workqueue: Allow retrieval of current task's work struct

Introduce a helper to retrieve the current task's work struct if it is
a workqueue worker.

This allows us to fix a long-standing deadlock in several DRM drivers
wherein the ->runtime_suspend callback waits for a specific worker to
finish and that worker in turn calls a function which waits for runtime
suspend to finish.  That function is invoked from multiple call sites
and waiting for runtime suspend to finish is the correct thing to do
except if it's executing in the context of the worker.

Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/2d8f603074131eb87e588d2b803a71765bd3a2fd.1518338788.git.lukas@wunner.de

diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index 4a54ef96aff5b0ba8e9bf53cc754d09c0dd4dd55..bc0cda180c8b701a154182b5dbc6a7f5b9da840a 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ extern bool cancel_delayed_work_sync(struct delayed_work *dwork);
 
 extern void workqueue_set_max_active(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
                                     int max_active);
+extern struct work_struct *current_work(void);
 extern bool current_is_workqueue_rescuer(void);
 extern bool workqueue_congested(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq);
 extern unsigned int work_busy(struct work_struct *work);

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 43d18cb46308385865d14ce40906c4646d378063..255c20efdf7bd468a5ffd9dd7d317c2582c9790c 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4167,6 +4167,22 @@ void workqueue_set_max_active(struct workqueue_struct *wq, int max_active)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(workqueue_set_max_active);
 
+/**
+ * current_work - retrieve %current task's work struct
+ *
+ * Determine if %current task is a workqueue worker and what it's working on.
+ * Useful to find out the context that the %current task is running in.
+ *
+ * Return: work struct if %current task is a workqueue worker, %NULL otherwise.
+ */
+struct work_struct *current_work(void)
+{
+       struct worker *worker = current_wq_worker();
+
+       return worker ? worker->current_work : NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(current_work);
+
 /**
  * current_is_workqueue_rescuer - is %current workqueue rescuer?
  *