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authorIgor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@google.com>2022-01-27 15:39:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-02-03 11:20:34 -0800
commit67d6212afda218d564890d1674bab28e8612170f (patch)
tree53e1b46226c15ee31ecd0c34aa562bca970c798f /include
parent305e6c42e8de565864431510230a8ad75c85f4d4 (diff)
Revert "module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used"
This reverts commit 774a1221e862b343388347bac9b318767336b20b. We need to finish all async code before the module init sequence is done. In the reverted commit the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was added to mark a thread that called async_schedule(). Then the PF_USED_ASYNC flag was used to determine whether or not async_synchronize_full() needs to be invoked. This works when modprobe thread is calling async_schedule(), but it does not work if module dispatches init code to a worker thread which then calls async_schedule(). For example, PCI driver probing is invoked from a worker thread based on a node where device is attached: if (cpu < nr_cpu_ids) error = work_on_cpu(cpu, local_pci_probe, &ddi); else error = local_pci_probe(&ddi); We end up in a situation where a worker thread gets the PF_USED_ASYNC flag set instead of the modprobe thread. As a result, async_synchronize_full() is not invoked and modprobe completes without waiting for the async code to finish. The issue was discovered while loading the pm80xx driver: (scsi_mod.scan=async) modprobe pm80xx worker ... do_init_module() ... pci_call_probe() work_on_cpu(local_pci_probe) local_pci_probe() pm8001_pci_probe() scsi_scan_host() async_schedule() worker->flags |= PF_USED_ASYNC; ... < return from worker > ... if (current->flags & PF_USED_ASYNC) <--- false async_synchronize_full(); Commit 21c3c5d28007 ("block: don't request module during elevator init") fixed the deadlock issue which the reverted commit 774a1221e862 ("module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used") tried to fix. Since commit 0fdff3ec6d87 ("async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers") synchronous module loading from async is not allowed. Given that the original deadlock issue is fixed and it is no longer allowed to call synchronous request_module() from async we can remove PF_USED_ASYNC flag to make module init consistently invoke async_synchronize_full() unless async module probe is requested. Signed-off-by: Igor Pylypiv <ipylypiv@google.com> Reviewed-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index f5b2be39a78c..75ba8aa60248 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1680,7 +1680,6 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid;
#define PF_MEMALLOC 0x00000800 /* Allocating memory */
#define PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED 0x00001000 /* set_user() noticed that RLIMIT_NPROC was exceeded */
#define PF_USED_MATH 0x00002000 /* If unset the fpu must be initialized before use */
-#define PF_USED_ASYNC 0x00004000 /* Used async_schedule*(), used by module init */
#define PF_NOFREEZE 0x00008000 /* This thread should not be frozen */
#define PF_FROZEN 0x00010000 /* Frozen for system suspend */
#define PF_KSWAPD 0x00020000 /* I am kswapd */