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2016-03-18Merge branch 'for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: "Three trivial workqueue changes" * 'for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: Fix comment for work_on_cpu() sched/core: Get rid of 'cpu' argument in wq_worker_sleeping() workqueue: Replace usage of init_name with dev_set_name()
2016-03-15tags: Fix DEFINE_PER_CPU expansionsPeter Zijlstra
$ make tags GEN tags ctags: Warning: drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:64: null expansion of name pattern "\1" ctags: Warning: drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c:41: null expansion of name pattern "\1" ctags: Warning: kernel/locking/lockdep.c:151: null expansion of name pattern "\1" ctags: Warning: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:133: null expansion of name pattern "\1" ctags: Warning: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:135: null expansion of name pattern "\1" ctags: Warning: kernel/workqueue.c:323: null expansion of name pattern "\1" ctags: Warning: net/ipv4/syncookies.c:53: null expansion of name pattern "\1" ctags: Warning: net/ipv6/syncookies.c:44: null expansion of name pattern "\1" ctags: Warning: net/rds/page.c:45: null expansion of name pattern "\1" Which are all the result of the DEFINE_PER_CPU pattern: scripts/tags.sh:200: '/\<DEFINE_PER_CPU([^,]*, *\([[:alnum:]_]*\)/\1/v/' scripts/tags.sh:201: '/\<DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED([^,]*, *\([[:alnum:]_]*\)/\1/v/' The below cures them. All except the workqueue one are within reasonable distance of the 80 char limit. TJ do you have any preference on how to fix the wq one, or shall we just not care its too long? Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-11workqueue: Fix comment for work_on_cpu()Anna-Maria Gleixner
Function is processed in thread context, not in user context. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-03-02sched/core: Get rid of 'cpu' argument in wq_worker_sleeping()Alexander Gordeev
Given that wq_worker_sleeping() could only be called for a CPU it is running on, we do not need passing a CPU ID as an argument. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-02-17workqueue: Replace usage of init_name with dev_set_name()Lars-Peter Clausen
The init_name property of the device struct is sort of a hack and should only be used for statically allocated devices. Since the device is dynamically allocated here it is safe to use the proper way to set a devices name by calling dev_set_name(). Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-02-10workqueue: handle NUMA_NO_NODE for unbound pool_workqueue lookupTejun Heo
When looking up the pool_workqueue to use for an unbound workqueue, workqueue assumes that the target CPU is always bound to a valid NUMA node. However, currently, when a CPU goes offline, the mapping is destroyed and cpu_to_node() returns NUMA_NO_NODE. This has always been broken but hasn't triggered often enough before 874bbfe600a6 ("workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu"). After the commit, workqueue forcifully assigns the local CPU for delayed work items without explicit target CPU to fix a different issue. This widens the window where CPU can go offline while a delayed work item is pending causing delayed work items dispatched with target CPU set to an already offlined CPU. The resulting NUMA_NO_NODE mapping makes workqueue try to queue the work item on a NULL pool_workqueue and thus crash. While 874bbfe600a6 has been reverted for a different reason making the bug less visible again, it can still happen. Fix it by mapping NUMA_NO_NODE to the default pool_workqueue from unbound_pwq_by_node(). This is a temporary workaround. The long term solution is keeping CPU -> NODE mapping stable across CPU off/online cycles which is being worked on. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1454424264.11183.46.camel@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1453702100-2597-1-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com
2016-02-09workqueue: implement "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" debug featureTejun Heo
Workqueue used to guarantee local execution for work items queued without explicit target CPU. The guarantee is gone now which can break some usages in subtle ways. To flush out those cases, this patch implements a debug feature which forces round-robin CPU selection for all such work items. The debug feature defaults to off and can be enabled with a kernel parameter. The default can be flipped with a debug config option. If you hit this commit during bisection, please refer to 041bd12e272c ("Revert "workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu"") for more information and ping me. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-02-09workqueue: schedule WORK_CPU_UNBOUND work on wq_unbound_cpumask CPUsMike Galbraith
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND work items queued to a bound workqueue always run locally. This is a good thing normally, but not when the user has asked us to keep unbound work away from certain CPUs. Round robin these to wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs instead, as perturbation avoidance trumps performance. tj: Cosmetic and comment changes. WARN_ON_ONCE() dropped from empty (wq_unbound_cpumask AND cpu_online_mask). If we want that, it should be done when config changes. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-02-09Revert "workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu"Tejun Heo
This reverts commit 874bbfe600a660cba9c776b3957b1ce393151b76. Workqueue used to implicity guarantee that work items queued without explicit CPU specified are put on the local CPU. Recent changes in timer broke the guarantee and led to vmstat breakage which was fixed by 176bed1de5bf ("vmstat: explicitly schedule per-cpu work on the CPU we need it to run on"). vmstat is the most likely to expose the issue and it's quite possible that there are other similar problems which are a lot more difficult to trigger. As a preventive measure, 874bbfe600a6 ("workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu") was applied to restore the local CPU guarnatee. Unfortunately, the change exposed a bug in timer code which got fixed by 22b886dd1018 ("timers: Use proper base migration in add_timer_on()"). Due to code restructuring, the commit couldn't be backported beyond certain point and stable kernels which only had 874bbfe600a6 started crashing. The local CPU guarantee was accidental more than anything else and we want to get rid of it anyway. As, with the vmstat case fixed, 874bbfe600a6 is causing more problems than it's fixing, it has been decided to take the chance and officially break the guarantee by reverting the commit. A debug feature will be added to force foreign CPU assignment to expose cases relying on the guarantee and fixes for the individual cases will be backported to stable as necessary. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: 874bbfe600a6 ("workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160120211926.GJ10810@quack.suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Daniel Bilik <daniel.bilik@neosystem.cz> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Daniel Bilik <daniel.bilik@neosystem.cz> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
2016-01-29workqueue: skip flush dependency checks for legacy workqueuesTejun Heo
fca839c00a12 ("workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue") implemented flush dependency warning which triggers if a PF_MEMALLOC task or WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue tries to flush a !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workquee. This assumes that workqueues marked with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM sit in memory reclaim path and making it depend on something which may need more memory to make forward progress can lead to deadlocks. Unfortunately, workqueues created with the legacy create*_workqueue() interface always have WQ_MEM_RECLAIM regardless of whether they are depended upon memory reclaim or not. These spurious WQ_MEM_RECLAIM markings cause spurious triggering of the flush dependency checks. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6 at kernel/workqueue.c:2361 check_flush_dependency+0x138/0x144() workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM deferwq:deferred_probe_work_func is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events:lru_add_drain_per_cpu ... Workqueue: deferwq deferred_probe_work_func [<c0017acc>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013134>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) [<c0013134>] (show_stack) from [<c0245f18>] (dump_stack+0x94/0xd4) [<c0245f18>] (dump_stack) from [<c0026f9c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0xb0) [<c0026f9c>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c0026ffc>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40) [<c0026ffc>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c00390b8>] (check_flush_dependency+0x138/0x144) [<c00390b8>] (check_flush_dependency) from [<c0039ca0>] (flush_work+0x50/0x15c) [<c0039ca0>] (flush_work) from [<c00c51b0>] (lru_add_drain_all+0x130/0x180) [<c00c51b0>] (lru_add_drain_all) from [<c00f728c>] (migrate_prep+0x8/0x10) [<c00f728c>] (migrate_prep) from [<c00bfbc4>] (alloc_contig_range+0xd8/0x338) [<c00bfbc4>] (alloc_contig_range) from [<c00f8f18>] (cma_alloc+0xe0/0x1ac) [<c00f8f18>] (cma_alloc) from [<c001cac4>] (__alloc_from_contiguous+0x38/0xd8) [<c001cac4>] (__alloc_from_contiguous) from [<c001ceb4>] (__dma_alloc+0x240/0x278) [<c001ceb4>] (__dma_alloc) from [<c001cf78>] (arm_dma_alloc+0x54/0x5c) [<c001cf78>] (arm_dma_alloc) from [<c0355ea4>] (dmam_alloc_coherent+0xc0/0xec) [<c0355ea4>] (dmam_alloc_coherent) from [<c039cc4c>] (ahci_port_start+0x150/0x1dc) [<c039cc4c>] (ahci_port_start) from [<c0384734>] (ata_host_start.part.3+0xc8/0x1c8) [<c0384734>] (ata_host_start.part.3) from [<c03898dc>] (ata_host_activate+0x50/0x148) [<c03898dc>] (ata_host_activate) from [<c039d558>] (ahci_host_activate+0x44/0x114) [<c039d558>] (ahci_host_activate) from [<c039f05c>] (ahci_platform_init_host+0x1d8/0x3c8) [<c039f05c>] (ahci_platform_init_host) from [<c039e6bc>] (tegra_ahci_probe+0x448/0x4e8) [<c039e6bc>] (tegra_ahci_probe) from [<c0347058>] (platform_drv_probe+0x50/0xac) [<c0347058>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c03458cc>] (driver_probe_device+0x214/0x2c0) [<c03458cc>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c0343cc0>] (bus_for_each_drv+0x60/0x94) [<c0343cc0>] (bus_for_each_drv) from [<c03455d8>] (__device_attach+0xb0/0x114) [<c03455d8>] (__device_attach) from [<c0344ab8>] (bus_probe_device+0x84/0x8c) [<c0344ab8>] (bus_probe_device) from [<c0344f48>] (deferred_probe_work_func+0x68/0x98) [<c0344f48>] (deferred_probe_work_func) from [<c003b738>] (process_one_work+0x120/0x3f8) [<c003b738>] (process_one_work) from [<c003ba48>] (worker_thread+0x38/0x55c) [<c003ba48>] (worker_thread) from [<c0040f14>] (kthread+0xdc/0xf4) [<c0040f14>] (kthread) from [<c000f778>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c) Fix it by marking workqueues created via create*_workqueue() with __WQ_LEGACY and disabling flush dependency checks on them. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160126173843.GA11115@ulmo.nvidia.com Fixes: fca839c00a12 ("workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue")
2016-01-07workqueue: simplify the apply_workqueue_attrs_locked()wanghaibin
If the apply_wqattrs_prepare() returns NULL, it has already cleaned up the related resources, so it can return directly and avoid calling the clean up function again. This doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: wanghaibin <wanghaibin.wang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-12-08workqueue: implement lockup detectorTejun Heo
Workqueue stalls can happen from a variety of usage bugs such as missing WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag or concurrency managed work item indefinitely staying RUNNING. These stalls can be extremely difficult to hunt down because the usual warning mechanisms can't detect workqueue stalls and the internal state is pretty opaque. To alleviate the situation, this patch implements workqueue lockup detector. It periodically monitors all worker_pools periodically and, if any pool failed to make forward progress longer than the threshold duration, triggers warning and dumps workqueue state as follows. BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 31s! Showing busy workqueues and worker pools: workqueue events: flags=0x0 pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=17/256 pending: monkey_wrench_fn, e1000_watchdog, cache_reap, vmstat_shepherd, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, cgroup_release_agent workqueue events_power_efficient: flags=0x80 pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256 pending: check_lifetime, neigh_periodic_work workqueue cgroup_pidlist_destroy: flags=0x0 pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/1 pending: cgroup_pidlist_destroy_work_fn ... The detection mechanism is controller through kernel parameter workqueue.watchdog_thresh and can be updated at runtime through the sysfs module parameter file. v2: Decoupled from softlockup control knobs. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2015-12-08workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueueTejun Heo
Task or work item involved in memory reclaim trying to flush a non-WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue or one of its work items can lead to deadlock. Trigger WARN_ONCE() if such conditions are detected. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2015-11-05Merge branch 'for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue update from Tejun Heo: "This pull request contains one patch to make an unbound worker pool allocated from the NUMA node containing it if such node exists. As unbound worker pools are node-affine by default, this makes most pools allocated on the right node" * 'for-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: Allocate the unbound pool using local node memory
2015-10-12workqueue: Allocate the unbound pool using local node memoryXunlei Pang
Currently, get_unbound_pool() uses kzalloc() to allocate the worker pool. Actually, we can use the right node to do the allocation, achieving local memory access. This patch selects target node first, and uses kzalloc_node() instead. Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-09-30workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpuShaohua Li
My system keeps crashing with below message. vmstat_update() schedules a delayed work in current cpu and expects the work runs in the cpu. schedule_delayed_work() is expected to make delayed work run in local cpu. The problem is timer can be migrated with NO_HZ. __queue_work() queues work in timer handler, which could run in a different cpu other than where the delayed work is scheduled. The end result is the delayed work runs in different cpu. The patch makes __queue_delayed_work records local cpu earlier. Where the timer runs doesn't change where the work runs with the change. [ 28.010131] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 28.010609] kernel BUG at ../mm/vmstat.c:1392! [ 28.011099] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN [ 28.011860] Modules linked in: [ 28.012245] CPU: 0 PID: 289 Comm: kworker/0:3 Tainted: G W4.3.0-rc3+ #634 [ 28.013065] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140709_153802- 04/01/2014 [ 28.014160] Workqueue: events vmstat_update [ 28.014571] task: ffff880117682580 ti: ffff8800ba428000 task.ti: ffff8800ba428000 [ 28.015445] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8115f921>] [<ffffffff8115f921>]vmstat_update+0x31/0x80 [ 28.016282] RSP: 0018:ffff8800ba42fd80 EFLAGS: 00010297 [ 28.016812] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88011a858dc0 RCX:0000000000000000 [ 28.017585] RDX: ffff880117682580 RSI: ffffffff81f14d8c RDI:ffffffff81f4df8d [ 28.018366] RBP: ffff8800ba42fd90 R08: 0000000000000001 R09:0000000000000000 [ 28.019169] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000121 R12:ffff8800baa9f640 [ 28.019947] R13: ffff88011a81e340 R14: ffff88011a823700 R15:0000000000000000 [ 28.020071] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88011a800000(0000)knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 28.020071] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 28.020071] CR2: 00007ff6144b01d0 CR3: 00000000b8e93000 CR4:00000000000006f0 [ 28.020071] Stack: [ 28.020071] ffff88011a858dc0 ffff8800baa9f640 ffff8800ba42fe00ffffffff8106bd88 [ 28.020071] ffffffff8106bd0b 0000000000000096 0000000000000000ffffffff82f9b1e8 [ 28.020071] ffffffff829f0b10 0000000000000000 ffffffff81f18460ffff88011a81e340 [ 28.020071] Call Trace: [ 28.020071] [<ffffffff8106bd88>] process_one_work+0x1c8/0x540 [ 28.020071] [<ffffffff8106bd0b>] ? process_one_work+0x14b/0x540 [ 28.020071] [<ffffffff8106c214>] worker_thread+0x114/0x460 [ 28.020071] [<ffffffff8106c100>] ? process_one_work+0x540/0x540 [ 28.020071] [<ffffffff81071bf8>] kthread+0xf8/0x110 [ 28.020071] [<ffffffff81071b00>] ?kthread_create_on_node+0x200/0x200 [ 28.020071] [<ffffffff81a6522f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [ 28.020071] [<ffffffff81071b00>] ?kthread_create_on_node+0x200/0x200 Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.31+
2015-09-02Merge branch 'for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: "Only three trivial changes for workqueue this time - doc, MAINTAINERS and EXPORT_SYMBOL updates" * 'for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: fix some docbook warnings workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modules workqueue: add myself as a dedicated reviwer
2015-08-31Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest change in this cycle is the rewrite of the main SMP load balancing metric: the CPU load/utilization. The main goal was to make the metric more precise and more representative - see the changelog of this commit for the gory details: 9d89c257dfb9 ("sched/fair: Rewrite runnable load and utilization average tracking") It is done in a way that significantly reduces complexity of the code: 5 files changed, 249 insertions(+), 494 deletions(-) and the performance testing results are encouraging. Nevertheless we need to keep an eye on potential regressions, since this potentially affects every SMP workload in existence. This work comes from Yuyang Du. Other changes: - SCHED_DL updates. (Andrea Parri) - Simplify architecture callbacks by removing finish_arch_switch(). (Peter Zijlstra et al) - cputime accounting: guarantee stime + utime == rtime. (Peter Zijlstra) - optimize idle CPU wakeups some more - inspired by Facebook server loads. (Mike Galbraith) - stop_machine fixes and updates. (Oleg Nesterov) - Introduce the 'trace_sched_waking' tracepoint. (Peter Zijlstra) - sched/numa tweaks. (Srikar Dronamraju) - misc fixes and small cleanups" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits) sched/deadline: Fix comment in enqueue_task_dl() sched/deadline: Fix comment in push_dl_tasks() sched: Change the sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() calling context sched: Make sched_class::set_cpus_allowed() unconditional sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity() sched: Ensure a task has a non-normalized vruntime when returning back to CFS sched/numa: Fix NUMA_DIRECT topology identification tile: Reorganize _switch_to() sched, sparc32: Update scheduler comments in copy_thread() sched: Remove finish_arch_switch() sched, tile: Remove finish_arch_switch sched, sh: Fold finish_arch_switch() into switch_to() sched, score: Remove finish_arch_switch() sched, avr32: Remove finish_arch_switch() sched, MIPS: Get rid of finish_arch_switch() sched, arm: Remove finish_arch_switch() sched/fair: Clean up load average references sched/fair: Provide runnable_load_avg back to cfs_rq sched/fair: Remove task and group entity load when they are dead sched/fair: Init cfs_rq's sched_entity load average ...
2015-08-12sched: Fix a race between __kthread_bind() and sched_setaffinity()Peter Zijlstra
Because sched_setscheduler() checks p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY without locks, a caller might observe an old value and race with the set_cpus_allowed_ptr() call from __kthread_bind() and effectively undo it: __kthread_bind() do_set_cpus_allowed() <SYSCALL> sched_setaffinity() if (p->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITIY) set_cpus_allowed_ptr() p->flags |= PF_NO_SETAFFINITY Fix the bug by putting everything under the regular scheduler locks. This also closes a hole in the serialization of task_struct::{nr_,}cpus_allowed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dedekind1@gmail.com Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: mgorman@suse.de Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150515154833.545640346@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-04workqueue: Make flush_workqueue() available again to non GPL modulesTim Gardner
Commit 37b1ef31a568fc02e53587620226e5f3c66454c8 ("workqueue: move flush_scheduled_work() to workqueue.h") moved the exported non GPL flush_scheduled_work() from a function to an inline wrapper. Unfortunately, it directly calls flush_workqueue() which is a GPL function. This has the effect of changing the licensing requirement for this function and makes it unavailable to non GPL modules. See commit ad7b1f841f8a54c6d61ff181451f55b68175e15a ("workqueue: Make schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules") for precedent. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-07-22rcu: Rename rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN()Paul E. McKenney
This commit renames rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() for consistency with the WARN() series of macros. This also requires inverting the sense of the conditional, which this commit also does. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-01Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization to speed module address lookup. He found some abusers of the module lock doing that too. A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load another module (yeah, really). Unfortunately that broke the usual suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were appended too" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits) modules: only use mod->param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS. rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() module: add per-module param_lock module: make perm const params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes. modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'. kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks module: Rework module_addr_{min,max} module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup() module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch() ...
2015-05-29workqueue: fix typos in commentsShailendra Verma
tj: dropped iff -> if, iff is if and only if not a typo. Spotted by Randy Dunlap. Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.capricorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
2015-05-28kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficientLuis R. Rodriguez
We can avoid an ifdef over wq_power_efficient's declaration by just using IS_ENABLED(). Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2015-05-21workqueue: move flush_scheduled_work() to workqueue.hLai Jiangshan
flush_scheduled_work() is just a simple call to flush_work(). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-05-21workqueue: remove the lock from wq_sysfs_prep_attrs()Lai Jiangshan
Reading to wq->unbound_attrs requires protection of either wq_pool_mutex or wq->mutex, and wq_sysfs_prep_attrs() is called with wq_pool_mutex held, so we don't need to grab wq->mutex here. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-05-21workqueue: remove the declaration of copy_workqueue_attrs()Lai Jiangshan
This pre-declaration was unneeded since a previous refactor patch 6ba94429c8e7 ("workqueue: Reorder sysfs code"). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-05-19workqueue: ensure attrs changes are properly synchronizedLai Jiangshan
Current modification to attrs via sysfs is not fully synchronized. Process A (change cpumask) | Process B (change numa affinity) wq_cpumask_store() | wq_sysfs_prep_attrs() | | apply_workqueue_attrs() apply_workqueue_attrs() | It results that the Process B's operation is totally reverted without any notification, it is a buggy behavior. So this patch moves wq_sysfs_prep_attrs() into the protection under wq_pool_mutex to ensure attrs changes are properly synchronized. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-05-19workqueue: separate out and refactor the locking of applying attrsLai Jiangshan
Applying attrs requires two locks: get_online_cpus() and wq_pool_mutex, and this code is duplicated at two places (apply_workqueue_attrs() and workqueue_set_unbound_cpumask()). So we separate out this locking code into apply_wqattrs_[un]lock() and do a minor refactor on apply_workqueue_attrs(). The apply_wqattrs_[un]lock() will be also used on later patch for ensuring attrs changes are properly synchronized. tj: minor updates to comments Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-05-18workqueue: simplify wq_update_unbound_numa()Lai Jiangshan
wq_update_unbound_numa() is known be called with wq_pool_mutex held. But wq_update_unbound_numa() requests wq->mutex before reading wq->unbound_attrs, wq->numa_pwq_tbl[] and wq->dfl_pwq. But these fields were changed to be allowed being read with wq_pool_mutex held. So we simply remove the mutex_lock(&wq->mutex). Without the dependence on the the mutex_lock(&wq->mutex), the test of wq->unbound_attrs->no_numa can also be moved upward. The old code need a long comment to describe the stableness of @wq->unbound_attrs which is also guaranteed by wq_pool_mutex now, so we don't need this such comment. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-05-18workqueue: wq_pool_mutex protects the attrs-installationLai Jiangshan
Current wq_pool_mutex doesn't proctect the attrs-installation, it results that ->unbound_attrs, ->numa_pwq_tbl[] and ->dfl_pwq can only be accessed under wq->mutex and causes some inconveniences. Example, wq_update_unbound_numa() has to acquire wq->mutex before fetching the wq->unbound_attrs->no_numa and the old_pwq. attrs-installation is a short operation, so this change will no cause any latency for other operations which also acquire the wq_pool_mutex. The only unprotected attrs-installation code is in apply_workqueue_attrs(), so this patch touches code less than comments. It is also a preparation patch for next several patches which read wq->unbound_attrs, wq->numa_pwq_tbl[] and wq->dfl_pwq with only wq_pool_mutex held. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-05-13workqueue: fix a typoChen Hanxiao
s/detemined/determined Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-05-11workqueue: function name in the comment differs from the real function nameGong Zhaogang
modify wq_calc_node_mask to wq_calc_node_cpumask Signed-off-by: Gong Zhaogang <gongzhaogang@inspur.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-04-30workqueue: Allow modifying low level unbound workqueue cpumaskLai Jiangshan
Allow to modify the low-level unbound workqueues cpumask through sysfs. This is performed by traversing the entire workqueue list and calling apply_wqattrs_prepare() on the unbound workqueues with the new low level mask. Only after all the preparation are done, we commit them all together. Ordered workqueues are ignored from the low level unbound workqueue cpumask, it will be handled in near future. All the (default & per-node) pwqs are mandatorily controlled by the low level cpumask. If the user configured cpumask doesn't overlap with the low level cpumask, the low level cpumask will be used for the wq instead. The comment of wq_calc_node_cpumask() is updated and explicitly requires that its first argument should be the attrs of the default pwq. The default wq_unbound_cpumask is cpu_possible_mask. The workqueue subsystem doesn't know its best default value, let the system manager or the other subsystem set it when needed. Changed from V8: merge the calculating code for the attrs of the default pwq together. minor change the code&comments for saving the user configured attrs. remove unnecessary list_del(). minor update the comment of wq_calc_node_cpumask(). update the comment of workqueue_set_unbound_cpumask(); Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-04-27workqueue: Create low-level unbound workqueues cpumaskFrederic Weisbecker
Create a cpumask that limits the affinity of all unbound workqueues. This cpumask is controlled through a file at the root of the workqueue sysfs directory. It works on a lower-level than the per WQ_SYSFS workqueues cpumask files such that the effective cpumask applied for a given unbound workqueue is the intersection of /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/$WORKQUEUE/cpumask and the new /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/cpumask file. This patch implements the basic infrastructure and the read interface. wq_unbound_cpumask is initially set to cpu_possible_mask. Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-04-27workqueue: split apply_workqueue_attrs() into 3 stagesLai Jiangshan
Current apply_workqueue_attrs() includes pwqs-allocation and pwqs-installation, so when we batch multiple apply_workqueue_attrs()s as a transaction, we can't ensure the transaction must succeed or fail as a complete unit. To solve this, we split apply_workqueue_attrs() into three stages. The first stage does the preparation: allocation memory, pwqs. The second stage does the attrs-installaion and pwqs-installation. The third stage frees the allocated memory and (old or unused) pwqs. As the result, batching multiple apply_workqueue_attrs()s can succeed or fail as a complete unit: 1) batch do all the first stage for all the workqueues 2) only commit all when all the above succeed. This patch is a preparation for the next patch ("Allow modifying low level unbound workqueue cpumask") which will do a multiple apply_workqueue_attrs(). The patch doesn't have functionality changed except two minor adjustment: 1) free_unbound_pwq() for the error path is removed, we use the heavier version put_pwq_unlocked() instead since the error path is rare. this adjustment simplifies the code. 2) the memory-allocation is also moved into wq_pool_mutex. this is needed to avoid to do the further splitting. tj: minor updates to comments. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-04-06workqueue: Reorder sysfs codeFrederic Weisbecker
The sysfs code usually belongs to the botom of the file since it deals with high level objects. In the workqueue code it's misplaced and such that we'll need to work around functions references to allow the sysfs code to call APIs like apply_workqueue_attrs(). Lets move that block further in the file, almost the botom. And declare workqueue_sysfs_unregister() just before destroy_workqueue() which reference it. tj: Moved workqueue_sysfs_unregister() forward declaration where other forward declarations are. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-03-09workqueue: dump workqueues on sysrq-tTejun Heo
Workqueues are used extensively throughout the kernel but sometimes it's difficult to debug stalls involving work items because visibility into its inner workings is fairly limited. Although sysrq-t task dump annotates each active worker task with the information on the work item being executed, it is challenging to find out which work items are pending or delayed on which queues and how pools are being managed. This patch implements show_workqueue_state() which dumps all busy workqueues and pools and is called from the sysrq-t handler. At the end of sysrq-t dump, something like the following is printed. Showing busy workqueues and worker pools: ... workqueue filler_wq: flags=0x0 pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256 in-flight: 491:filler_workfn, 507:filler_workfn pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256 in-flight: 501:filler_workfn pending: filler_workfn ... workqueue test_wq: flags=0x8 pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/1 in-flight: 510(RESCUER):test_workfn BAR(69) BAR(500) delayed: test_workfn1 BAR(492), test_workfn2 ... pool 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 137 pool 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=3 manager: 469 pool 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 workers=2 idle: 16 pool 8: cpus=0-3 flags=0x4 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 62 The above shows that test_wq is executing test_workfn() on pid 510 which is the rescuer and also that there are two tasks 69 and 500 waiting for the work item to finish in flush_work(). As test_wq has max_active of 1, there are two work items for test_workfn1() and test_workfn2() which are delayed till the current work item is finished. In addition, pid 492 is flushing test_workfn1(). The work item for test_workfn() is being executed on pwq of pool 2 which is the normal priority per-cpu pool for CPU 1. The pool has three workers, two of which are executing filler_workfn() for filler_wq and the last one is assuming the manager role trying to create more workers. This extra workqueue state dump will hopefully help chasing down hangs involving workqueues. v3: cpulist_pr_cont() replaced with "%*pbl" printf formatting. v2: As suggested by Andrew, minor formatting change in pr_cont_work(), printk()'s replaced with pr_info()'s, and cpumask printing now uses cpulist_pr_cont(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2015-03-09workqueue: keep track of the flushing task and pool managerTejun Heo
Add wq_barrier->task and worker_pool->manager to keep track of the flushing task and pool manager respectively. These are purely informational and will be used to implement sysrq dump of workqueues. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-03-09workqueue: make the workqueues list RCU walkableTejun Heo
The workqueues list is protected by wq_pool_mutex and a workqueue and its subordinate data structures are freed directly on destruction. We want to add the ability dump workqueues from a sysrq callback which requires walking all workqueues without grabbing wq_pool_mutex. This patch makes freeing of workqueues RCU protected and makes the workqueues list walkable while holding RCU read lock. Note that pool_workqueues and pools are already sched-RCU protected. For consistency, workqueues are also protected with sched-RCU. While at it, reverse the workqueues list so that a workqueue which is created earlier comes before. The order of the list isn't significant functionally but this makes the planned sysrq dump list system workqueues first. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-03-05workqueue: fix hang involving racing cancel[_delayed]_work_sync()'s for ↵Tejun Heo
PREEMPT_NONE cancel[_delayed]_work_sync() are implemented using __cancel_work_timer() which grabs the PENDING bit using try_to_grab_pending() and then flushes the work item with PENDING set to prevent the on-going execution of the work item from requeueing itself. try_to_grab_pending() can always grab PENDING bit without blocking except when someone else is doing the above flushing during cancelation. In that case, try_to_grab_pending() returns -ENOENT. In this case, __cancel_work_timer() currently invokes flush_work(). The assumption is that the completion of the work item is what the other canceling task would be waiting for too and thus waiting for the same condition and retrying should allow forward progress without excessive busy looping Unfortunately, this doesn't work if preemption is disabled or the latter task has real time priority. Let's say task A just got woken up from flush_work() by the completion of the target work item. If, before task A starts executing, task B gets scheduled and invokes __cancel_work_timer() on the same work item, its try_to_grab_pending() will return -ENOENT as the work item is still being canceled by task A and flush_work() will also immediately return false as the work item is no longer executing. This puts task B in a busy loop possibly preventing task A from executing and clearing the canceling state on the work item leading to a hang. task A task B worker executing work __cancel_work_timer() try_to_grab_pending() set work CANCELING flush_work() block for work completion completion, wakes up A __cancel_work_timer() while (forever) { try_to_grab_pending() -ENOENT as work is being canceled flush_work() false as work is no longer executing } This patch removes the possible hang by updating __cancel_work_timer() to explicitly wait for clearing of CANCELING rather than invoking flush_work() after try_to_grab_pending() fails with -ENOENT. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150206171156.GA8942@axis.com v3: bit_waitqueue() can't be used for work items defined in vmalloc area. Switched to custom wake function which matches the target work item and exclusive wait and wakeup. v2: v1 used wake_up() on bit_waitqueue() which leads to NULL deref if the target bit waitqueue has wait_bit_queue's on it. Use DEFINE_WAIT_BIT() and __wake_up_bit() instead. Reported by Tomeu Vizoso. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com> Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
2015-02-13workqueue: use %*pb[l] to format bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasksTejun Heo
printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'. cpumask and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_args() respectively which can be used to generate the two printf arguments necessary to format the specified cpu/nodemask. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-16workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole worker_poolTejun Heo
A worker_pool's forward progress is guaranteed by the fact that the last idle worker assumes the manager role to create more workers and summon the rescuers if creating workers doesn't succeed in timely manner before proceeding to execute work items. This manager role is implemented in manage_workers(), which indicates whether the worker may proceed to work item execution with its return value. This is necessary because multiple workers may contend for the manager role, and, if there already is a manager, others should proceed to work item execution. Unfortunately, the function also indicates that the worker may proceed to work item execution if need_to_create_worker() is false at the head of the function. need_to_create_worker() tests the following conditions. pending work items && !nr_running && !nr_idle The first and third conditions are protected by pool->lock and thus won't change while holding pool->lock; however, nr_running can change asynchronously as other workers block and resume and while it's likely to be zero, as someone woke this worker up in the first place, some other workers could have become runnable inbetween making it non-zero. If this happens, manage_worker() could return false even with zero nr_idle making the worker, the last idle one, proceed to execute work items. If then all workers of the pool end up blocking on a resource which can only be released by a work item which is pending on that pool, the whole pool can deadlock as there's no one to create more workers or summon the rescuers. This patch fixes the problem by removing the early exit condition from maybe_create_worker() and making manage_workers() return false iff there's already another manager, which ensures that the last worker doesn't start executing work items. We can leave the early exit condition alone and just ignore the return value but the only reason it was put there is because the manage_workers() used to perform both creations and destructions of workers and thus the function may be invoked while the pool is trying to reduce the number of workers. Now that manage_workers() is called only when more workers are needed, the only case this early exit condition is triggered is rare race conditions rendering it pointless. Tested with simulated workload and modified workqueue code which trigger the pool deadlock reliably without this patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/54B019F4.8030009@sandeen.net Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2014-12-08workqueue: allow rescuer thread to do more work.NeilBrown
When there is serious memory pressure, all workers in a pool could be blocked, and a new thread cannot be created because it requires memory allocation. In this situation a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue will wake up the rescuer thread to do some work. The rescuer will only handle requests that are already on ->worklist. If max_requests is 1, that means it will handle a single request. The rescuer will be woken again in 100ms to handle another max_requests requests. I've seen a machine (running a 3.0 based "enterprise" kernel) with thousands of requests queued for xfslogd, which has a max_requests of 1, and is needed for retiring all 'xfs' write requests. When one of the worker pools gets into this state, it progresses extremely slowly and possibly never recovers (only waited an hour or two). With this patch we leave a pool_workqueue on mayday list until it is clearly no longer in need of assistance. This allows all requests to be handled in a timely fashion. We keep each pool_workqueue on the mayday list until need_to_create_worker() is false, and no work for this workqueue is found in the pool. I have tested this in combination with a (hackish) patch which forces all work items to be handled by the rescuer thread. In that context it significantly improves performance. A similar patch for a 3.0 kernel significantly improved performance on a heavy work load. Thanks to Jan Kara for some design ideas, and to Dongsu Park for some comments and testing. tj: Inverted the lock order between wq_mayday_lock and pool->lock with a preceding patch and simplified this patch. Added comment and updated changelog accordingly. Dongsu spotted missing get_pwq() in the simplified code. Cc: Dongsu Park <dongsu.park@profitbricks.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-12-08workqueue: invert the order between pool->lock and wq_mayday_lockTejun Heo
Currently, pool->lock nests inside pool->lock. There's no inherent reason for this order. The only place where the two locks are held together is pool_mayday_timeout() and it just got decided that way. This nesting order turns out to complicate things with the planned rescuer_thread() update. Let's invert them. This doesn't cause any behavior differences. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Dongsu Park <dongsu.park@profitbricks.com>
2014-12-04workqueue: cosmetic update in rescuer_thread()Tejun Heo
rescuer_thread() caches &rescuer->scheduled in a local variable scheduled for convenience. There's one WARN_ON_ONCE() which was using &rescuer->scheduled directly. Replace it with the local variable. This patch causes no functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-10-06workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macroJoe Lawrence
Tidy up and use cond_resched_rcu_qs when calling cond_resched and reporting potential quiescent state to RCU. Splitting this change in this way allows easy backporting to -stable for kernel versions not having cond_resched_rcu_qs(). Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-06workqueue: Add quiescent state between work itemsJoe Lawrence
Similar to the stop_machine deadlock scenario on !PREEMPT kernels addressed in b22ce2785d97 "workqueue: cond_resched() after processing each work item", kworker threads requeueing back-to-back with zero jiffy delay can stall RCU. The cond_resched call introduced in that fix will yield only iff there are other higher priority tasks to run, so force a quiescent RCU state between work items. Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140926105227.01325697@jlaw-desktop.mno.stratus.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140929115445.40221d8e@jlaw-desktop.mno.stratus.com Fixes: b22ce2785d97 ("workqueue: cond_resched() after processing each work item") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-08-04Merge branch 'for-3.17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo: - Major reorganization of percpu header files which I think makes things a lot more readable and logical than before. - percpu-refcount is updated so that it requires explicit destruction and can be reinitialized if necessary. This was pulled into the block tree to replace the custom percpu refcnting implemented in blk-mq. - In the process, percpu and percpu-refcount got cleaned up a bit * 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (21 commits) percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_reinit() and percpu_ref_is_zero() percpu-refcount: require percpu_ref to be exited explicitly percpu-refcount: use unsigned long for pcpu_count pointer percpu-refcount: add helpers for ->percpu_count accesses percpu-refcount: one bit is enough for REF_STATUS percpu-refcount, aio: use percpu_ref_cancel_init() in ioctx_alloc() workqueue: stronger test in process_one_work() workqueue: clear POOL_DISASSOCIATED in rebind_workers() percpu: Use ALIGN macro instead of hand coding alignment calculation percpu: invoke __verify_pcpu_ptr() from the generic part of accessors and operations percpu: preffity percpu header files percpu: use raw_cpu_*() to define __this_cpu_*() percpu: reorder macros in percpu header files percpu: move {raw|this}_cpu_*() definitions to include/linux/percpu-defs.h percpu: move generic {raw|this}_cpu_*_N() definitions to include/asm-generic/percpu.h percpu: only allow sized arch overrides for {raw|this}_cpu_*() ops percpu: reorganize include/linux/percpu-defs.h percpu: move accessors from include/linux/percpu.h to percpu-defs.h percpu: include/asm-generic/percpu.h should contain only arch-overridable parts percpu: introduce arch_raw_cpu_ptr() ...
2014-08-04Merge branch 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: "Lai has been doing a lot of cleanups of workqueue and kthread_work. No significant behavior change. Just a lot of cleanups all over the place. Some are a bit invasive but overall nothing too dangerous" * 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: kthread_work: remove the unused wait_queue_head kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle workqueue: use nr_node_ids instead of wq_numa_tbl_len workqueue: remove the misnamed out_unlock label in get_unbound_pool() workqueue: remove the stale comment in pwq_unbound_release_workfn() workqueue: move rescuer pool detachment to the end workqueue: unfold start_worker() into create_worker() workqueue: remove @wakeup from worker_set_flags() workqueue: remove an unneeded UNBOUND test before waking up the next worker workqueue: wake regular worker if need_more_worker() when rescuer leave the pool workqueue: alloc struct worker on its local node workqueue: reuse the already calculated pwq in try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: stronger test in process_one_work() workqueue: clear POOL_DISASSOCIATED in rebind_workers() workqueue: sanity check pool->cpu in wq_worker_sleeping() workqueue: clear leftover flags when detached workqueue: remove useless WARN_ON_ONCE() workqueue: use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of open code workqueue: remove the empty check in too_many_workers() workqueue: use "pool->cpu < 0" to stand for an unbound pool