linux/kernel/async.c

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
 * async.c: Asynchronous function calls for boot performance
 *
 * (C) Copyright 2009 Intel Corporation
 * Author: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
 */


/*

Goals and Theory of Operation

The primary goal of this feature is to reduce the kernel boot time,
by doing various independent hardware delays and discovery operations
decoupled and not strictly serialized.

More specifically, the asynchronous function call concept allows
certain operations (primarily during system boot) to happen
asynchronously, out of order, while these operations still
have their externally visible parts happen sequentially and in-order.
(not unlike how out-of-order CPUs retire their instructions in order)

Key to the asynchronous function call implementation is the concept of
a "sequence cookie" (which, although it has an abstracted type, can be
thought of as a monotonically incrementing number).

The async core will assign each scheduled event such a sequence cookie and
pass this to the called functions.

The asynchronously called function should before doing a globally visible
operation, such as registering device numbers, call the
async_synchronize_cookie() function and pass in its own cookie. The
async_synchronize_cookie() function will make sure that all asynchronous
operations that were scheduled prior to the operation corresponding with the
cookie have completed.

Subsystem/driver initialization code that scheduled asynchronous probe
functions, but which shares global resources with other drivers/subsystems
that do not use the asynchronous call feature, need to do a full
synchronization with the async_synchronize_full() function, before returning
from their init function. This is to maintain strict ordering between the
asynchronous and synchronous parts of the kernel.

*/

#include <linux/async.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/ktime.h>
#include <linux/pid.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>

#include "workqueue_internal.h"

static async_cookie_t next_cookie = …;

#define MAX_WORK …
#define ASYNC_COOKIE_MAX …

static LIST_HEAD(async_global_pending);	/* pending from all registered doms */
static ASYNC_DOMAIN(async_dfl_domain);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(async_lock);
static struct workqueue_struct *async_wq;

struct async_entry { … };

static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(async_done);

static atomic_t entry_count;

static long long microseconds_since(ktime_t start)
{ … }

static async_cookie_t lowest_in_progress(struct async_domain *domain)
{ … }

/*
 * pick the first pending entry and run it
 */
static void async_run_entry_fn(struct work_struct *work)
{ … }

static async_cookie_t __async_schedule_node_domain(async_func_t func,
						   void *data, int node,
						   struct async_domain *domain,
						   struct async_entry *entry)
{ … }

/**
 * async_schedule_node_domain - NUMA specific version of async_schedule_domain
 * @func: function to execute asynchronously
 * @data: data pointer to pass to the function
 * @node: NUMA node that we want to schedule this on or close to
 * @domain: the domain
 *
 * Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
 * @domain may be used in the async_synchronize_*_domain() functions to
 * wait within a certain synchronization domain rather than globally.
 *
 * Note: This function may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
 *
 * The node requested will be honored on a best effort basis. If the node
 * has no CPUs associated with it then the work is distributed among all
 * available CPUs.
 */
async_cookie_t async_schedule_node_domain(async_func_t func, void *data,
					  int node, struct async_domain *domain)
{ … }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(…);

/**
 * async_schedule_node - NUMA specific version of async_schedule
 * @func: function to execute asynchronously
 * @data: data pointer to pass to the function
 * @node: NUMA node that we want to schedule this on or close to
 *
 * Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
 * Note: This function may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
 *
 * The node requested will be honored on a best effort basis. If the node
 * has no CPUs associated with it then the work is distributed among all
 * available CPUs.
 */
async_cookie_t async_schedule_node(async_func_t func, void *data, int node)
{ … }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(…);

/**
 * async_schedule_dev_nocall - A simplified variant of async_schedule_dev()
 * @func: function to execute asynchronously
 * @dev: device argument to be passed to function
 *
 * @dev is used as both the argument for the function and to provide NUMA
 * context for where to run the function.
 *
 * If the asynchronous execution of @func is scheduled successfully, return
 * true. Otherwise, do nothing and return false, unlike async_schedule_dev()
 * that will run the function synchronously then.
 */
bool async_schedule_dev_nocall(async_func_t func, struct device *dev)
{ … }

/**
 * async_synchronize_full - synchronize all asynchronous function calls
 *
 * This function waits until all asynchronous function calls have been done.
 */
void async_synchronize_full(void)
{ … }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(…);

/**
 * async_synchronize_full_domain - synchronize all asynchronous function within a certain domain
 * @domain: the domain to synchronize
 *
 * This function waits until all asynchronous function calls for the
 * synchronization domain specified by @domain have been done.
 */
void async_synchronize_full_domain(struct async_domain *domain)
{ … }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(…);

/**
 * async_synchronize_cookie_domain - synchronize asynchronous function calls within a certain domain with cookie checkpointing
 * @cookie: async_cookie_t to use as checkpoint
 * @domain: the domain to synchronize (%NULL for all registered domains)
 *
 * This function waits until all asynchronous function calls for the
 * synchronization domain specified by @domain submitted prior to @cookie
 * have been done.
 */
void async_synchronize_cookie_domain(async_cookie_t cookie, struct async_domain *domain)
{ … }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(…);

/**
 * async_synchronize_cookie - synchronize asynchronous function calls with cookie checkpointing
 * @cookie: async_cookie_t to use as checkpoint
 *
 * This function waits until all asynchronous function calls prior to @cookie
 * have been done.
 */
void async_synchronize_cookie(async_cookie_t cookie)
{ … }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(…);

/**
 * current_is_async - is %current an async worker task?
 *
 * Returns %true if %current is an async worker task.
 */
bool current_is_async(void)
{ … }
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(…);

void __init async_init(void)
{ … }