Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.
This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.
This patch adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request the use of
the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release cycle to allow
callers to transition their calls.
Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.
With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.
All existing users have been updated accordingly.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
system_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that
CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make
it clear by adding a system_percpu_wq.
queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() mod_delayed_work() will now use the
new per-cpu wq: whether the user still stick on the old name a warn will
be printed along a wq redirect to the new one.
This patch add the new system_percpu_wq except for mm, fs and net
subsystem, whom are handled in separated patches.
The old wq will be kept for a few release cylces.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.
Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.
queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() / mod_delayed_work() will now use the
new unbound wq: whether the user still use the old wq a warn will be
printed along with a wq redirect to the new one.
The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
While a BH work item is canceled, the core code spins until it
determines that the item completed. On PREEMPT_RT the spinning relies on
a lock in local_bh_disable() to avoid a live lock if the canceling
thread has higher priority than the BH-worker and preempts it. This lock
ensures that the BH-worker makes progress by PI-boosting it.
This lock in local_bh_disable() is a central per-CPU BKL and about to be
removed.
To provide the required synchronisation add a per pool lock. The lock is
acquired by the bh_worker at the begin while the individual callbacks
are invoked. To enforce progress in case of interruption, __flush_work()
needs to acquire the lock.
This will flush all BH-work items assigned to that pool.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The wq_watchdog_timer_fn() is executed in the softirq context, this
is already in the RCU read critical section, this commit therefore
remove rcu_read_lock/unlock() in wq_watchdog_timer_fn().
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The preempt_disable/enable() has already formed RCU read crtical
section, this commit therefore remove rcu_read_lock/unlock() in
workqueue_congested().
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
- Prepare for defaulting to unbound workqueue. A separate branch was
created to ease pulling in from other trees but none of the
conversions have landed yet
- Memory allocation profiling support added
- Misc changes
* tag 'wq-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed() in tryinc_node_nr_active()
workqueue: Remove unused work_on_cpu_safe
workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag
workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq
workqueue: Basic memory allocation profiling support
workqueue: fix opencoded cpumask_next_and_wrap() in wq_select_unbound_cpu()
The last use of the work_on_cpu_safe() macro was removed recently by
commit 9cda46babd ("crypto: n2 - remove Niagara2 SPU driver")
Remove it, and the work_on_cpu_safe_key() function it calls.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Now when isolcpus is enabled via the cmdline, wq_isolated_cpumask does
not include these isolated CPUs, even wq_unbound_cpumask has already
excluded them. It is only when we successfully configure an isolate cpuset
partition that wq_isolated_cpumask gets overwritten by
workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask(), including both the cmdline-specified
isolated CPUs and the isolated CPUs within the cpuset partitions.
Fix this issue by initializing wq_isolated_cpumask properly in
workqueue_init_early().
Fixes: fe28f631fa ("workqueue: Add workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask() to exclude CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Chuyi Zhou <zhouchuyi@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently, if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
system_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that
CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make it
clear by adding a system_percpu_wq.
system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.
Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Hook alloc_workqueue and alloc_workqueue_attrs() so that they're
accounted to the callsite. Since we're doing allocations on behalf of
another subsystem, this helps when using memory allocation profiling to
check for leaks.
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The dedicated helper is more verbose and effective comparing to
cpumask_first() followed by cpumask_next().
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov [NVIDIA] <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Fix statistic update race condition and a couple documentation
updates"
* tag 'wq-for-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix typo in comment
workqueue: Fix race condition in wq->stats incrementation
workqueue: Better document teardown for delayed_work
destroy_workqueue() does not ensure that non-pending work submitted with
queue_delayed_work() gets cancelled. The caller has to ensure that
manually.
Add this information about delayed_work in destroy_workqueue()'s
docstring.
Add a TODO for destroy_workqueue() to wait for all delayed_work.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Stanner <phasta@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.
Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull workqueue update from Tejun Heo:
"This contains a patch improve debug visibility.
While it isn't a fix, the change carries virtually no risk and makes
it substantially easier to chase down a class of problems"
* tag 'wq-for-6.14-rc4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Log additional details when rejecting work
Pull workqueue fix from Tejun Heo:
- Fix a regression where a worker pool can be freed before rescuer
workers are done with it leading to user-after-free
* tag 'wq-for-6.14-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Put the pwq after detaching the rescuer from the pool
Syzbot regularly runs into the following warning on arm64:
| WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6023 at kernel/workqueue.c:2257 current_wq_worker kernel/workqueue_internal.h:69 [inline]
| WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6023 at kernel/workqueue.c:2257 is_chained_work kernel/workqueue.c:2199 [inline]
| WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6023 at kernel/workqueue.c:2257 __queue_work+0xe50/0x1308 kernel/workqueue.c:2256
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6023 Comm: klogd Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-syzkaller-g2e7aff49b5da #0
| Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
| pstate: 404000c5 (nZcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : __queue_work+0xe50/0x1308 kernel/workqueue_internal.h:69
| lr : current_wq_worker kernel/workqueue_internal.h:69 [inline]
| lr : is_chained_work kernel/workqueue.c:2199 [inline]
| lr : __queue_work+0xe50/0x1308 kernel/workqueue.c:2256
[...]
| __queue_work+0xe50/0x1308 kernel/workqueue.c:2256 (L)
| delayed_work_timer_fn+0x74/0x90 kernel/workqueue.c:2485
| call_timer_fn+0x1b4/0x8b8 kernel/time/timer.c:1793
| expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1839 [inline]
| __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2418 [inline]
| __run_timer_base+0x59c/0x7b4 kernel/time/timer.c:2430
| run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2439 [inline]
| run_timer_softirq+0xcc/0x194 kernel/time/timer.c:2449
The warning is probably because we are trying to queue work into a
destroyed workqueue, but the softirq context makes it hard to pinpoint
the problematic caller.
Extend the warning diagnostics to print both the function we are trying
to queue as well as the name of the workqueue.
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e13e654d315d4da1277c
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.
- "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
refcount inc & dec
- "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
use large folios other than PMD-sized ones
- "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest
- "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
of the mapletree code
- "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
few minor code cleanups
- "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
a test for the mapletree code
- "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
(relatively) new mm/vma.c
- "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
page allocator
- "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading
- "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
accumulated:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
- "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
code when optional compiler warnings are enabled
- "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
__GFP_HARDWALL
- "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
pertaining to the pkeys tests
- "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
estimate application working set size
- "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic
- "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated
- "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated
- "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
use-after-free race is fixed
- "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
logic
- "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
improvements in accounting accuracy
- "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
DAMON's sysfs file interface logic
- "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
presented in response to DAMOS actions
- "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
migration to sysfs is completed
- "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
accounting
- "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface
- "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
but also inclusion (allowing) behavior
- "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
memory descriptors
- "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
build time with swap-on-zram
- "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
mmap_region() can be made MM-internal
- "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance
- "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
Park updates DAMON documentation
- "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing
- "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
folios, THP folios and migration
- "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
reading/writing fast devices
- "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
...
The commit 68f83057b913("workqueue: Reap workers via kthread_stop() and
remove detach_completion") adds code to reap the normal workers but
mistakenly does not handle the rescuer and also removes the code waiting
for the rescuer in put_unbound_pool(), which caused a use-after-free bug
reported by Cheung Wall.
To avoid the use-after-free bug, the pool’s reference must be held until
the detachment is complete. Therefore, move the code that puts the pwq
after detaching the rescuer from the pool.
Reported-by: cheung wall <zzqq0103.hey@gmail.com>
Cc: cheung wall <zzqq0103.hey@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKHoSAvP3iQW+GwmKzWjEAOoPvzeWeoMO0Gz7Pp3_4kxt-RMoA@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 68f83057b913("workqueue: Reap workers via kthread_stop() and remove detach_completion")
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
