[GIT PULL] workqueue changes for v3.17-rc1

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 09:56:58 EST


Hello, Linus.

Lai has been doing a lot of cleanups of workqueue and kthread_work.
No significant behavior change. Just a lot of cleanups all over the
place. Some are a bit invasive but overall nothing too dangerous.

Thanks.

The following changes since commit ebe06187bf2aec10d537ce4595e416035367d703:

epoll: fix use-after-free in eventpoll_release_file (2014-06-16 17:21:59 -1000)

are available in the git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-3.17

for you to fetch changes up to 95847e1bd34c0de86039408b24a05f07e788061d:

kthread_work: remove the unused wait_queue_head (2014-07-28 14:16:30 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Lai Jiangshan (20):
workqueue: use "pool->cpu < 0" to stand for an unbound pool
workqueue: remove the empty check in too_many_workers()
workqueue: use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of open code
workqueue: remove useless WARN_ON_ONCE()
workqueue: clear leftover flags when detached
workqueue: sanity check pool->cpu in wq_worker_sleeping()
workqueue: clear POOL_DISASSOCIATED in rebind_workers()
workqueue: stronger test in process_one_work()
workqueue: reuse the already calculated pwq in try_to_grab_pending()
workqueue: alloc struct worker on its local node
workqueue: wake regular worker if need_more_worker() when rescuer leave the pool
workqueue: remove an unneeded UNBOUND test before waking up the next worker
workqueue: remove @wakeup from worker_set_flags()
workqueue: unfold start_worker() into create_worker()
workqueue: move rescuer pool detachment to the end
workqueue: remove the stale comment in pwq_unbound_release_workfn()
workqueue: remove the misnamed out_unlock label in get_unbound_pool()
workqueue: use nr_node_ids instead of wq_numa_tbl_len
kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle
kthread_work: remove the unused wait_queue_head

include/linux/kthread.h | 13 +---
kernel/kthread.c | 2 +-
kernel/workqueue.c | 200 +++++++++++++++---------------------------------
3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 151 deletions(-)

--
tejun
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