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2013-02-06workqueue: make work->data point to pool after try_to_grab_pending()Lai Jiangshan
We plan to use work->data pointing to cwq as the synchronization invariant when determining whether a given work item is on a locked pool or not, which requires work->data pointing to cwq only while the work item is queued on the associated pool. With delayed_work updated not to overload work->data for target workqueue recording, the only case where we still have off-queue work->data pointing to cwq is try_to_grab_pending() which doesn't update work->data after stealing a queued work item. There's no reason for try_to_grab_pending() to not update work->data to point to the pool instead of cwq, like the normal execution does. This patch adds set_work_pool_and_keep_pending() which makes work->data point to pool instead of cwq but keeps the pending bit unlike set_work_pool_and_clear_pending() (surprise!). After this patch, it's guaranteed that only queued work items point to cwqs. This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior change. tj: Renamed the new helper function to match set_work_pool_and_clear_pending() and rewrote the description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-02-06workqueue: add delayed_work->wq to simplify reentrancy handlingLai Jiangshan
To avoid executing the same work item from multiple CPUs concurrently, a work_struct records the last pool it was on in its ->data so that, on the next queueing, the pool can be queried to determine whether the work item is still executing or not. A delayed_work goes through timer before actually being queued on the target workqueue and the timer needs to know the target workqueue and CPU. This is currently achieved by modifying delayed_work->work.data such that it points to the cwq which points to the target workqueue and the last CPU the work item was on. __queue_delayed_work() extracts the last CPU from delayed_work->work.data and then combines it with the target workqueue to create new work.data. The only thing this rather ugly hack achieves is encoding the target workqueue into delayed_work->work.data without using a separate field, which could be a trade off one can make; unfortunately, this entangles work->data management between regular workqueue and delayed_work code by setting cwq pointer before the work item is actually queued and becomes a hindrance for further improvements of work->data handling. This can be easily made sane by adding a target workqueue field to delayed_work. While delayed_work is used widely in the kernel and this does make it a bit larger (<5%), I think this is the right trade-off especially given the prospect of much saner handling of work->data which currently involves quite tricky memory barrier dancing, and don't expect to see any measureable effect. Add delayed_work->wq and drop the delayed_work->work.data overloading. tj: Rewrote the description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-02-06workqueue: make work_busy() test WORK_STRUCT_PENDING firstLai Jiangshan
Currently, work_busy() first tests whether the work has a pool associated with it and if not, considers it idle. This works fine even for delayed_work.work queued on timer, as __queue_delayed_work() sets cwq on delayed_work.work - a queued delayed_work always has its cwq and thus pool associated with it. However, we're about to update delayed_work queueing and this won't hold. Update work_busy() such that it tests WORK_STRUCT_PENDING before the associated pool. This doesn't make any noticeable behavior difference now. With work_pending() test moved, the function read a lot better with "if (!pool)" test flipped to positive. Flip it. While at it, lose the comment about now non-existent reentrant workqueues. tj: Reorganized the function and rewrote the description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-02-06workqueue: replace WORK_CPU_NONE/LAST with WORK_CPU_ENDLai Jiangshan
Now that workqueue has moved away from gcwqs, workqueue no longer has the need to have a CPU identifier indicating "no cpu associated" - we now use WORK_OFFQ_POOL_NONE instead - and most uses of WORK_CPU_NONE are gone. The only left usage is as the end marker for for_each_*wq*() iterators, where the name WORK_CPU_NONE is confusing w/o actual WORK_CPU_NONE usages. Similarly, WORK_CPU_LAST which equals WORK_CPU_NONE no longer makes sense. Replace both WORK_CPU_NONE and LAST with WORK_CPU_END. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. tj: s/WORK_CPU_LAST/WORK_CPU_END/ and rewrote the description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2013-01-24workqueue: post global_cwq removal cleanupsTejun Heo
Remove remaining references to gcwq. * __next_gcwq_cpu() steals __next_wq_cpu() name. The original __next_wq_cpu() became __next_cwq_cpu(). * s/for_each_gcwq_cpu/for_each_wq_cpu/ s/for_each_online_gcwq_cpu/for_each_online_wq_cpu/ * s/gcwq_mayday_timeout/pool_mayday_timeout/ * s/gcwq_unbind_fn/wq_unbind_fn/ * Drop references to gcwq in comments. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: rename nr_running variablesTejun Heo
Rename per-cpu and unbound nr_running variables such that they match the pool variables. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: remove global_cwqTejun Heo
global_cwq is now nothing but a container for per-cpu standard worker_pools. Declare the worker pools directly as cpu/unbound_std_worker_pools[] and remove global_cwq. * ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp moved from global_cwq to worker_pool. This probably would have made sense even before this change as we want each pool to be aligned. * get_gcwq() is replaced with std_worker_pools() which returns the pointer to the standard pool array for a given CPU. * __alloc_workqueue_key() updated to use get_std_worker_pool() instead of open-coding pool determination. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. v2: Joonsoo pointed out that it'd better to align struct worker_pool rather than the array so that every pool is aligned. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: remove worker_pool->gcwqTejun Heo
The only remaining user of pool->gcwq is std_worker_pool_pri(). Reimplement it using get_gcwq() and remove worker_pool->gcwq. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: replace for_each_worker_pool() with for_each_std_worker_pool()Tejun Heo
for_each_std_worker_pool() takes @cpu instead of @gcwq. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: make freezing/thawing per-poolTejun Heo
Instead of holding locks from both pools and then processing the pools together, make freezing/thwaing per-pool - grab locks of one pool, process it, release it and then proceed to the next pool. While this patch changes processing order across pools, order within each pool remains the same. As each pool is independent, this shouldn't break anything. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: make hotplug processing per-poolTejun Heo
Instead of holding locks from both pools and then processing the pools together, make hotplug processing per-pool - grab locks of one pool, process it, release it and then proceed to the next pool. rebind_workers() is updated to take and process @pool instead of @gcwq which results in a lot of de-indentation. gcwq_claim_assoc_and_lock() and its counterpart are replaced with in-line per-pool locking. While this patch changes processing order across pools, order within each pool remains the same. As each pool is independent, this shouldn't break anything. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: move global_cwq->lock to worker_poolTejun Heo
Move gcwq->lock to pool->lock. The conversion is mostly straight-forward. Things worth noting are * In many places, this removes the need to use gcwq completely. pool is used directly instead. get_std_worker_pool() is added to help some of these conversions. This also leaves get_work_gcwq() without any user. Removed. * In hotplug and freezer paths, the pools belonging to a CPU are often processed together. This patch makes those paths hold locks of all pools, with highpri lock nested inside, to keep the conversion straight-forward. These nested lockings will be removed by following patches. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: move global_cwq->cpu to worker_poolTejun Heo
Move gcwq->cpu to pool->cpu. This introduces a couple places where gcwq->pools[0].cpu is used. These will soon go away as gcwq is further reduced. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: move busy_hash from global_cwq to worker_poolTejun Heo
There's no functional necessity for the two pools on the same CPU to share the busy hash table. It's also likely to be a bottleneck when implementing pools with user-specified attributes. This patch makes busy_hash per-pool. The conversion is mostly straight-forward. Changes worth noting are, * Large block of changes in rebind_workers() is moving the block inside for_each_worker_pool() as now there are separate hash tables for each pool. This changes the order of operations but doesn't break anything. * Thre for_each_worker_pool() loops in gcwq_unbind_fn() are combined into one. This again changes the order of operaitons but doesn't break anything. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: record pool ID instead of CPU in work->data when off-queueTejun Heo
Currently, when a work item is off-queue, work->data records the CPU it was last on, which is used to locate the last executing instance for non-reentrance, flushing, etc. We're in the process of removing global_cwq and making worker_pool the top level abstraction. This patch makes work->data point to the pool it was last associated with instead of CPU. After the previous WORK_OFFQ_POOL_CPU and worker_poo->id additions, the conversion is fairly straight-forward. WORK_OFFQ constants and functions are modified to record and read back pool ID instead. worker_pool_by_id() is added to allow looking up pool from ID. get_work_pool() replaces get_work_gcwq(), which is reimplemented using get_work_pool(). get_work_pool_id() replaces work_cpu(). This patch shouldn't introduce any observable behavior changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: add worker_pool->idTejun Heo
Add worker_pool->id which is allocated from worker_pool_idr. This will be used to record the last associated worker_pool in work->data. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: introduce WORK_OFFQ_CPU_NONETejun Heo
Currently, when a work item is off queue, high bits of its data encodes the last CPU it was on. This is scheduled to be changed to pool ID, which will make it impossible to use WORK_CPU_NONE to indicate no association. This patch limits the number of bits which are used for off-queue cpu number to 31 (so that the max fits in an int) and uses the highest possible value - WORK_OFFQ_CPU_NONE - to indicate no association. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: make GCWQ_FREEZING a pool flagTejun Heo
Make GCWQ_FREEZING a pool flag POOL_FREEZING. This patch doesn't change locking - FREEZING on both pools of a CPU are set or clear together while holding gcwq->lock. It shouldn't cause any functional difference. This leaves gcwq->flags w/o any flags. Removed. While at it, convert BUG_ON()s in freeze_workqueue_begin() and thaw_workqueues() to WARN_ON_ONCE(). This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: make GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED a pool flagTejun Heo
Make GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED a pool flag POOL_DISASSOCIATED. This patch doesn't change locking - DISASSOCIATED on both pools of a CPU are set or clear together while holding gcwq->lock. It shouldn't cause any functional difference. This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker pools with user-specified attributes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: use std_ prefix for the standard per-cpu poolsTejun Heo
There are currently two worker pools per cpu (including the unbound cpu) and they are the only pools in use. New class of pools are scheduled to be added and some pool related APIs will be added inbetween. Call the existing pools the standard pools and prefix them with std_. Do this early so that new APIs can use std_ prefix from the beginning. This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24workqueue: unexport work_cpu()Tejun Heo
This function no longer has any external users. Unexport it. It will be removed later on. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-18workqueue: move struct worker definition to workqueue_internal.hTejun Heo
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>
2013-01-18workqueue: rename kernel/workqueue_sched.h to kernel/workqueue_internal.hTejun Heo
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>
2013-01-17workqueue: set PF_WQ_WORKER on rescuersTejun Heo
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>
2012-12-19workqueue: fix find_worker_executing_work() brekage from hashtable conversionTejun Heo
42f8570f43 ("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>
2012-12-18workqueue: consider work function when searching for busy work itemsTejun Heo
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
2012-12-18workqueue: use new hashtable implementationSasha Levin
Switch workqueues to use the new hashtable implementation. This reduces the amount of generic unrelated code in the workqueues. This patch depends on d9b482c ("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>
2012-12-12Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "Nothing exciting. Just two trivial changes." * 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: add WARN_ON_ONCE() on CPU number to wq_worker_waking_up() workqueue: trivial fix for return statement in work_busy()
2012-12-04workqueue: convert BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()sTejun Heo
8852aac25e ("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. 8852aac25e 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 c1d390d8e6 ("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>
2012-12-01workqueue: add WARN_ON_ONCE() on CPU number to wq_worker_waking_up()Joonsoo Kim
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>
2012-12-01workqueue: trivial fix for return statement in work_busy()Joonsoo Kim
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>
2012-12-01workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on 0 delayTejun Heo
8376fe22c7 ("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=1379012 Signed-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>
2012-12-01workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNINGMike Galbraith
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
2012-10-24workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %false if work item is idleDan Magenheimer
57b30ae77b ("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>
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1. A lot of activities this round including considerable API and behavior cleanups. * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item. The handling of the timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors. delayed_work is updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as expected. * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded timer+work usages. mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added. These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface and behave like timer which is executed with process context. * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and half-broken under certain circumstances. This problem doesn't exist for non-reentrant workqueues. While non-reentrancy check isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario the overhead isn't too high. All workqueues are made non-reentrant. This removes the distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and flush_[delayed_]_work_sync(). The former is now as strong as the latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished execution of any previous queueing on return. * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU hotplug handling significantly. * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU hotplug. There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them." Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts. Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more. * 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits) workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active() workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues() workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight() workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback() workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work() workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync() ...
2012-09-20workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()Tejun Heo
e0aecdd874 ("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>
2012-09-19workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()Lai Jiangshan
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>
2012-09-19workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()Lai Jiangshan
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>
2012-09-19workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wqTejun Heo
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
2012-09-18workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()Lai Jiangshan
@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>
2012-09-18workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work itemLai Jiangshan
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
2012-09-18workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()Lai Jiangshan
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>
2012-09-18workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacksLai Jiangshan
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>
2012-09-18workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutexLai Jiangshan
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>
2012-09-18workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebindingLai Jiangshan
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>
2012-09-18workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebindingLai Jiangshan
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>
2012-09-18workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebindingLai Jiangshan
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>
2012-09-17Merge branch 'for-3.6-fixes' of ↵Tejun Heo
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq into for-3.7 This merge is necessary as Lai's CPU hotplug restructuring series depends on the CPU hotplug bug fixes in for-3.6-fixes. The merge creates one trivial conflict between the following two commits. 96e65306b8 "workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic" e2b6a6d570 "workqueue: use system_highpri_wq for highpri workers in rebind_workers()" Both add local variable definitions to the same block and can be merged in any order. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-17workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()Lai Jiangshan
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 25511a477 "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>
2012-09-10workqueue: fix possible idle worker depletion across CPU hotplugLai Jiangshan
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>