user/sven/linux.git/kernel/workqueue.c, branch v3.8-rc2

Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2012-12-12T16:15:13Z

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()

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

2012-12-04T15:58:47Z

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

workqueue: add WARN_ON_ONCE() on CPU number to wq_worker_waking_up()

2012-12-02T00:45:45Z

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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

workqueue: trivial fix for return statement in work_busy()

2012-12-02T00:45:40Z

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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on 0 delay

2012-12-02T00:43:18Z

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 Reported-and-tested-by: Anders Kaseorg Reported-and-tested-by: Zlatko Calusic LKML-Reference: LKML-Reference: <50A78AA9.5040904@iskon.hr> Cc: Joonsoo Kim

workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNING

2012-12-01T23:56:42Z

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 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %false if work item is idle

2012-10-24T19:38:16Z

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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo LKML-Reference: <444a6439-b1a4-4740-9e7e-bc37267cfe73@default>

Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2012-10-02T16:54:49Z

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() ...

workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()

2012-09-20T17:03:19Z

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 Reported-by: Fengguang Wu

workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()

2012-09-19T17:40:48Z

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 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo