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    USB: appledisplay: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue · 6a0bb434
    Bhaktipriya Shridhar authored
    The workqueue "wq" is involved in controlling the brightness of an
    Apple Cinema Display over USB.
    
    It has a single work item(&pdata->work) per appledisplay and hence
    doesn't require ordering. Also, it is not being used on a memory
    reclaim path.
    
    Hence, the singlethreaded workqueue has been replaced with the use of
    system_wq.
    
    System workqueues have been able to handle high level of concurrency
    for a long time now and hence it's not required to have a singlethreaded
    workqueue just to gain concurrency. Unlike a dedicated per-cpu workqueue
    created with create_singlethread_workqueue(), system_wq allows multiple
    work items to overlap executions even on the same CPU; however, a
    per-cpu workqueue doesn't have any CPU locality or global ordering
    guarantee unless the target CPU is explicitly specified and thus the
    increase of local concurrency shouldn't make any difference.
    
    The work item is self-requeueing and needs to wait for the in-flight
    work item to finish before proceeding with destruction.
    Hence, it has been sync cancelled in appledisplay_disconnect().
    This also ensures that there are no pending tasks while disconnecting
    the driver.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBhaktipriya Shridhar <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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