workqueue: add 'flush_delayed_work()' to run and wait for delayed work
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:16:42 +0000 (09:16 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:11:35 +0000 (15:11 -0700)
commit8c53e46314562fe814b0afef6cfcbd2f562b017c
treee9b68a33c470a91967c5930438e93beeb3126c50
parentc8e33141911bf8fe87dc6c92793b9a59b2be0130
workqueue: add 'flush_delayed_work()' to run and wait for delayed work

It basically turns a delayed work into an immediate work, and then waits
for it to finish, thus allowing you to force (and wait for) an immediate
flush of a delayed work.

We'll want to use this in the tty layer to clean up tty_flush_to_ldisc().

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Fixed to use 'del_timer_sync()' as noted by Oleg ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/workqueue.h
kernel/workqueue.c