user/sven/linux.git/kernel/workqueue.c, branch v3.0.61

workqueue: convert BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s

2012-12-17T18:49:02Z

commit fc4b514f2727f74a4587c31db87e0e93465518c3 upstream. 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 Cc: Xiaotian Feng Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNING

2012-12-10T18:45:07Z

commit 412d32e6c98527078779e5b515823b2810e40324 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: add missing smp_wmb() in process_one_work()

2012-10-12T20:28:03Z

commit 959d1af8cffc8fd38ed53e8be1cf4ab8782f9c00 upstream. WORK_STRUCT_PENDING is used to claim ownership of a work item and process_one_work() releases it before starting execution. When someone else grabs PENDING, all pre-release updates to the work item should be visible and all updates made by the new owner should happen afterwards. Grabbing PENDING uses test_and_set_bit() and thus has a full barrier; however, clearing doesn't have a matching wmb. Given the preceding spin_unlock and use of clear_bit, I don't believe this can be a problem on an actual machine and there hasn't been any related report but it still is theretically possible for clear_pending to permeate upwards and happen before work->entry update. Add an explicit smp_wmb() before work_clear_pending(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic

2012-10-02T16:47:40Z

commit 96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27 upstream. The compiler may compile the following code into TWO write/modify instructions. worker->flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND; worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND; so the other CPU may temporarily see worker->flags which doesn't have either WORKER_UNBOUND or WORKER_REBIND set and perform local wakeup prematurely. Fix it by using single explicit assignment via ACCESS_ONCE(). Because idle workers have another WORKER_NOT_RUNNING flag, this bug doesn't exist for them; however, update it to use the same pattern for consistency. tj: Applied the change to idle workers too and updated comments and patch description a bit. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq

2012-10-02T16:47:22Z

commit ed48ece27cd3d5ee0354c32bbaec0f3e1d4715c3 upstream. 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 Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Len Brown Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: perform cpu down operations from low priority cpu_notifier()

2012-08-09T15:27:36Z

commit 6575820221f7a4dd6eadecf7bf83cdd154335eda upstream. Currently, all workqueue cpu hotplug operations run off CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE which is higher than normal notifiers. This is to ensure that workqueue is up and running while bringing up a CPU before other notifiers try to use workqueue on the CPU. Per-cpu workqueues are supposed to remain working and bound to the CPU for normal CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers. This holds mostly true even with workqueue offlining running with higher priority because workqueue CPU_DOWN_PREPARE only creates a bound trustee thread which runs the per-cpu workqueue without concurrency management without explicitly detaching the existing workers. However, if the trustee needs to create new workers, it creates unbound workers which may wander off to other CPUs while CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers are in progress. Furthermore, if the CPU down is cancelled, the per-CPU workqueue may end up with workers which aren't bound to the CPU. While reliably reproducible with a convoluted artificial test-case involving scheduling and flushing CPU burning work items from CPU down notifiers, this isn't very likely to happen in the wild, and, even when it happens, the effects are likely to be hidden by the following successful CPU down. Fix it by using different priorities for up and down notifiers - high priority for up operations and low priority for down operations. Workqueue cpu hotplug operations will soon go through further cleanup. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active

2012-06-01T07:12:56Z

commit 544ecf310f0e7f51fa057ac2a295fc1b3b35a9d3 upstream. worker_enter_idle() has WARN_ON_ONCE() which triggers if nr_running isn't zero when every worker is idle. This can trigger spuriously while a cpu is going down due to the way trustee sets %WORKER_ROGUE and zaps nr_running. It first sets %WORKER_ROGUE on all workers without updating nr_running, releases gcwq->lock, schedules, regrabs gcwq->lock and then zaps nr_running. If the last running worker enters idle inbetween, it would see stale nr_running which hasn't been zapped yet and trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE(). Fix it by performing the sanity check iff the trustee is idle. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Block: use a freezable workqueue for disk-event polling

2012-03-19T15:57:59Z

commit 62d3c5439c534b0e6c653fc63e6d8c67be3a57b1 upstream. This patch (as1519) fixes a bug in the block layer's disk-events polling. The polling is done by a work routine queued on the system_nrt_wq workqueue. Since that workqueue isn't freezable, the polling continues even in the middle of a system sleep transition. Obviously, polling a suspended drive for media changes and such isn't a good thing to do; in the case of USB mass-storage devices it can lead to real problems requiring device resets and even re-enumeration. The patch fixes things by creating a new system-wide, non-reentrant, freezable workqueue and using it for disk-events polling. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Acked-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: lock cwq access in drain_workqueue

2011-10-03T18:40:31Z

commit fa2563e41c3d6d6e8af437643981ed28ae0cb56d upstream. Take cwq->gcwq->lock to avoid racing between drain_workqueue checking to make sure the workqueues are empty and cwq_dec_nr_in_flight decrementing and then incrementing nr_active when it activates a delayed work. We discovered this when a corner case in one of our drivers resulted in us trying to destroy a workqueue in which the remaining work would always requeue itself again in the same workqueue. We would hit this race condition and trip the BUG_ON on workqueue.c:3080. Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2011-05-24T18:53:42Z

* 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: Unify input section names percpu: Avoid extra NOP in percpu_cmpxchg16b_double percpu: Cast away printk format warning percpu: Always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE Fix up fairly trivial conflict in arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h as per Tejun