workqueue: add documentation

Update copyright notice and add Documentation/workqueue.txt.

Randy Dunlap, Dave Chinner: misc fixes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-By: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 727f24e563ae..f77afd939229 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1,19 +1,26 @@
 /*
- * linux/kernel/workqueue.c
+ * kernel/workqueue.c - generic async execution with shared worker pool
  *
- * Generic mechanism for defining kernel helper threads for running
- * arbitrary tasks in process context.
+ * Copyright (C) 2002           Ingo Molnar
  *
- * Started by Ingo Molnar, Copyright (C) 2002
+ *   Derived from the taskqueue/keventd code by:
+ *     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
+ *     Andrew Morton
+ *     Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
+ *     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
  *
- * Derived from the taskqueue/keventd code by:
+ * Made to use alloc_percpu by Christoph Lameter.
  *
- *   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
- *   Andrew Morton
- *   Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
- *   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
+ * Copyright (C) 2010           SUSE Linux Products GmbH
+ * Copyright (C) 2010           Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
  *
- * Made to use alloc_percpu by Christoph Lameter.
+ * This is the generic async execution mechanism.  Work items as are
+ * executed in process context.  The worker pool is shared and
+ * automatically managed.  There is one worker pool for each CPU and
+ * one extra for works which are better served by workers which are
+ * not bound to any specific CPU.
+ *
+ * Please read Documentation/workqueue.txt for details.
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>