This patch adds utilities for managing and using named threads, as well as
several locking and synchronization utilities. These utilities help dm-vdo
minimize thread transitions and manage interactions between threads.
Co-developed-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net>
Signed-off-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net>
Co-developed-by: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev>
Co-developed-by: Thomas Jaskiewicz <tom@jaskiewicz.us>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Jaskiewicz <tom@jaskiewicz.us>
Co-developed-by: Bruce Johnston <bjohnsto@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Johnston <bjohnsto@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>