From: Oleg Nesterov Because it has no callers. Actually, I think the whole idea of run_scheduled_work() was not right, not good to mix "unqueue this work and execute its ->func()" in one function. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/workqueue.h | 1 kernel/workqueue.c | 73 ------------------------------------ 2 files changed, 74 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/workqueue.h~workqueue-kill-run_scheduled_work include/linux/workqueue.h --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h~workqueue-kill-run_scheduled_work +++ a/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -182,7 +182,6 @@ extern void flush_work(struct workqueue_ extern void flush_work_keventd(struct work_struct *work); extern int FASTCALL(schedule_work(struct work_struct *work)); -extern int FASTCALL(run_scheduled_work(struct work_struct *work)); extern int FASTCALL(schedule_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *work, unsigned long delay)); extern int schedule_delayed_work_on(int cpu, struct delayed_work *work, unsigned long delay); diff -puN kernel/workqueue.c~workqueue-kill-run_scheduled_work kernel/workqueue.c --- a/kernel/workqueue.c~workqueue-kill-run_scheduled_work +++ a/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -98,79 +98,6 @@ static inline void *get_wq_data(struct w return (void *) (atomic_long_read(&work->data) & WORK_STRUCT_WQ_DATA_MASK); } -static int __run_work(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq, struct work_struct *work) -{ - int ret = 0; - unsigned long flags; - - spin_lock_irqsave(&cwq->lock, flags); - /* - * We need to re-validate the work info after we've gotten - * the cpu_workqueue lock. We can run the work now iff: - * - * - the wq_data still matches the cpu_workqueue_struct - * - AND the work is still marked pending - * - AND the work is still on a list (which will be this - * workqueue_struct list) - * - * All these conditions are important, because we - * need to protect against the work being run right - * now on another CPU (all but the last one might be - * true if it's currently running and has not been - * released yet, for example). - */ - if (get_wq_data(work) == cwq - && work_pending(work) - && !list_empty(&work->entry)) { - work_func_t f = work->func; - cwq->current_work = work; - list_del_init(&work->entry); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cwq->lock, flags); - - if (!test_bit(WORK_STRUCT_NOAUTOREL, work_data_bits(work))) - work_release(work); - f(work); - - spin_lock_irqsave(&cwq->lock, flags); - cwq->current_work = NULL; - ret = 1; - } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cwq->lock, flags); - return ret; -} - -/** - * run_scheduled_work - run scheduled work synchronously - * @work: work to run - * - * This checks if the work was pending, and runs it - * synchronously if so. It returns a boolean to indicate - * whether it had any scheduled work to run or not. - * - * NOTE! This _only_ works for normal work_structs. You - * CANNOT use this for delayed work, because the wq data - * for delayed work will not point properly to the per- - * CPU workqueue struct, but will change! - */ -int fastcall run_scheduled_work(struct work_struct *work) -{ - for (;;) { - struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq; - - if (!work_pending(work)) - return 0; - if (list_empty(&work->entry)) - return 0; - /* NOTE! This depends intimately on __queue_work! */ - cwq = get_wq_data(work); - if (!cwq) - return 0; - if (__run_work(cwq, work)) - return 1; - } -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(run_scheduled_work); - static void insert_work(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq, struct work_struct *work, int tail) { _