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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-21 07:55:04 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-21 07:55:11 -0400
commit7ed569206ebe7467b9c912b857ec46cf1c361111 (patch)
treec3e0b92cc782439c33ae844e2520819a29700897 /kernel/workqueue.c
parente9d2b064149ff7ef4acbc65a1b9374ac8b218d3e (diff)
parentb30a3f6257ed2105259b404d419b4964e363928c (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc5' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes in -rc5. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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1/* 1/*
2 * linux/kernel/workqueue.c 2 * kernel/workqueue.c - generic async execution with shared worker pool
3 * 3 *
4 * Generic mechanism for defining kernel helper threads for running 4 * Copyright (C) 2002 Ingo Molnar
5 * arbitrary tasks in process context.
6 * 5 *
7 * Started by Ingo Molnar, Copyright (C) 2002 6 * Derived from the taskqueue/keventd code by:
7 * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
8 * Andrew Morton
9 * Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
10 * Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
8 * 11 *
9 * Derived from the taskqueue/keventd code by: 12 * Made to use alloc_percpu by Christoph Lameter.
10 * 13 *
11 * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 14 * Copyright (C) 2010 SUSE Linux Products GmbH
12 * Andrew Morton 15 * Copyright (C) 2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
13 * Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de>
14 * Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
15 * 16 *
16 * Made to use alloc_percpu by Christoph Lameter. 17 * This is the generic async execution mechanism. Work items as are
18 * executed in process context. The worker pool is shared and
19 * automatically managed. There is one worker pool for each CPU and
20 * one extra for works which are better served by workers which are
21 * not bound to any specific CPU.
22 *
23 * Please read Documentation/workqueue.txt for details.
17 */ 24 */
18 25
19#include <linux/module.h> 26#include <linux/module.h>