL safe. The callbacks are executed in kthread context.

Bases on wait-simple.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

include/linux/work-simple.h

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_SWORK_H
+#define _LINUX_SWORK_H
+
+#include <linux/list.h>
+
+struct swork_event {
+	struct list_head item;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	void (*func)(struct swork_event *);
+};
+
+static inline void INIT_SWORK(struct swork_event *event,
+			      void (*func)(struct swork_event *))
+{
+	event->flags = 0;
+	event->func = func;
+}
+
+bool swork_queue(struct swork_event *sev);
+
+int swork_get(void);
+void swork_put(void);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_SWORK_H */

kernel/sched/Makefile

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ endif
 
 obj-y += core.o proc.o clock.o cputime.o
 obj-y += idle_task.o fair.o rt.o deadline.o stop_task.o
-obj-y += wait.o wait-simple.o completion.o
+obj-y += wait.o wait-simple.o work-simple.o completion.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpupri.o cpudeadline.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP) += auto_group.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS) += stats.o

kernel/sched/work-simple.c

@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 BMW Car IT GmbH, Daniel Wagner daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de
+ *
+ * Provides a framework for enqueuing callbacks from irq context
+ * PREEMPT_RT_FULL safe. The callbacks are executed in kthread context.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/wait-simple.h>
+#include <linux/work-simple.h>
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+
+#define SWORK_EVENT_PENDING     (1 << 0)
+
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(worker_mutex);
+static struct sworker *glob_worker;
+
+struct sworker {
+	struct list_head events;
+	struct swait_head wq;
+
+	raw_spinlock_t lock;
+
+	struct task_struct *task;
+	int refs;
+};
+
+static bool swork_readable(struct sworker *worker)
+{
+	bool r;
+
+	if (kthread_should_stop())
+		return true;
+
+	raw_spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
+	r = !list_empty(&worker->events);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
+
+	return r;
+}
+
+static int swork_kthread(void *arg)
+{
+	struct sworker *worker = arg;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		swait_event_interruptible(worker->wq,
+					swork_readable(worker));
+		if (kthread_should_stop())
+			break;
+
+		raw_spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
+		while (!list_empty(&worker->events)) {
+			struct swork_event *sev;
+
+			sev = list_first_entry(&worker->events,
+					struct swork_event, item);
+			list_del(&sev->item);
+			raw_spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
+
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_and_clear_bit(SWORK_EVENT_PENDING,
+							 &sev->flags));
+			sev->func(sev);
+			raw_spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock);
+		}
+		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct sworker *swork_create(void)
+{
+	struct sworker *worker;
+
+	worker = kzalloc(sizeof(*worker), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!worker)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&worker->events);
+	raw_spin_lock_init(&worker->lock);
+	init_swait_head(&worker->wq);
+
+	worker->task = kthread_run(swork_kthread, worker, "kswork");
+	if (IS_ERR(worker->task)) {
+		kfree(worker);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	}
+
+	return worker;
+}
+
+static void swork_destroy(struct sworker *worker)
+{
+	kthread_stop(worker->task);
+
+	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&worker->events));
+	kfree(worker);
+}
+
+/**
+ * swork_queue - queue swork
+ *
+ * Returns %false if @work was already on a queue, %true otherwise.
+ *
+ * The work is queued and processed on a random CPU
+ */
+bool swork_queue(struct swork_event *sev)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	if (test_and_set_bit(SWORK_EVENT_PENDING, &sev->flags))
+		return false;
+
+	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&glob_worker->lock, flags);
+	list_add_tail(&sev->item, &glob_worker->events);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&glob_worker->lock, flags);
+
+	swait_wake(&glob_worker->wq);
+	return true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(swork_queue);
+
+/**
+ * swork_get - get an instance of the sworker
+ *
+ * Returns an negative error code if the initialization if the worker did not
+ * work, %0 otherwise.
+ *
+ */
+int swork_get(void)
+{
+	struct sworker *worker;
+
+	mutex_lock(&worker_mutex);
+	if (!glob_worker) {
+		worker = swork_create();
+		if (IS_ERR(worker)) {
+			mutex_unlock(&worker_mutex);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
+
+		glob_worker = worker;
+	}
+
+	glob_worker->refs++;
+	mutex_unlock(&worker_mutex);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(swork_get);
+
+/**
+ * swork_put - puts an instance of the sworker
+ *
+ * Will destroy the sworker thread. This function must not be called until all
+ * queued events have been completed.
+ */
+void swork_put(void)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&worker_mutex);
+
+	glob_worker->refs--;
+	if (glob_worker->refs > 0)
+		goto out;
+
+	swork_destroy(glob_worker);
+	glob_worker = NULL;
+out:
+	mutex_unlock(&worker_mutex);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(swork_put);