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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-10-19 11:14:49 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-10-19 11:14:49 +0200
commit31ddd871fc3db73e2024cb3eb3ee5051edf5a80f (patch)
tree3a2d578ec9ebefecca5e4cad196023bbe1a7d0f2 /kernel
parent10ccd84695c2a03075bad2f4fc728575fe9051f8 (diff)
workqueue: Clarify that schedule_on_each_cpu is synchronous
The documentation for schedule_on_each_cpu() states that it calls a function on each online CPU from keventd. This can easily be interpreted as an asyncronous call because the description does not mention that flush_work is called. Clarify that it is synchronous. tj: rephrased a bit Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 2c6871cbcbee..eb5c1972443a 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2676,13 +2676,15 @@ int schedule_delayed_work_on(int cpu,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_delayed_work_on);
/**
- * schedule_on_each_cpu - call a function on each online CPU from keventd
+ * schedule_on_each_cpu - execute a function synchronously on each online CPU
* @func: the function to call
*
- * Returns zero on success.
- * Returns -ve errno on failure.
- *
+ * schedule_on_each_cpu() executes @func on each online CPU using the
+ * system workqueue and blocks until all CPUs have completed.
* schedule_on_each_cpu() is very slow.
+ *
+ * RETURNS:
+ * 0 on success, -errno on failure.
*/
int schedule_on_each_cpu(work_func_t func)
{