Re: [PATCH 7/9] afs: don't use PREPARE_WORK

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 03:44:29PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> PREPARE_[DELAYED_]WORK() are being phased out.  They have few users
> and a nasty surprise in terms of reentrancy guarantee as workqueue
> considers work items to be different if they don't have the same work
> function.
> 
> afs_call->async_work is multiplexed with multiple work functions.
> Introduce afs_async_workfn() which invokes afs_call->async_workfn and
> always use it as the work function and update the users to set the
> ->async_workfn field instead of overriding the work function using
> PREPARE_WORK().
> 
> It would probably be best to route this with other related updates
> through the workqueue tree.
> 
> Compile tested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Applied to wq/for-3.15.  Please holler if there's any objection.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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