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- 18 Jan, 2013 3 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
This will be used to implement an inline function to query whether %current is a workqueue worker and, if so, allow determining which work item it's executing. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
Workqueue wants to expose more interface internal to kernel/. Instead of adding a new header file, repurpose kernel/workqueue_sched.h. Rename it to workqueue_internal.h and add include protector. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
PF_WQ_WORKER is used to tell scheduler that the task is a workqueue worker and needs wq_worker_sleeping/waking_up() invoked on it for concurrency management. As rescuers never participate in concurrency management, PF_WQ_WORKER wasn't set on them. There's a need for an interface which can query whether %current is executing a work item and if so which. Such interface requires a way to identify all tasks which may execute work items and PF_WQ_WORKER will be used for that. As all normal workers always have PF_WQ_WORKER set, we only need to add it to rescuers. As rescuers start with WORKER_PREP but never clear it, it's always NOT_RUNNING and there's no need to worry about it interfering with concurrency management even if PF_WQ_WORKER is set; however, unlike normal workers, rescuers currently don't have its worker struct as kthread_data(). It uses the associated workqueue_struct instead. This is problematic as wq_worker_sleeping/waking_up() expect struct worker at kthread_data(). This patch adds worker->rescue_wq and start rescuer kthreads with worker struct as kthread_data and sets PF_WQ_WORKER on rescuers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 19 Dec, 2012 1 commit
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Tejun Heo authored
42f8570f ("workqueue: use new hashtable implementation") incorrectly made busy workers hashed by the pointer value of worker instead of work. This broke find_worker_executing_work() which in turn broke a lot of fundamental operations of workqueue - non-reentrancy and flushing among others. The flush malfunction triggered warning in disk event code in Fengguang's automated test. write_dev_root_ (3265) used greatest stack depth: 2704 bytes left ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/block/genhd.c:1574 disk_clear_events+0x\ cf/0x108() Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: Pid: 3328, comm: ata_id Not tainted 3.7.0-01930-gbff6343 #1167 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810997c4>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9c [<ffffffff810997f7>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c [<ffffffff816aea77>] disk_clear_events+0xcf/0x108 [<ffffffff811bd8be>] check_disk_change+0x27/0x59 [<ffffffff822e48e2>] cdrom_open+0x49/0x68b [<ffffffff81ab0291>] idecd_open+0x88/0xb7 [<ffffffff811be58f>] __blkdev_get+0x102/0x3ec [<ffffffff811bea08>] blkdev_get+0x18f/0x30f [<ffffffff811bebfd>] blkdev_open+0x75/0x80 [<ffffffff8118f510>] do_dentry_open+0x1ea/0x295 [<ffffffff8118f5f0>] finish_open+0x35/0x41 [<ffffffff8119c720>] do_last+0x878/0xa25 [<ffffffff8119c993>] path_openat+0xc6/0x333 [<ffffffff8119cf37>] do_filp_open+0x38/0x86 [<ffffffff81190170>] do_sys_open+0x6c/0xf9 [<ffffffff8119021e>] sys_open+0x21/0x23 [<ffffffff82c1c3d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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- 18 Dec, 2012 2 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
To avoid executing the same work item concurrenlty, workqueue hashes currently busy workers according to their current work items and looks up the the table when it wants to execute a new work item. If there already is a worker which is executing the new work item, the new item is queued to the found worker so that it gets executed only after the current execution finishes. Unfortunately, a work item may be freed while being executed and thus recycled for different purposes. If it gets recycled for a different work item and queued while the previous execution is still in progress, workqueue may make the new work item wait for the old one although the two aren't really related in any way. In extreme cases, this false dependency may lead to deadlock although it's extremely unlikely given that there aren't too many self-freeing work item users and they usually don't wait for other work items. To alleviate the problem, record the current work function in each busy worker and match it together with the work item address in find_worker_executing_work(). While this isn't complete, it ensures that unrelated work items don't interact with each other and in the very unlikely case where a twisted wq user triggers it, it's always onto itself making the culprit easy to spot. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Andrey Isakov <andy51@gmx.ru> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51701 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Sasha Levin authored
Switch workqueues to use the new hashtable implementation. This reduces the amount of generic unrelated code in the workqueues. This patch depends on d9b482c8 ("hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable") which was merged in v3.6. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 04 Dec, 2012 1 commit
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Tejun Heo authored
8852aac2 ("workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on 0 delay") unexpectedly uncovered a very nasty abuse of delayed_work in megaraid - it allocated work_struct, casted it to delayed_work and then pass that into queue_delayed_work(). Previously, this was okay because 0 @delay short-circuited to queue_work() before doing anything with delayed_work. 8852aac2 moved 0 @delay test into __queue_delayed_work() after sanity check on delayed_work making megaraid trigger BUG_ON(). Although megaraid is already fixed by c1d390d8 ("megaraid: fix BUG_ON() from incorrect use of delayed work"), this patch converts BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s so that such abusers, if there are more, trigger warning but don't crash the machine. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
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- 02 Dec, 2012 3 commits
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Recently, workqueue code has gone through some changes and we found some bugs related to concurrency management operations happening on the wrong CPU. When a worker is concurrency managed (!WORKER_NOT_RUNNIG), it should be bound to its associated cpu and woken up to that cpu. Add WARN_ON_ONCE() to verify this. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Return type of work_busy() is unsigned int. There is return statement returning boolean value, 'false' in work_busy(). It is not problem, because 'false' may be treated '0'. However, fixing it would make code robust. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
8376fe22 ("workqueue: implement mod_delayed_work[_on]()") implemented mod_delayed_work[_on]() using the improved try_to_grab_pending(). The function is later used, among others, to replace [__]candel_delayed_work() + queue_delayed_work() combinations. Unfortunately, a delayed_work item w/ zero @delay is handled slightly differently by mod_delayed_work_on() compared to queue_delayed_work_on(). The latter skips timer altogether and directly queues it using queue_work_on() while the former schedules timer which will expire on the closest tick. This means, when @delay is zero, that [__]cancel_delayed_work() + queue_delayed_work_on() makes the target item immediately executable while mod_delayed_work_on() may induce delay of upto a full tick. This somewhat subtle difference breaks some of the converted users. e.g. block queue plugging uses delayed_work for deferred processing and uses mod_delayed_work_on() when the queue needs to be immediately unplugged. The above problem manifested as noticeably higher number of context switches under certain circumstances. The difference in behavior was caused by missing special case handling for 0 delay in mod_delayed_work_on() compared to queue_delayed_work_on(). Joonsoo Kim posted a patch to add it - ("workqueue: optimize mod_delayed_work_on() when @delay == 0")[1]. The patch was queued for 3.8 but it was described as optimization and I missed that it was a correctness issue. As both queue_delayed_work_on() and mod_delayed_work_on() use __queue_delayed_work() for queueing, it seems that the better approach is to move the 0 delay special handling to the function instead of duplicating it in mod_delayed_work_on(). Fix the problem by moving 0 delay special case handling from queue_delayed_work_on() to __queue_delayed_work(). This replaces Joonsoo's patch. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1379011/focus=1379012Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU> Reported-and-tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211280953350.26602@dr-wily.mit.edu> LKML-Reference: <50A78AA9.5040904@iskon.hr> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
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- 01 Dec, 2012 1 commit
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Mike Galbraith authored
A rescue thread exiting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE can lead to a task scheduling off, never to be seen again. In the case where this occurred, an exiting thread hit reiserfs homebrew conditional resched while holding a mutex, bringing the box to its knees. PID: 18105 TASK: ffff8807fd412180 CPU: 5 COMMAND: "kdmflush" #0 [ffff8808157e7670] schedule at ffffffff8143f489 #1 [ffff8808157e77b8] reiserfs_get_block at ffffffffa038ab2d [reiserfs] #2 [ffff8808157e79a8] __block_write_begin at ffffffff8117fb14 #3 [ffff8808157e7a98] reiserfs_write_begin at ffffffffa0388695 [reiserfs] #4 [ffff8808157e7ad8] generic_perform_write at ffffffff810ee9e2 #5 [ffff8808157e7b58] generic_file_buffered_write at ffffffff810eeb41 #6 [ffff8808157e7ba8] __generic_file_aio_write at ffffffff810f1a3a #7 [ffff8808157e7c58] generic_file_aio_write at ffffffff810f1c88 #8 [ffff8808157e7cc8] do_sync_write at ffffffff8114f850 #9 [ffff8808157e7dd8] do_acct_process at ffffffff810a268f [exception RIP: kernel_thread_helper] RIP: ffffffff8144a5c0 RSP: ffff8808157e7f58 RFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8107af60 RDI: ffff8803ee491d18 RBP: 0000000000000000 R8: 0000000000000000 R9: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 24 Oct, 2012 1 commit
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Dan Magenheimer authored
57b30ae7 ("workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()") made cancel_delayed_work() always return %true unless someone else is also trying to cancel the work item, which is broken - if the target work item is idle, the return value should be %false. try_to_grab_pending() indicates that the target work item was idle by zero return value. Use it for return. Note that this brings cancel_delayed_work() in line with __cancel_work_timer() in return value handling. Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <444a6439-b1a4-4740-9e7e-bc37267cfe73@default>
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- 20 Sep, 2012 1 commit
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Tejun Heo authored
e0aecdd8 ("workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work") made try_to_grab_pending() safe to use from irq context but forgot to remove WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()). Remove it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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- 19 Sep, 2012 3 commits
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Lai Jiangshan authored
workqueue_set_max_active() may increase ->max_active without activating delayed works and may make the activation order differ from the queueing order. Both aren't strictly bugs but the resulting behavior could be a bit odd. To make things more consistent, use cwq_set_max_active() helper which immediately makes use of the newly increased max_mactive if there are delayed work items and also keeps the activation order. tj: Slight update to description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Using a helper instead of open code makes thaw_workqueues() clearer. The helper will also be used by the next patch. tj: Slight update to comment and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
The existing work_on_cpu() implementation is hugely inefficient. It creates a new kthread, execute that single function and then let the kthread die on each invocation. Now that system_wq can handle concurrent executions, there's no advantage of doing this. Reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq which makes it simpler and way more efficient. stable: While this isn't a fix in itself, it's needed to fix a workqueue related bug in cpufreq/powernow-k8. AFAICS, this shouldn't break other existing users. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 18 Sep, 2012 8 commits
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Lai Jiangshan authored
@delayed is now always false for all callers, remove it. tj: Updated description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Currently, when try_to_grab_pending() grabs a delayed work item, it leaves its linked work items alone on the delayed_works. The linked work items are always NO_COLOR and will cause future cwq_activate_first_delayed() increase cwq->nr_active incorrectly, and may cause the whole cwq to stall. For example, state: cwq->max_active = 1, cwq->nr_active = 1 one work in cwq->pool, many in cwq->delayed_works. step1: try_to_grab_pending() removes a work item from delayed_works but leaves its NO_COLOR linked work items on it. step2: Later on, cwq_activate_first_delayed() activates the linked work item increasing ->nr_active. step3: cwq->nr_active = 1, but all activated work items of the cwq are NO_COLOR. When they finish, cwq->nr_active will not be decreased due to NO_COLOR, and no further work items will be activated from cwq->delayed_works. the cwq stalls. Fix it by ensuring the target work item is activated before stealing PENDING in try_to_grab_pending(). This ensures that all the linked work items are activated without incorrectly bumping cwq->nr_active. tj: Updated comment and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Lai Jiangshan authored
workqueue_cpu_down_callback() is used only if HOTPLUG_CPU=y, so hotcpu_notifier() fits better than cpu_notifier(). When HOTPLUG_CPU=y, hotcpu_notifier() and cpu_notifier() are the same. When HOTPLUG_CPU=n, if we use cpu_notifier(), workqueue_cpu_down_callback() will be called during boot to do nothing, and the memory of workqueue_cpu_down_callback() and gcwq_unbind_fn() will be discarded after boot. If we use hotcpu_notifier(), we can avoid the no-op call of workqueue_cpu_down_callback() and the memory of workqueue_cpu_down_callback() and gcwq_unbind_fn() will be discard at build time: $ ls -l kernel/workqueue.o.cpu_notifier kernel/workqueue.o.hotcpu_notifier -rw-rw-r-- 1 laijs laijs 484080 Sep 15 11:31 kernel/workqueue.o.cpu_notifier -rw-rw-r-- 1 laijs laijs 478240 Sep 15 11:31 kernel/workqueue.o.hotcpu_notifier $ size kernel/workqueue.o.cpu_notifier kernel/workqueue.o.hotcpu_notifier text data bss dec hex filename 18513 2387 1221 22121 5669 kernel/workqueue.o.cpu_notifier 18082 2355 1221 21658 549a kernel/workqueue.o.hotcpu_notifier tj: Updated description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
For workqueue hotplug callbacks, it makes less sense to use __devinit which discards the memory after boot if !HOTPLUG. __cpuinit, which discards the memory after boot if !HOTPLUG_CPU fits better. tj: Updated description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Now that manager_mutex's role has changed from synchronizing manager role to excluding hotplug against manager, the name is misleading. As it is protecting the CPU-association of the gcwq now, rename it to assoc_mutex. This patch is pure rename and doesn't introduce any functional change. tj: Updated comments and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Now both worker destruction and idle rebinding remove the worker from idle list while it's still idle, so list_empty(&worker->entry) can be used to test whether either is pending and WORKER_DIE to distinguish between the two instead making WORKER_REBIND unnecessary. Use list_empty(&worker->entry) to determine whether destruction or rebinding is pending. This simplifies worker state transitions. WORKER_REBIND is not needed anymore. Remove it. tj: Updated comments and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Because the old unbind/rebinding implementation wasn't atomic w.r.t. GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED manipulation which is protected by global_cwq->lock, we had to use two flags, WORKER_UNBOUND and WORKER_REBIND, to avoid incorrectly losing all NOT_RUNNING bits with back-to-back CPU hotplug operations; otherwise, completion of rebinding while another unbinding is in progress could clear UNBIND prematurely. Now that both unbind/rebinding are atomic w.r.t. GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED, there's no need to use two flags. Just one is enough. Don't use WORKER_REBIND for busy rebinding. tj: Updated description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Currently rebind_workers() uses rebinds idle workers synchronously before proceeding to requesting busy workers to rebind. This is necessary because all workers on @worker_pool->idle_list must be bound before concurrency management local wake-ups from the busy workers take place. Unfortunately, the synchronous idle rebinding is quite complicated. This patch reimplements idle rebinding to simplify the code path. Rather than trying to make all idle workers bound before rebinding busy workers, we simply remove all to-be-bound idle workers from the idle list and let them add themselves back after completing rebinding (successful or not). As only workers which finished rebinding can on on the idle worker list, the idle worker list is guaranteed to have only bound workers unless CPU went down again and local wake-ups are safe. After the change, @worker_pool->nr_idle may deviate than the actual number of idle workers on @worker_pool->idle_list. More specifically, nr_idle may be non-zero while ->idle_list is empty. All users of ->nr_idle and ->idle_list are audited. The only affected one is too_many_workers() which is updated to check %false if ->idle_list is empty regardless of ->nr_idle. After this patch, rebind_workers() no longer performs the nasty idle-rebind retries which require temporary release of gcwq->lock, and both unbinding and rebinding are atomic w.r.t. global_cwq->lock. worker->idle_rebind and global_cwq->rebind_hold are now unnecessary and removed along with the definition of struct idle_rebind. Changed from V1: 1) remove unlikely from too_many_workers(), ->idle_list can be empty anytime, even before this patch, no reason to use unlikely. 2) fix a small rebasing mistake. (which is from rebasing the orignal fixing patch to for-next) 3) add a lot of comments. 4) clear WORKER_REBIND unconditionaly in idle_worker_rebind() tj: Updated comments and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 17 Sep, 2012 1 commit
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Lai Jiangshan authored
busy_worker_rebind_fn() didn't clear WORKER_REBIND if rebinding failed (CPU is down again). This used to be okay because the flag wasn't used for anything else. However, after 25511a47 "workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle idle workers", WORKER_REBIND is also used to command idle workers to rebind. If not cleared, the worker may confuse the next CPU_UP cycle by having REBIND spuriously set or oops / get stuck by prematurely calling idle_worker_rebind(). WARNING: at /work/os/wq/kernel/workqueue.c:1323 worker_thread+0x4cd/0x5 00() Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: test_wq(O-) Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8109039f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff810903fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff810b3f1d>] worker_thread+0x4cd/0x500 [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 ---[ end trace e977cf20f4661968 ]--- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: test_wq(O-) CPU 0 Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G W O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b3db0>] [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 RSP: 0018:ffff88001e1c9de0 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001e633e00 RCX: 0000000000004140 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000009 RBP: ffff88001e1c9ea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88001fc8d580 R13: ffff88001fc8d590 R14: ffff88001e633e20 R15: ffff88001e1c6900 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000130e8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process kworker/1:1 (pid: 33, threadinfo ffff88001e1c8000, task ffff88001e1c6900) Stack: ffff880000000000 ffff88001e1c9e40 0000000000000001 ffff88001e1c8010 ffff88001e519c78 ffff88001e1c9e58 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001fc8d340 ffff88001fc8d340 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 Code: b1 00 f6 43 48 02 0f 85 91 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 89 df 48 8b 00 48 89 45 90 e8 ac f0 ff ff 3c 01 0f 85 60 01 00 00 48 8b 53 50 <8b> 02 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 02 0f 84 3b 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 8b RIP [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 RSP <ffff88001e1c9de0> CR2: 0000000000000000 There was no reason to keep WORKER_REBIND on failure in the first place - WORKER_UNBOUND is guaranteed to be set in such cases preventing incorrectly activating concurrency management. Always clear WORKER_REBIND. tj: Updated comment and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 10 Sep, 2012 2 commits
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Lai Jiangshan authored
To simplify both normal and CPU hotplug paths, worker management is prevented while CPU hoplug is in progress. This is achieved by CPU hotplug holding the same exclusion mechanism used by workers to ensure there's only one manager per pool. If someone else seems to be performing the manager role, workers proceed to execute work items. CPU hotplug using the same mechanism can lead to idle worker depletion because all workers could proceed to execute work items while CPU hotplug is in progress and CPU hotplug itself wouldn't actually perform the worker management duty - it doesn't guarantee that there's an idle worker left when it releases management. This idle worker depletion, under extreme circumstances, can break forward-progress guarantee and thus lead to deadlock. This patch fixes the bug by using separate mechanisms for manager exclusion among workers and hotplug exclusion. For manager exclusion, POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS which was restored by the previous patch is used. pool->manager_mutex is now only used for exclusion between the elected manager and CPU hotplug. The elected manager won't proceed without holding pool->manager_mutex. This ensures that the worker which won the manager position can't skip managing while CPU hotplug is in progress. It will block on manager_mutex and perform management after CPU hotplug is complete. Note that hotplug may happen while waiting for manager_mutex. A manager isn't either on idle or busy list and thus the hoplug code can't unbind/rebind it. Make the manager handle its own un/rebinding. tj: Updated comment and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
This patch restores POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS which was replaced by pool->manager_mutex by 60373152 "workqueue: use mutex for global_cwq manager exclusion". There's a subtle idle worker depletion bug across CPU hotplug events and we need to distinguish an actual manager and CPU hotplug preventing management. POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS will be used for the former and manager_mutex the later. This patch just lays POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS on top of the existing manager_mutex and doesn't introduce any synchronization changes. The next patch will update it. Note that this patch fixes a non-critical anomaly where too_many_workers() may return %true spuriously while CPU hotplug is in progress. While the issue could schedule idle timer spuriously, it didn't trigger any actual misbehavior. tj: Rewrote patch description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 05 Sep, 2012 3 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
Currently, rebind_workers() and idle_worker_rebind() are two-way interlocked. rebind_workers() waits for idle workers to finish rebinding and rebound idle workers wait for rebind_workers() to finish rebinding busy workers before proceeding. Unfortunately, this isn't enough. The second wait from idle workers is implemented as follows. wait_event(gcwq->rebind_hold, !(worker->flags & WORKER_REBIND)); rebind_workers() clears WORKER_REBIND, wakes up the idle workers and then returns. If CPU hotplug cycle happens again before one of the idle workers finishes the above wait_event(), rebind_workers() will repeat the first part of the handshake - set WORKER_REBIND again and wait for the idle worker to finish rebinding - and this leads to deadlock because the idle worker would be waiting for WORKER_REBIND to clear. This is fixed by adding another interlocking step at the end - rebind_workers() now waits for all the idle workers to finish the above WORKER_REBIND wait before returning. This ensures that all rebinding steps are complete on all idle workers before the next hotplug cycle can happen. This problem was diagnosed by Lai Jiangshan who also posted a patch to fix the issue, upon which this patch is based. This is the minimal fix and further patches are scheduled for the next merge window to simplify the CPU hotplug path. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Original-patch-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1346516916-1991-3-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
This doesn't make any functional difference and is purely to help the next patch to be simpler. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
The compiler may compile the following code into TWO write/modify instructions. worker->flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND; worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND; so the other CPU may temporarily see worker->flags which doesn't have either WORKER_UNBOUND or WORKER_REBIND set and perform local wakeup prematurely. Fix it by using single explicit assignment via ACCESS_ONCE(). Because idle workers have another WORKER_NOT_RUNNING flag, this bug doesn't exist for them; however, update it to use the same pattern for consistency. tj: Applied the change to idle workers too and updated comments and patch description a bit. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 21 Aug, 2012 2 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
cancel_delayed_work() can't be called from IRQ handlers due to its use of del_timer_sync() and can't cancel work items which are already transferred from timer to worklist. Also, unlike other flush and cancel functions, a canceled delayed_work would still point to the last associated cpu_workqueue. If the workqueue is destroyed afterwards and the work item is re-used on a different workqueue, the queueing code can oops trying to dereference already freed cpu_workqueue. This patch reimplements cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending() and set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending(). This allows the function to be called from IRQ handlers and makes its behavior consistent with other flush / cancel functions. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
Up to now, for delayed_works, try_to_grab_pending() couldn't be used from IRQ handlers because IRQs may happen while delayed_work_timer_fn() is in progress leading to indefinite -EAGAIN. This patch makes delayed_work use the new TIMER_IRQSAFE flag for delayed_work->timer. This makes try_to_grab_pending() and thus mod_delayed_work_on() safe to call from IRQ handlers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 20 Aug, 2012 4 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
Now that all workqueues are non-reentrant, system[_freezable]_wq() are equivalent to system_nrt[_freezable]_wq(). Replace the latter with wrappers around system[_freezable]_wq(). The wrapping goes through inline functions so that __deprecated can be added easily. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
Now that all workqueues are non-reentrant, flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are equivalent to flush[_delayed]_work(). Drop the separate implementation and make them thin wrappers around flush[_delayed]_work(). * start_flush_work() no longer takes @wait_executing as the only left user - flush_work() - always sets it to %true. * __cancel_work_timer() uses flush_work() instead of wait_on_work(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
By default, each per-cpu part of a bound workqueue operates separately and a work item may be executing concurrently on different CPUs. The behavior avoids some cross-cpu traffic but leads to subtle weirdities and not-so-subtle contortions in the API. * There's no sane usefulness in allowing a single work item to be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs. People just get the behavior unintentionally and get surprised after learning about it. Most either explicitly synchronize or use non-reentrant/ordered workqueue but this is error-prone. * flush_work() can't wait for multiple instances of the same work item on different CPUs. If a work item is executing on cpu0 and then queued on cpu1, flush_work() can only wait for the one on cpu1. Unfortunately, work items can easily cross CPU boundaries unintentionally when the queueing thread gets migrated. This means that if multiple queuers compete, flush_work() can't even guarantee that the instance queued right before it is finished before returning. * flush_work_sync() was added to work around some of the deficiencies of flush_work(). In addition to the usual flushing, it ensures that all currently executing instances are finished before returning. This operation is expensive as it has to walk all CPUs and at the same time fails to address competing queuer case. Incorrectly using flush_work() when flush_work_sync() is necessary is an easy error to make and can lead to bugs which are difficult to reproduce. * Similar problems exist for flush_delayed_work[_sync](). Other than the cross-cpu access concern, there's no benefit in allowing parallel execution and it's plain silly to have this level of contortion for workqueue which is widely used from core code to extremely obscure drivers. This patch makes all workqueues non-reentrant. If a work item is executing on a different CPU when queueing is requested, it is always queued to that CPU. This guarantees that any given work item can be executing on one CPU at maximum and if a work item is queued and executing, both are on the same CPU. The only behavior change which may affect workqueue users negatively is that non-reentrancy overrides the affinity specified by queue_work_on(). On a reentrant workqueue, the affinity specified by queue_work_on() is always followed. Now, if the work item is executing on one of the CPUs, the work item will be queued there regardless of the requested affinity. I've reviewed all workqueue users which request explicit affinity, and, fortunately, none seems to be crazy enough to exploit parallel execution of the same work item. This adds an additional busy_hash lookup if the work item was previously queued on a different CPU. This shouldn't be noticeable under any sane workload. Work item queueing isn't a very high-frequency operation and they don't jump across CPUs all the time. In a micro benchmark to exaggerate this difference - measuring the time it takes for two work items to repeatedly jump between two CPUs a number (10M) of times with busy_hash table densely populated, the difference was around 3%. While the overhead is measureable, it is only visible in pathological cases and the difference isn't huge. This change brings much needed sanity to workqueue and makes its behavior consistent with timer. I think this is the right tradeoff to make. This enables significant simplification of workqueue API. Simplification patches will follow. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Valentin Ilie authored
Fixed some checkpatch warnings. tj: adapted to wq/for-3.7 and massaged pr_xxx() format strings a bit. Signed-off-by: Valentin Ilie <valentin.ilie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1345326762-21747-1-git-send-email-valentin.ilie@gmail.com>
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- 16 Aug, 2012 4 commits
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Joonsoo Kim authored
To speed cpu down processing up, use system_highpri_wq. As scheduling priority of workers on it is higher than system_wq and it is not contended by other normal works on this cpu, work on it is processed faster than system_wq. tj: CPU up/downs care quite a bit about latency these days. This shouldn't hurt anything and makes sense. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Joonsoo Kim authored
In rebind_workers(), we do inserting a work to rebind to cpu for busy workers. Currently, in this case, we use only system_wq. This makes a possible error situation as there is mismatch between cwq->pool and worker->pool. To prevent this, we should use system_highpri_wq for highpri worker to match theses. This implements it. tj: Rephrased comment a bit. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Commit 3270476a ('workqueue: reimplement WQ_HIGHPRI using a separate worker_pool') introduce separate worker pool for HIGHPRI. When we handle busyworkers for gcwq, it can be normal worker or highpri worker. But, we don't consider this difference in rebind_workers(), we use just system_wq for highpri worker. It makes mismatch between cwq->pool and worker->pool. It doesn't make error in current implementation, but possible in the future. Now, we introduce system_highpri_wq to use proper cwq for highpri workers in rebind_workers(). Following patch fix this issue properly. tj: Even apart from rebinding, having system_highpri_wq generally makes sense. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Joonsoo Kim authored
We assign cpu id into work struct's data field in __queue_delayed_work_on(). In current implementation, when work is come in first time, current running cpu id is assigned. If we do __queue_delayed_work_on() with CPU A on CPU B, __queue_work() invoked in delayed_work_timer_fn() go into the following sub-optimal path in case of WQ_NON_REENTRANT. gcwq = get_gcwq(cpu); if (wq->flags & WQ_NON_REENTRANT && (last_gcwq = get_work_gcwq(work)) && last_gcwq != gcwq) { Change lcpu to @cpu and rechange lcpu to local cpu if lcpu is WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. It is sufficient to prevent to go into sub-optimal path. tj: Slightly rephrased the comment. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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