[PATCH] Vmware balloon: switch to using sysem-wide freezableworkqueue

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Fri Jul 08 2011 - 17:17:18 EST


With the arrival of concurrency-managed workqueues there is no need
for our driver to use dedicated workqueue; system-wide one should
suffice just fine.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 31 +++++++++++--------------------
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
index 6df5a55..ca72de3 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@

MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc.");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver");
-MODULE_VERSION("1.2.1.2-k");
+MODULE_VERSION("1.2.1.3-k");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnVMware*:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("vmware_vmmemctl");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ struct vmballoon {
};

static struct vmballoon balloon;
-static struct workqueue_struct *vmballoon_wq;

/*
* Send "start" command to the host, communicating supported version
@@ -674,7 +673,12 @@ static void vmballoon_work(struct work_struct *work)
vmballoon_deflate(b);
}

- queue_delayed_work(vmballoon_wq, dwork, round_jiffies_relative(HZ));
+ /*
+ * We are using freezable workqueue so that balloon operations are
+ * stopped while system transitions to/from sleep/hibernation.
+ */
+ queue_delayed_work(system_freezable_wq,
+ dwork, round_jiffies_relative(HZ));
}

/*
@@ -785,12 +789,6 @@ static int __init vmballoon_init(void)
if (x86_hyper != &x86_hyper_vmware)
return -ENODEV;

- vmballoon_wq = create_freezable_workqueue("vmmemctl");
- if (!vmballoon_wq) {
- pr_err("failed to create workqueue\n");
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&balloon.pages);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&balloon.refused_pages);

@@ -805,34 +803,27 @@ static int __init vmballoon_init(void)
*/
if (!vmballoon_send_start(&balloon)) {
pr_err("failed to send start command to the host\n");
- error = -EIO;
- goto fail;
+ return -EIO;
}

if (!vmballoon_send_guest_id(&balloon)) {
pr_err("failed to send guest ID to the host\n");
- error = -EIO;
- goto fail;
+ return -EIO;
}

error = vmballoon_debugfs_init(&balloon);
if (error)
- goto fail;
+ return error;

- queue_delayed_work(vmballoon_wq, &balloon.dwork, 0);
+ queue_delayed_work(system_freezable_wq, &balloon.dwork, 0);

return 0;
-
-fail:
- destroy_workqueue(vmballoon_wq);
- return error;
}
module_init(vmballoon_init);

static void __exit vmballoon_exit(void)
{
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&balloon.dwork);
- destroy_workqueue(vmballoon_wq);

vmballoon_debugfs_exit(&balloon);

--
1.7.4.1

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