Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/5] workqueue: Allow retrieval of current task's work struct

Hello, On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:38:28AM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote: > Introduce a helper to retrieve the current task's work struct if it is > a workqueue worker. > > This allows us to fix a long-standing deadlock in several DRM drivers > wherein the ->runtime_suspend callback waits for a specif

[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/5] workqueue: Allow retrieval of current task's work struct

Introduce a helper to retrieve the current task's work struct if it is a workqueue worker. This allows us to fix a long-standing deadlock in several DRM drivers wherein the ->runtime_suspend callback waits for a specific worker to finish and that worker in turn calls a function which waits for run