workqueue: Allow retrieval of current task's work struct

Introduce a helper to retrieve the current task's work struct if it is
a workqueue worker.

This allows us to fix a long-standing deadlock in several DRM drivers
wherein the ->runtime_suspend callback waits for a specific worker to
finish and that worker in turn calls a function which waits for runtime
suspend to finish.  That function is invoked from multiple call sites
and waiting for runtime suspend to finish is the correct thing to do
except if it's executing in the context of the worker.

Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/2d8f603074131eb87e588d2b803a71765bd3a2fd.1518338788.git.lukas@wunner.de

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 43d18cb46308..255c20efdf7b 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4168,6 +4168,22 @@ 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