linux/kernel/workqueue.c, branch v3.11

workqueue: cond_resched() after processing each work item

2013-08-29T13:19:28Z

If !PREEMPT, a kworker running work items back to back can hog CPU. This becomes dangerous when a self-requeueing work item which is waiting for something to happen races against stop_machine. Such self-requeueing work item would requeue itself indefinitely hogging the kworker and CPU it's running on while stop_machine would wait for that CPU to enter stop_machine while preventing anything else from happening on all other CPUs. The two would deadlock. Jamie Liu reports that this deadlock scenario exists around scsi_requeue_run_queue() and libata port multiplier support, where one port may exclude command processing from other ports. With the right timing, scsi_requeue_run_queue() can end up requeueing itself trying to execute an IO which is asked to be retried while another device has an exclusive access, which in turn can't make forward progress due to stop_machine. Fix it by invoking cond_resched() after executing each work item. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Jamie Liu References: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1552567 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org -- kernel/workqueue.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

Merge branch 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2013-08-06T20:58:34Z

Pull two workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo: "A lockdep notation update so that nested work_on_cpu() invocations don't lead to spurious lockdep warnings and fix for an unbound attr bug which made what's shown in sysfs deviate from the actual ones. Both patches have pretty limited scope" * 'for-3.11-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: copy workqueue_attrs with all fields workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively

workqueue: copy workqueue_attrs with all fields

2013-08-01T12:36:40Z

$echo '0' > /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/xxx/numa $cat /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/xxx/numa I got 1. It should be 0, the reason is copy_workqueue_attrs() called in apply_workqueue_attrs() doesn't copy no_numa field. Fix it by making copy_workqueue_attrs() copy ->no_numa too. This would also make get_unbound_pool() set a pool's ->no_numa attribute according to the workqueue attributes used when the pool was created. While harmelss, as ->no_numa isn't a pool attribute, this is a bit confusing. Clear it explicitly. tj: Updated description and comments a bit. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively

2013-07-24T16:24:25Z

If the @fn call work_on_cpu() again, the lockdep will complain: > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > 3.11.0-rc1-lockdep-fix-a #6 Not tainted > --------------------------------------------- > kworker/0:1/142 is trying to acquire lock: > ((&wfc.work)){+.+.+.}, at: [] flush_work+0x0/0xb0 > > but task is already holding lock: > ((&wfc.work)){+.+.+.}, at: [] process_one_work+0x169/0x610 > > other info that might help us debug this: > Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > CPU0 > ---- > lock((&wfc.work)); > lock((&wfc.work)); > > *** DEADLOCK *** It is false-positive lockdep report. In this sutiation, the two "wfc"s of the two work_on_cpu() are different, they are both on stack. flush_work() can't be deadlock. To fix this, we need to avoid the lockdep checking in this case, thus we instroduce a internal __flush_work() which skip the lockdep. tj: Minor comment adjustment. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Reported-by: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Reported-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files

2013-07-14T23:36:59Z

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2013-07-03T02:53:30Z

Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up changes necessary at this point. The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot param whose default can be configured via a config option. This leads to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh. This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions less effective. Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes." * 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq block: queue work on power efficient wq PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues

workqueue: don't perform NUMA-aware allocations on offline nodes in wq_numa_init()

2013-05-15T21:24:24Z

wq_numa_init() builds per-node cpumasks which are later used to make unbound workqueues NUMA-aware. The cpumasks are allocated using alloc_cpumask_var_node() for all possible nodes. Unfortunately, on machines with off-line nodes, this leads to NUMA-aware allocations on existing bug offline nodes, which in turn triggers BUG in the memory allocation code. Fix it by using NUMA_NO_NODE for cpumask allocations for offline nodes. kernel BUG at include/linux/gfp.h:323! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0+ #1 Hardware name: ProLiant BL465c G7, BIOS A19 12/10/2011 task: ffff880234608000 ti: ffff880234602000 task.ti: ffff880234602000 RIP: 0010:[] [] new_slab+0x2ad/0x340 RSP: 0000:ffff880234603bf8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880237404b40 RCX: 00000000000000d0 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 00000000002052d0 RBP: ffff880234603c28 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffffff812e3aa8 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: ffff8802378161c0 R14: 0000000000030027 R15: 00000000000040d0 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880237800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff88043fdff000 CR3: 00000000018d5000 CR4: 00000000000007f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Stack: ffff880234603c28 0000000000000001 00000000000000d0 ffff8802378161c0 ffff880237404b40 ffff880237404b40 ffff880234603d28 ffffffff815edba1 ffff880237816140 0000000000000000 ffff88023740e1c0 Call Trace: [] __slab_alloc+0x330/0x4f2 [] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xa5/0x200 [] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x28/0x90 [] wq_numa_init+0x10d/0x1be [] init_workqueues+0x64/0x341 [] do_one_initcall+0xea/0x1a0 [] kernel_init_freeable+0xb7/0x1ec [] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0 [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 Code: 45 84 ac 00 00 00 f0 41 80 4d 00 40 e9 f6 fe ff ff 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 e8 eb 4b ff ff 49 89 c5 e9 05 fe ff ff <0f> 0b 4c 8b 73 38 44 89 ff 81 cf 00 00 20 00 4c 89 f6 48 c1 ee Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-and-Tested-by: Lingzhu Xiang

workqueue: Make schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules

2013-05-14T18:52:51Z

Commit 8425e3d5bdbe ("workqueue: inline trivial wrappers") changed schedule_work() and schedule_delayed_work() to inline wrappers, but these rely on some symbols that are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, while the original functions were EXPORT_SYMBOL. This has the effect of changing the licensing requirement for these functions and making them unavailable to non GPL modules. Make them available again by removing the restriction on the required symbols. Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

workqueue: correct handling of the pool spin_lock

2013-05-14T18:48:15Z

When we fail to mutex_trylock(), we release the pool spin_lock and do mutex_lock(). After that, we should regrab the pool spin_lock, but, regrabbing is missed in current code. So correct it. Cc: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues

2013-05-14T17:50:06Z

This patch adds system wide workqueues aligned towards power saving. This is done by allocating them with WQ_UNBOUND flag if 'wq_power_efficient' is set to 'true'. tj: updated comments a bit. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo