Add library functions to reliably kill off a delayed work whose handler
re-adds the delayed work.  One for keventd, one for caller-owned workqueues.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 25-akpm/include/linux/workqueue.h |    3 +++
 25-akpm/kernel/workqueue.c        |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff -puN kernel/workqueue.c~cancel_rearming_delayed_work kernel/workqueue.c
--- 25/kernel/workqueue.c~cancel_rearming_delayed_work	2005-01-30 22:38:46.846258024 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/kernel/workqueue.c	2005-01-30 22:41:13.235003552 -0800
@@ -423,6 +423,30 @@ void flush_scheduled_work(void)
 	flush_workqueue(keventd_wq);
 }
 
+/**
+ * cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue - reliably kill off a delayed
+ *			work whose handler rearms the delayed work.
+ * @wq:   the controlling workqueue structure
+ * @work: the delayed work struct
+ */
+void cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
+					struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	while (!cancel_delayed_work(work))
+		flush_workqueue(wq);
+}
+
+/**
+ * cancel_rearming_delayed_work - reliably kill off a delayed keventd
+ *			work whose handler rearms the delayed work.
+ * @work: the delayed work struct
+ */
+void cancel_rearming_delayed_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(keventd_wq, work);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_rearming_delayed_work);
+
 int keventd_up(void)
 {
 	return keventd_wq != NULL;
diff -puN include/linux/workqueue.h~cancel_rearming_delayed_work include/linux/workqueue.h
--- 25/include/linux/workqueue.h~cancel_rearming_delayed_work	2005-01-30 22:38:46.848257720 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/include/linux/workqueue.h	2005-01-30 22:41:22.899534320 -0800
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ extern int current_is_keventd(void);
 extern int keventd_up(void);
 
 extern void init_workqueues(void);
+void cancel_rearming_delayed_work(struct work_struct *work);
+void cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
+					struct work_struct *work);
 
 /*
  * Kill off a pending schedule_delayed_work().  Note that the work callback
_