user/sven/linux.git/kernel/workqueue.c, branch v4.0

workqueue: fix hang involving racing cancel[_delayed]_work_sync()'s for PREEMPT_NONE

2015-03-05T13:04:13Z

cancel[_delayed]_work_sync() are implemented using __cancel_work_timer() which grabs the PENDING bit using try_to_grab_pending() and then flushes the work item with PENDING set to prevent the on-going execution of the work item from requeueing itself. try_to_grab_pending() can always grab PENDING bit without blocking except when someone else is doing the above flushing during cancelation. In that case, try_to_grab_pending() returns -ENOENT. In this case, __cancel_work_timer() currently invokes flush_work(). The assumption is that the completion of the work item is what the other canceling task would be waiting for too and thus waiting for the same condition and retrying should allow forward progress without excessive busy looping Unfortunately, this doesn't work if preemption is disabled or the latter task has real time priority. Let's say task A just got woken up from flush_work() by the completion of the target work item. If, before task A starts executing, task B gets scheduled and invokes __cancel_work_timer() on the same work item, its try_to_grab_pending() will return -ENOENT as the work item is still being canceled by task A and flush_work() will also immediately return false as the work item is no longer executing. This puts task B in a busy loop possibly preventing task A from executing and clearing the canceling state on the work item leading to a hang. task A task B worker executing work __cancel_work_timer() try_to_grab_pending() set work CANCELING flush_work() block for work completion completion, wakes up A __cancel_work_timer() while (forever) { try_to_grab_pending() -ENOENT as work is being canceled flush_work() false as work is no longer executing } This patch removes the possible hang by updating __cancel_work_timer() to explicitly wait for clearing of CANCELING rather than invoking flush_work() after try_to_grab_pending() fails with -ENOENT. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150206171156.GA8942@axis.com v3: bit_waitqueue() can't be used for work items defined in vmalloc area. Switched to custom wake function which matches the target work item and exclusive wait and wakeup. v2: v1 used wake_up() on bit_waitqueue() which leads to NULL deref if the target bit waitqueue has wait_bit_queue's on it. Use DEFINE_WAIT_BIT() and __wake_up_bit() instead. Reported by Tomeu Vizoso. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Rabin Vincent Cc: Tomeu Vizoso Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Jesper Nilsson Tested-by: Rabin Vincent

workqueue: use %*pb[l] to format bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks

2015-02-14T05:21:37Z

printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'. cpumask and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_args() respectively which can be used to generate the two printf arguments necessary to format the specified cpu/nodemask. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

workqueue: fix subtle pool management issue which can stall whole worker_pool

2015-01-16T19:21:16Z

A worker_pool's forward progress is guaranteed by the fact that the last idle worker assumes the manager role to create more workers and summon the rescuers if creating workers doesn't succeed in timely manner before proceeding to execute work items. This manager role is implemented in manage_workers(), which indicates whether the worker may proceed to work item execution with its return value. This is necessary because multiple workers may contend for the manager role, and, if there already is a manager, others should proceed to work item execution. Unfortunately, the function also indicates that the worker may proceed to work item execution if need_to_create_worker() is false at the head of the function. need_to_create_worker() tests the following conditions. pending work items && !nr_running && !nr_idle The first and third conditions are protected by pool->lock and thus won't change while holding pool->lock; however, nr_running can change asynchronously as other workers block and resume and while it's likely to be zero, as someone woke this worker up in the first place, some other workers could have become runnable inbetween making it non-zero. If this happens, manage_worker() could return false even with zero nr_idle making the worker, the last idle one, proceed to execute work items. If then all workers of the pool end up blocking on a resource which can only be released by a work item which is pending on that pool, the whole pool can deadlock as there's no one to create more workers or summon the rescuers. This patch fixes the problem by removing the early exit condition from maybe_create_worker() and making manage_workers() return false iff there's already another manager, which ensures that the last worker doesn't start executing work items. We can leave the early exit condition alone and just ignore the return value but the only reason it was put there is because the manage_workers() used to perform both creations and destructions of workers and thus the function may be invoked while the pool is trying to reduce the number of workers. Now that manage_workers() is called only when more workers are needed, the only case this early exit condition is triggered is rare race conditions rendering it pointless. Tested with simulated workload and modified workqueue code which trigger the pool deadlock reliably without this patch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Eric Sandeen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/54B019F4.8030009@sandeen.net Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

workqueue: allow rescuer thread to do more work.

2014-12-08T17:39:16Z

When there is serious memory pressure, all workers in a pool could be blocked, and a new thread cannot be created because it requires memory allocation. In this situation a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue will wake up the rescuer thread to do some work. The rescuer will only handle requests that are already on ->worklist. If max_requests is 1, that means it will handle a single request. The rescuer will be woken again in 100ms to handle another max_requests requests. I've seen a machine (running a 3.0 based "enterprise" kernel) with thousands of requests queued for xfslogd, which has a max_requests of 1, and is needed for retiring all 'xfs' write requests. When one of the worker pools gets into this state, it progresses extremely slowly and possibly never recovers (only waited an hour or two). With this patch we leave a pool_workqueue on mayday list until it is clearly no longer in need of assistance. This allows all requests to be handled in a timely fashion. We keep each pool_workqueue on the mayday list until need_to_create_worker() is false, and no work for this workqueue is found in the pool. I have tested this in combination with a (hackish) patch which forces all work items to be handled by the rescuer thread. In that context it significantly improves performance. A similar patch for a 3.0 kernel significantly improved performance on a heavy work load. Thanks to Jan Kara for some design ideas, and to Dongsu Park for some comments and testing. tj: Inverted the lock order between wq_mayday_lock and pool->lock with a preceding patch and simplified this patch. Added comment and updated changelog accordingly. Dongsu spotted missing get_pwq() in the simplified code. Cc: Dongsu Park Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

workqueue: invert the order between pool->lock and wq_mayday_lock

2014-12-08T17:39:16Z

Currently, pool->lock nests inside pool->lock. There's no inherent reason for this order. The only place where the two locks are held together is pool_mayday_timeout() and it just got decided that way. This nesting order turns out to complicate things with the planned rescuer_thread() update. Let's invert them. This doesn't cause any behavior differences. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan Cc: NeilBrown Cc: Dongsu Park

workqueue: cosmetic update in rescuer_thread()

2014-12-04T15:14:54Z

rescuer_thread() caches &rescuer->scheduled in a local variable scheduled for convenience. There's one WARN_ON_ONCE() which was using &rescuer->scheduled directly. Replace it with the local variable. This patch causes no functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro

2014-10-06T12:58:26Z

Tidy up and use cond_resched_rcu_qs when calling cond_resched and reporting potential quiescent state to RCU. Splitting this change in this way allows easy backporting to -stable for kernel versions not having cond_resched_rcu_qs(). Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

workqueue: Add quiescent state between work items

2014-10-06T12:57:43Z

Similar to the stop_machine deadlock scenario on !PREEMPT kernels addressed in b22ce2785d97 "workqueue: cond_resched() after processing each work item", kworker threads requeueing back-to-back with zero jiffy delay can stall RCU. The cond_resched call introduced in that fix will yield only iff there are other higher priority tasks to run, so force a quiescent RCU state between work items. Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140926105227.01325697@jlaw-desktop.mno.stratus.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140929115445.40221d8e@jlaw-desktop.mno.stratus.com Fixes: b22ce2785d97 ("workqueue: cond_resched() after processing each work item") Cc: Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge branch 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2014-08-04T17:09:27Z

Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo: - Major reorganization of percpu header files which I think makes things a lot more readable and logical than before. - percpu-refcount is updated so that it requires explicit destruction and can be reinitialized if necessary. This was pulled into the block tree to replace the custom percpu refcnting implemented in blk-mq. - In the process, percpu and percpu-refcount got cleaned up a bit * 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (21 commits) percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_reinit() and percpu_ref_is_zero() percpu-refcount: require percpu_ref to be exited explicitly percpu-refcount: use unsigned long for pcpu_count pointer percpu-refcount: add helpers for ->percpu_count accesses percpu-refcount: one bit is enough for REF_STATUS percpu-refcount, aio: use percpu_ref_cancel_init() in ioctx_alloc() workqueue: stronger test in process_one_work() workqueue: clear POOL_DISASSOCIATED in rebind_workers() percpu: Use ALIGN macro instead of hand coding alignment calculation percpu: invoke __verify_pcpu_ptr() from the generic part of accessors and operations percpu: preffity percpu header files percpu: use raw_cpu_*() to define __this_cpu_*() percpu: reorder macros in percpu header files percpu: move {raw|this}_cpu_*() definitions to include/linux/percpu-defs.h percpu: move generic {raw|this}_cpu_*_N() definitions to include/asm-generic/percpu.h percpu: only allow sized arch overrides for {raw|this}_cpu_*() ops percpu: reorganize include/linux/percpu-defs.h percpu: move accessors from include/linux/percpu.h to percpu-defs.h percpu: include/asm-generic/percpu.h should contain only arch-overridable parts percpu: introduce arch_raw_cpu_ptr() ...

Merge branch 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2014-08-04T17:04:44Z

Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo: "Lai has been doing a lot of cleanups of workqueue and kthread_work. No significant behavior change. Just a lot of cleanups all over the place. Some are a bit invasive but overall nothing too dangerous" * 'for-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: kthread_work: remove the unused wait_queue_head kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle workqueue: use nr_node_ids instead of wq_numa_tbl_len workqueue: remove the misnamed out_unlock label in get_unbound_pool() workqueue: remove the stale comment in pwq_unbound_release_workfn() workqueue: move rescuer pool detachment to the end workqueue: unfold start_worker() into create_worker() workqueue: remove @wakeup from worker_set_flags() workqueue: remove an unneeded UNBOUND test before waking up the next worker workqueue: wake regular worker if need_more_worker() when rescuer leave the pool workqueue: alloc struct worker on its local node workqueue: reuse the already calculated pwq in try_to_grab_pending() workqueue: stronger test in process_one_work() workqueue: clear POOL_DISASSOCIATED in rebind_workers() workqueue: sanity check pool->cpu in wq_worker_sleeping() workqueue: clear leftover flags when detached workqueue: remove useless WARN_ON_ONCE() workqueue: use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of open code workqueue: remove the empty check in too_many_workers() workqueue: use "pool->cpu < 0" to stand for an unbound pool