Re: [PATCH 4/9] USB: Convert from tasklet to BH workqueue

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Mar 27 2024 - 12:55:57 EST


On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 04:03:09PM +0000, Allen Pais wrote:
> The only generic interface to execute asynchronously in the BH context is
> tasklet; however, it's marked deprecated and has some design flaws. To
> replace tasklets, BH workqueue support was recently added. A BH workqueue
> behaves similarly to regular workqueues except that the queued work items
> are executed in the BH context.
>
> This patch converts drivers/infiniband/* from tasklet to BH workqueue.

No it does not, I think your changelog is wrong :(

>
> Based on the work done by Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-6.10
>
> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c | 55 +++++++++++++++--------------
> drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.h | 3 +-
> drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 22 ++++++------
> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/fsl_qe_udc.c | 21 +++++------
> drivers/usb/gadget/udc/fsl_qe_udc.h | 4 +--
> drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c | 2 +-
> drivers/usb/host/fhci-hcd.c | 3 +-
> drivers/usb/host/fhci-sched.c | 10 +++---
> drivers/usb/host/fhci.h | 5 +--
> drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgcap.h | 3 +-
> drivers/usb/host/xhci-dbgtty.c | 15 ++++----
> include/linux/usb/cdc_ncm.h | 2 +-
> include/linux/usb/usbnet.h | 2 +-
> 13 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c b/drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c
> index 2da6615fbb6f..74849f24e52e 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> * - Removed the limit on the number of devices
> * - Module now autoloads on device plugin
> * - Merged relevant parts of sarlib
> - * - Replaced the kernel thread with a tasklet
> + * - Replaced the kernel thread with a work

a "work"?

> * - New packet transmission code
> * - Changed proc file contents
> * - Fixed all known SMP races
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
> #include <linux/wait.h>
> #include <linux/kthread.h>
> #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
> +#include <linux/workqueue.h>
>
> #ifdef VERBOSE_DEBUG
> static int usbatm_print_packet(struct usbatm_data *instance, const unsigned char *data, int len);
> @@ -249,7 +250,7 @@ static void usbatm_complete(struct urb *urb)
> /* vdbg("%s: urb 0x%p, status %d, actual_length %d",
> __func__, urb, status, urb->actual_length); */
>
> - /* Can be invoked from task context, protect against interrupts */
> + /* Can be invoked from work context, protect against interrupts */

"workqueue"? This too seems wrong.

Same for other comment changes in this patch.

thanks,

greg k-h