Merge branch 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing interesting.  All are doc / comment updates"

* 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: Correct/Drop references to gcwq in Documentation
  workqueue: Fix manage_workers() RETURNS description
  workqueue: Comment correction in file header
  workqueue: mark WQ_NON_REENTRANT deprecated
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Linus Torvalds
2013-09-03 18:19:21 -07:00
3 changed files with 57 additions and 54 deletions

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@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@
*
* This is the generic async execution mechanism. Work items as are
* executed in process context. The worker pool is shared and
* automatically managed. There is one worker pool for each CPU and
* one extra for works which are better served by workers which are
* not bound to any specific CPU.
* automatically managed. There are two worker pools for each CPU (one for
* normal work items and the other for high priority ones) and some extra
* pools for workqueues which are not bound to any specific CPU - the
* number of these backing pools is dynamic.
*
* Please read Documentation/workqueue.txt for details.
*/
@@ -2033,8 +2034,11 @@ static bool maybe_destroy_workers(struct worker_pool *pool)
* multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations.
*
* RETURNS:
* spin_lock_irq(pool->lock) which may be released and regrabbed
* multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations.
* %false if the pool don't need management and the caller can safely start
* processing works, %true indicates that the function released pool->lock
* and reacquired it to perform some management function and that the
* conditions that the caller verified while holding the lock before
* calling the function might no longer be true.
*/
static bool manage_workers(struct worker *worker)
{