Vmware balloon: switch to using sysem-wide freezable workqueue
authorDmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:08:56 +0000 (16:08 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:49:45 +0000 (16:49 -0700)
With the arrival of concurrency-managed workqueues there is no need for
our driver to use dedicated workqueue; system-wide one should suffice just
fine.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout & grammar]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c

index 6df5a55da110170ec9a5f0cbada06834fa1dc046..053d36caf955b698d0c1739c2a2b48ca53107bad 100644 (file)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc.");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver");
-MODULE_VERSION("1.2.1.2-k");
+MODULE_VERSION("1.2.1.3-k");
 MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnVMware*:*");
 MODULE_ALIAS("vmware_vmmemctl");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ struct vmballoon {
 };
 
 static struct vmballoon balloon;
-static struct workqueue_struct *vmballoon_wq;
 
 /*
  * Send "start" command to the host, communicating supported version
@@ -674,7 +673,12 @@ static void vmballoon_work(struct work_struct *work)
                        vmballoon_deflate(b);
        }
 
-       queue_delayed_work(vmballoon_wq, dwork, round_jiffies_relative(HZ));
+       /*
+        * We are using a freezable workqueue so that balloon operations are
+        * stopped while the system transitions to/from sleep/hibernation.
+        */
+       queue_delayed_work(system_freezable_wq,
+                          dwork, round_jiffies_relative(HZ));
 }
 
 /*
@@ -785,12 +789,6 @@ static int __init vmballoon_init(void)
        if (x86_hyper != &x86_hyper_vmware)
                return -ENODEV;
 
-       vmballoon_wq = create_freezable_workqueue("vmmemctl");
-       if (!vmballoon_wq) {
-               pr_err("failed to create workqueue\n");
-               return -ENOMEM;
-       }
-
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&balloon.pages);
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&balloon.refused_pages);
 
@@ -805,34 +803,27 @@ static int __init vmballoon_init(void)
         */
        if (!vmballoon_send_start(&balloon)) {
                pr_err("failed to send start command to the host\n");
-               error = -EIO;
-               goto fail;
+               return -EIO;
        }
 
        if (!vmballoon_send_guest_id(&balloon)) {
                pr_err("failed to send guest ID to the host\n");
-               error = -EIO;
-               goto fail;
+               return -EIO;
        }
 
        error = vmballoon_debugfs_init(&balloon);
        if (error)
-               goto fail;
+               return error;
 
-       queue_delayed_work(vmballoon_wq, &balloon.dwork, 0);
+       queue_delayed_work(system_freezable_wq, &balloon.dwork, 0);
 
        return 0;
-
-fail:
-       destroy_workqueue(vmballoon_wq);
-       return error;
 }
 module_init(vmballoon_init);
 
 static void __exit vmballoon_exit(void)
 {
        cancel_delayed_work_sync(&balloon.dwork);
-       destroy_workqueue(vmballoon_wq);
 
        vmballoon_debugfs_exit(&balloon);