ipmi: Convert from tasklet to BH workqueue
authorAllen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:03:11 +0000 (16:03 +0000)
committerCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:54:45 +0000 (14:54 -0500)
commita9b5bb5c2222b90f30c37c6036664b96404ab369
treef840380bc553b3558b285cf51d985ffb9f7f10bf
parent8d025e2092e29bfd13e56c78e22af25fac83c8ec
ipmi: Convert from tasklet to BH workqueue

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/char/ipmi/* from tasklet to BH workqueue.

Based on the work done by Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-6.10

Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <allen.lkml@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20240327160314.9982-7-apais@linux.microsoft.com>
[Removed a duplicate include of workqueue.h]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c