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async: Add some documentation.

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Add some kerneldoc to the async interface.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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Cornelia Huck 2009-01-19 13:45:33 +01:00 committed by Arjan van de Ven
parent 86532d8b16
commit f30d5b307c
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@ -209,18 +209,43 @@ static async_cookie_t __async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data, struct l
return newcookie;
}
/**
* async_schedule - schedule a function for asynchronous execution
* @ptr: function to execute asynchronously
* @data: data pointer to pass to the function
*
* Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
* Note: This function may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
*/
async_cookie_t async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data)
{
return __async_schedule(ptr, data, &async_running);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_schedule);
/**
* async_schedule_special - schedule a function for asynchronous execution with a special running queue
* @ptr: function to execute asynchronously
* @data: data pointer to pass to the function
* @running: list head to add to while running
*
* Returns an async_cookie_t that may be used for checkpointing later.
* @running may be used in the async_synchronize_*_special() functions
* to wait on a special running queue rather than on the global running
* queue.
* Note: This function may be called from atomic or non-atomic contexts.
*/
async_cookie_t async_schedule_special(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data, struct list_head *running)
{
return __async_schedule(ptr, data, running);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_schedule_special);
/**
* async_synchronize_full - synchronize all asynchronous function calls
*
* This function waits until all asynchronous function calls have been done.
*/
void async_synchronize_full(void)
{
do {
@ -229,12 +254,27 @@ void async_synchronize_full(void)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_full);
/**
* async_synchronize_full_special - synchronize all asynchronous function calls for a running list
* @list: running list to synchronize on
*
* This function waits until all asynchronous function calls for the running
* list @list have been done.
*/
void async_synchronize_full_special(struct list_head *list)
{
async_synchronize_cookie_special(next_cookie, list);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_full_special);
/**
* async_synchronize_cookie_special - synchronize asynchronous function calls on a running list with cookie checkpointing
* @cookie: async_cookie_t to use as checkpoint
* @running: running list to synchronize on
*
* This function waits until all asynchronous function calls for the running
* list @list submitted prior to @cookie have been done.
*/
void async_synchronize_cookie_special(async_cookie_t cookie, struct list_head *running)
{
ktime_t starttime, delta, endtime;
@ -257,6 +297,13 @@ void async_synchronize_cookie_special(async_cookie_t cookie, struct list_head *r
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(async_synchronize_cookie_special);
/**
* 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)
{
async_synchronize_cookie_special(cookie, &async_running);