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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2018-03-05 07:39:06 -0500
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2018-03-05 07:39:06 -0500
commit76bf7087fb2118aee16370821975f8a58febf68a (patch)
treec1a110c82b60b400dd5ac94c73317b284f0a19dc /kernel/workqueue.c
parentmedia: rc: fix race condition in ir_raw_event_store_edge() handling (diff)
parentLinux 4.16-rc4 (diff)
Merge commit 'v4.16-rc4~0' into patchwork
* commit 'v4.16-rc4~0': (900 commits) Linux 4.16-rc4 memremap: fix softlockup reports at teardown libnvdimm: re-enable deep flush for pmem devices via fsync() MAINTAINERS: take over Kconfig maintainership vfio: disable filesystem-dax page pinning kconfig: fix line number in recursive inclusion error message Coccinelle: memdup: Fix typo in warning messages i2c: octeon: Prevent error message on bus error parisc: Reduce irq overhead when run in qemu parisc: Use cr16 interval timers unconditionally on qemu parisc: Check if secondary CPUs want own PDC calls parisc: Hide virtual kernel memory layout parisc: Fix ordering of cache and TLB flushes kconfig: Update ncurses package names for menuconfig kbuild/kallsyms: trivial typo fix kbuild: test --build-id linker flag by ld-option instead of cc-ldoption kbuild: drop superfluous GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS assignment kconfig: Don't leak choice names during parsing sh: fix build error for empty CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB_SOURCE kconfig: set SYMBOL_AUTO to the symbol marked with defconfig_list ...
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diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 017044c26233..bb9a519cbf50 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4180,6 +4180,22 @@ void workqueue_set_max_active(struct workqueue_struct *wq, int max_active)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(workqueue_set_max_active);
/**
+ * current_work - retrieve %current task's work struct
+ *
+ * Determine if %current task is a workqueue worker and what it's working on.
+ * Useful to find out the context that the %current task is running in.
+ *
+ * Return: work struct if %current task is a workqueue worker, %NULL otherwise.
+ */
+struct work_struct *current_work(void)
+{
+ struct worker *worker = current_wq_worker();
+
+ return worker ? worker->current_work : NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(current_work);
+
+/**
* current_is_workqueue_rescuer - is %current workqueue rescuer?
*
* Determine whether %current is a workqueue rescuer. Can be used from