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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
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>
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()
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>
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>
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>
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>
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
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>
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()
...
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>
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>
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>
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
@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>
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
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>
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>
