[PATCH 7/9] s390: Convert from tasklet to BH workqueue

Harald Freudenberger freude at linux.ibm.com
Mon Apr 8 20:03:10 AEST 2024


On 2024-03-27 17:03, Allen Pais wrote:
> The only generic interface to execute asynchronously in the BH context 
> is
> tasklet; however, it's marked deprecated and has some design flaws. To
> replace tasklets, BH workqueue support was recently added. A BH 
> workqueue
> behaves similarly to regular workqueues except that the queued work 
> items
> are executed in the BH context.
> 
> This patch converts drivers/infiniband/* from tasklet to BH workqueue.
> 
> Based on the work done by Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> Branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git 
> for-6.10
> 
> Note: Not tested. Please test/review.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml at gmail.com>
> ---
> ...
>  drivers/s390/crypto/ap_bus.c           | 24 +++++++-------
>  drivers/s390/crypto/ap_bus.h           |  2 +-
>  drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_msgtype50.c |  2 +-
>  drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_msgtype6.c  |  4 +--
> ...

Applied and tested the s390 AP bus and zcrypt part of the patch.
Works fine, a sniff test did not show any problems.
Thanks for your work.

Reviewed-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude at linux.ibm.com>


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