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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2009-01-19 07:45:33 -0500
committerArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2009-02-08 12:56:11 -0500
commitf30d5b307c694e03368ab55f2f96b0ca4131e775 (patch)
tree86f1ceb849bc186e4fa9b64fd8459668f4133390 /kernel/async.c
parent86532d8b167e71e24da8b564348b52977b76d15f (diff)
async: Add some documentation.
Add some kerneldoc to the async interface. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/async.c b/kernel/async.c
index 078d5ed150d1..b5f0d4b94937 100644
--- a/kernel/async.c
+++ b/kernel/async.c
@@ -209,18 +209,43 @@ static async_cookie_t __async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data, struct l
209 return newcookie; 209 return newcookie;
210} 210}
211 211
212/**
213 * async_schedule - schedule a function for asynchronous execution
214 * @ptr: function to execute asynchronously
215 * @data: data pointer to pass to the function
216 *
217 * Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
218 * Note: This function may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
219 */
212async_cookie_t async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data) 220async_cookie_t async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data)
213{ 221{
214 return __async_schedule(ptr, data, &async_running); 222 return __async_schedule(ptr, data, &async_running);
215} 223}
216EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_schedule); 224EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_schedule);
217 225
226/**
227 * async_schedule_special - schedule a function for asynchronous execution with a special running queue
228 * @ptr: function to execute asynchronously
229 * @data: data pointer to pass to the function
230 * @running: list head to add to while running
231 *
232 * Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
233 * @running may be used in the async_synchronize_*_special() functions
234 * to wait on a special running queue rather than on the global running
235 * queue.
236 * Note: This function may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
237 */
218async_cookie_t async_schedule_special(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data, struct list_head *running) 238async_cookie_t async_schedule_special(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data, struct list_head *running)
219{ 239{
220 return __async_schedule(ptr, data, running); 240 return __async_schedule(ptr, data, running);
221} 241}
222EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_schedule_special); 242EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_schedule_special);
223 243
244/**
245 * async_synchronize_full - synchronize all asynchronous function calls
246 *
247 * This function waits until all asynchronous function calls have been done.
248 */
224void async_synchronize_full(void) 249void async_synchronize_full(void)
225{ 250{
226 do { 251 do {
@@ -229,12 +254,27 @@ void async_synchronize_full(void)
229} 254}
230EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_full); 255EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_full);
231 256
257/**
258 * async_synchronize_full_special - synchronize all asynchronous function calls for a running list
259 * @list: running list to synchronize on
260 *
261 * This function waits until all asynchronous function calls for the running
262 * list @list have been done.
263 */
232void async_synchronize_full_special(struct list_head *list) 264void async_synchronize_full_special(struct list_head *list)
233{ 265{
234 async_synchronize_cookie_special(next_cookie, list); 266 async_synchronize_cookie_special(next_cookie, list);
235} 267}
236EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_full_special); 268EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_full_special);
237 269
270/**
271 * async_synchronize_cookie_special - synchronize asynchronous function calls on a running list with cookie checkpointing
272 * @cookie: async_cookie_t to use as checkpoint
273 * @running: running list to synchronize on
274 *
275 * This function waits until all asynchronous function calls for the running
276 * list @list submitted prior to @cookie have been done.
277 */
238void async_synchronize_cookie_special(async_cookie_t cookie, struct list_head *running) 278void async_synchronize_cookie_special(async_cookie_t cookie, struct list_head *running)
239{ 279{
240 ktime_t starttime, delta, endtime; 280 ktime_t starttime, delta, endtime;
@@ -257,6 +297,13 @@ void async_synchronize_cookie_special(async_cookie_t cookie, struct list_head *r
257} 297}
258EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_cookie_special); 298EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_cookie_special);
259 299
300/**
301 * async_synchronize_cookie - synchronize asynchronous function calls with cookie checkpointing
302 * @cookie: async_cookie_t to use as checkpoint
303 *
304 * This function waits until all asynchronous function calls prior to @cookie
305 * have been done.
306 */
260void async_synchronize_cookie(async_cookie_t cookie) 307void async_synchronize_cookie(async_cookie_t cookie)
261{ 308{
262 async_synchronize_cookie_special(cookie, &async_running); 309 async_synchronize_cookie_special(cookie, &async_running);