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Oleg Nesterov committed ac3d0da8f32
task_work: Make task_work_add() lockless Change task_work's to use llist-like code to avoid pi_lock in task_work_add(), this makes it useable under rq->lock. task_work_cancel() and task_work_run() still use pi_lock to synchronize with each other. (This is in preparation for a deadlock fix.) Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120826191209.GA4221@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>