In response to an async related regression James noted:
"My theory is that this is an init problem: The assumption in a lot of
our code is that async_synchronize_full() waits for everything ... even
the domain specific async schedules, which isn't true."
...so make this assumption true.
Each domain, including the default one, registers itself on a global domain
list when work is scheduled. Once all entries complete it exits that
list. Waiting for the list to be empty syncs all in-flight work across
all domains.
Domains can opt-out of global syncing if they are declared as exclusive
ASYNC_DOMAIN_EXCLUSIVE(). All stack-based domains have been declared
exclusive since the domain may go out of scope as soon as the last work
item completes.
Statically declared domains are mostly ok, but async_unregister_domain()
is there to close any theoretical races with pending
async_synchronize_full waiters at module removal time.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Eldad Zack <eldadzack@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
This is in preparation for teaching async_synchronize_full() to sync all
pending async work, and not just on the async_running domain. This
conversion is functionally equivalent, just embedding the existing list
in a new async_domain type.
The .registered attribute is used in a later patch to distinguish
between domains that want to be flushed by async_synchronize_full()
versus those that only expect async_synchronize_{full|cookie}_domain to
be used for flushing.
[jejb: add async.h to scsi_priv.h for struct async_domain]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Tested-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Rename the async_*_special() functions to async_*_domain(), which
describes the purpose of these functions much better.
[Broke up long lines to silence checkpatch]
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that
various hardware delays are done sequentially.
In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces
infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps
asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays
in practice.
In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this
patch does NOT do full parallel initialization.
Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may
be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects
(instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Dan Williams
Cornelia Huck
Arjan van de Ven