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Tejun Heo
ec22ca5eab workqueue: move global_cwq->cpu to worker_pool
Move gcwq->cpu to pool->cpu.  This introduces a couple places where
gcwq->pools[0].cpu is used.  These will soon go away as gcwq is
further reduced.

This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool
the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker
pools with user-specified attributes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:33 -08:00
Tejun Heo
c9e7cf273f workqueue: move busy_hash from global_cwq to worker_pool
There's no functional necessity for the two pools on the same CPU to
share the busy hash table.  It's also likely to be a bottleneck when
implementing pools with user-specified attributes.

This patch makes busy_hash per-pool.  The conversion is mostly
straight-forward.  Changes worth noting are,

* Large block of changes in rebind_workers() is moving the block
  inside for_each_worker_pool() as now there are separate hash tables
  for each pool.  This changes the order of operations but doesn't
  break anything.

* Thre for_each_worker_pool() loops in gcwq_unbind_fn() are combined
  into one.  This again changes the order of operaitons but doesn't
  break anything.

This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool
the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker
pools with user-specified attributes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:33 -08:00
Tejun Heo
7c3eed5cd6 workqueue: record pool ID instead of CPU in work->data when off-queue
Currently, when a work item is off-queue, work->data records the CPU
it was last on, which is used to locate the last executing instance
for non-reentrance, flushing, etc.

We're in the process of removing global_cwq and making worker_pool the
top level abstraction.  This patch makes work->data point to the pool
it was last associated with instead of CPU.

After the previous WORK_OFFQ_POOL_CPU and worker_poo->id additions,
the conversion is fairly straight-forward.  WORK_OFFQ constants and
functions are modified to record and read back pool ID instead.
worker_pool_by_id() is added to allow looking up pool from ID.
get_work_pool() replaces get_work_gcwq(), which is reimplemented using
get_work_pool().  get_work_pool_id() replaces work_cpu().

This patch shouldn't introduce any observable behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:33 -08:00
Tejun Heo
9daf9e678d workqueue: add worker_pool->id
Add worker_pool->id which is allocated from worker_pool_idr.  This
will be used to record the last associated worker_pool in work->data.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:33 -08:00
Tejun Heo
715b06b864 workqueue: introduce WORK_OFFQ_CPU_NONE
Currently, when a work item is off queue, high bits of its data
encodes the last CPU it was on.  This is scheduled to be changed to
pool ID, which will make it impossible to use WORK_CPU_NONE to
indicate no association.

This patch limits the number of bits which are used for off-queue cpu
number to 31 (so that the max fits in an int) and uses the highest
possible value - WORK_OFFQ_CPU_NONE - to indicate no association.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:33 -08:00
Tejun Heo
35b6bb63b8 workqueue: make GCWQ_FREEZING a pool flag
Make GCWQ_FREEZING a pool flag POOL_FREEZING.  This patch doesn't
change locking - FREEZING on both pools of a CPU are set or clear
together while holding gcwq->lock.  It shouldn't cause any functional
difference.

This leaves gcwq->flags w/o any flags.  Removed.

While at it, convert BUG_ON()s in freeze_workqueue_begin() and
thaw_workqueues() to WARN_ON_ONCE().

This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool
the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker
pools with user-specified attributes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:33 -08:00
Tejun Heo
2464757086 workqueue: make GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED a pool flag
Make GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED a pool flag POOL_DISASSOCIATED.  This patch
doesn't change locking - DISASSOCIATED on both pools of a CPU are set
or clear together while holding gcwq->lock.  It shouldn't cause any
functional difference.

This is part of an effort to remove global_cwq and make worker_pool
the top level abstraction, which in turn will help implementing worker
pools with user-specified attributes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:33 -08:00
Tejun Heo
e34cdddb03 workqueue: use std_ prefix for the standard per-cpu pools
There are currently two worker pools per cpu (including the unbound
cpu) and they are the only pools in use.  New class of pools are
scheduled to be added and some pool related APIs will be added
inbetween.  Call the existing pools the standard pools and prefix them
with std_.  Do this early so that new APIs can use std_ prefix from
the beginning.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:33 -08:00
Tejun Heo
e2905b2912 workqueue: unexport work_cpu()
This function no longer has any external users.  Unexport it.  It will
be removed later on.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2013-01-24 11:01:32 -08:00
Tejun Heo
2eaebdb33e workqueue: move struct worker definition to workqueue_internal.h
This will be used to implement an inline function to query whether
%current is a workqueue worker and, if so, allow determining which
work item it's executing.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-18 14:05:55 -08:00
Tejun Heo
ea138446e5 workqueue: rename kernel/workqueue_sched.h to kernel/workqueue_internal.h
Workqueue wants to expose more interface internal to kernel/.  Instead
of adding a new header file, repurpose kernel/workqueue_sched.h.
Rename it to workqueue_internal.h and add include protector.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2013-01-18 14:05:55 -08:00
Tejun Heo
111c225a5f workqueue: set PF_WQ_WORKER on rescuers
PF_WQ_WORKER is used to tell scheduler that the task is a workqueue
worker and needs wq_worker_sleeping/waking_up() invoked on it for
concurrency management.  As rescuers never participate in concurrency
management, PF_WQ_WORKER wasn't set on them.

There's a need for an interface which can query whether %current is
executing a work item and if so which.  Such interface requires a way
to identify all tasks which may execute work items and PF_WQ_WORKER
will be used for that.  As all normal workers always have PF_WQ_WORKER
set, we only need to add it to rescuers.

As rescuers start with WORKER_PREP but never clear it, it's always
NOT_RUNNING and there's no need to worry about it interfering with
concurrency management even if PF_WQ_WORKER is set; however, unlike
normal workers, rescuers currently don't have its worker struct as
kthread_data().  It uses the associated workqueue_struct instead.
This is problematic as wq_worker_sleeping/waking_up() expect struct
worker at kthread_data().

This patch adds worker->rescue_wq and start rescuer kthreads with
worker struct as kthread_data and sets PF_WQ_WORKER on rescuers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-17 17:19:58 -08:00
Tejun Heo
023f27d3d6 workqueue: fix find_worker_executing_work() brekage from hashtable conversion
42f8570f43 ("workqueue: use new hashtable implementation") incorrectly
made busy workers hashed by the pointer value of worker instead of
work.  This broke find_worker_executing_work() which in turn broke a
lot of fundamental operations of workqueue - non-reentrancy and
flushing among others.  The flush malfunction triggered warning in
disk event code in Fengguang's automated test.

 write_dev_root_ (3265) used greatest stack depth: 2704 bytes left
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/block/genhd.c:1574 disk_clear_events+0x\
cf/0x108()
 Hardware name: Bochs
 Modules linked in:
 Pid: 3328, comm: ata_id Not tainted 3.7.0-01930-gbff6343 #1167
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff810997c4>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9c
  [<ffffffff810997f7>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
  [<ffffffff816aea77>] disk_clear_events+0xcf/0x108
  [<ffffffff811bd8be>] check_disk_change+0x27/0x59
  [<ffffffff822e48e2>] cdrom_open+0x49/0x68b
  [<ffffffff81ab0291>] idecd_open+0x88/0xb7
  [<ffffffff811be58f>] __blkdev_get+0x102/0x3ec
  [<ffffffff811bea08>] blkdev_get+0x18f/0x30f
  [<ffffffff811bebfd>] blkdev_open+0x75/0x80
  [<ffffffff8118f510>] do_dentry_open+0x1ea/0x295
  [<ffffffff8118f5f0>] finish_open+0x35/0x41
  [<ffffffff8119c720>] do_last+0x878/0xa25
  [<ffffffff8119c993>] path_openat+0xc6/0x333
  [<ffffffff8119cf37>] do_filp_open+0x38/0x86
  [<ffffffff81190170>] do_sys_open+0x6c/0xf9
  [<ffffffff8119021e>] sys_open+0x21/0x23
  [<ffffffff82c1c3d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2012-12-19 11:24:06 -08:00
Tejun Heo
a2c1c57be8 workqueue: consider work function when searching for busy work items
To avoid executing the same work item concurrenlty, workqueue hashes
currently busy workers according to their current work items and looks
up the the table when it wants to execute a new work item.  If there
already is a worker which is executing the new work item, the new item
is queued to the found worker so that it gets executed only after the
current execution finishes.

Unfortunately, a work item may be freed while being executed and thus
recycled for different purposes.  If it gets recycled for a different
work item and queued while the previous execution is still in
progress, workqueue may make the new work item wait for the old one
although the two aren't really related in any way.

In extreme cases, this false dependency may lead to deadlock although
it's extremely unlikely given that there aren't too many self-freeing
work item users and they usually don't wait for other work items.

To alleviate the problem, record the current work function in each
busy worker and match it together with the work item address in
find_worker_executing_work().  While this isn't complete, it ensures
that unrelated work items don't interact with each other and in the
very unlikely case where a twisted wq user triggers it, it's always
onto itself making the culprit easy to spot.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Andrey Isakov <andy51@gmx.ru>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51701
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-12-18 10:56:14 -08:00
Sasha Levin
42f8570f43 workqueue: use new hashtable implementation
Switch workqueues to use the new hashtable implementation. This reduces the
amount of generic unrelated code in the workqueues.

This patch depends on d9b482c ("hashtable: introduce a small and naive
hashtable") which was merged in v3.6.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-12-18 09:21:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e7b55b8fcd Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
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()
2012-12-12 08:15:13 -08:00
Tejun Heo
fc4b514f27 workqueue: convert BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
2012-12-04 07:58:47 -08:00
Joonsoo Kim
3657600040 workqueue: add WARN_ON_ONCE() on CPU number to wq_worker_waking_up()
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 <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-12-01 16:45:45 -08:00
Joonsoo Kim
999767beb1 workqueue: trivial fix for return statement in work_busy()
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 <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-12-01 16:45:40 -08:00
Tejun Heo
8852aac25e workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on 0 delay
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
Reported-and-tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211280953350.26602@dr-wily.mit.edu>
LKML-Reference: <50A78AA9.5040904@iskon.hr>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
2012-12-01 16:43:18 -08:00
Mike Galbraith
412d32e6c9 workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNING
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 <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-12-01 15:56:42 -08:00
Dan Magenheimer
c0158ca64d workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %false if work item is idle
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 <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <444a6439-b1a4-4740-9e7e-bc37267cfe73@default>
2012-10-24 12:38:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
033d9959ed Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
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()
  ...
2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
Tejun Heo
7c6e72e46c workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-09-20 10:03:19 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
70369b117a workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
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 <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-19 10:40:48 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
9f4bd4cddb workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
Using a helper instead of open code makes thaw_workqueues() clearer.
The helper will also be used by the next patch.

tj: Slight update to comment and description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-19 10:40:48 -07:00
Tejun Heo
ed48ece27c workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-09-19 10:13:12 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
b3f9f405a2 workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
@delayed is now always false for all callers, remove it.

tj: Updated description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-18 10:40:00 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
3aa6249759 workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
Currently, when try_to_grab_pending() grabs a delayed work item, it
leaves its linked work items alone on the delayed_works.  The linked
work items are always NO_COLOR and will cause future
cwq_activate_first_delayed() increase cwq->nr_active incorrectly, and
may cause the whole cwq to stall.  For example,

state: cwq->max_active = 1, cwq->nr_active = 1
       one work in cwq->pool, many in cwq->delayed_works.

step1: try_to_grab_pending() removes a work item from delayed_works
       but leaves its NO_COLOR linked work items on it.

step2: Later on, cwq_activate_first_delayed() activates the linked
       work item increasing ->nr_active.

step3: cwq->nr_active = 1, but all activated work items of the cwq are
       NO_COLOR.  When they finish, cwq->nr_active will not be
       decreased due to NO_COLOR, and no further work items will be
       activated from cwq->delayed_works. the cwq stalls.

Fix it by ensuring the target work item is activated before stealing
PENDING in try_to_grab_pending().  This ensures that all the linked
work items are activated without incorrectly bumping cwq->nr_active.

tj: Updated comment and description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2012-09-18 10:40:00 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
a5b4e57d7c workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
workqueue_cpu_down_callback() is used only if HOTPLUG_CPU=y, so
hotcpu_notifier() fits better than cpu_notifier().

When HOTPLUG_CPU=y, hotcpu_notifier() and cpu_notifier() are the same.

When HOTPLUG_CPU=n, if we use cpu_notifier(),
workqueue_cpu_down_callback() will be called during boot to do
nothing, and the memory of workqueue_cpu_down_callback() and
gcwq_unbind_fn() will be discarded after boot.

If we use hotcpu_notifier(), we can avoid the no-op call of
workqueue_cpu_down_callback() and the memory of
workqueue_cpu_down_callback() and gcwq_unbind_fn() will be discard at
build time:

$ ls -l kernel/workqueue.o.cpu_notifier kernel/workqueue.o.hotcpu_notifier
-rw-rw-r-- 1 laijs laijs 484080 Sep 15 11:31 kernel/workqueue.o.cpu_notifier
-rw-rw-r-- 1 laijs laijs 478240 Sep 15 11:31 kernel/workqueue.o.hotcpu_notifier

$ size kernel/workqueue.o.cpu_notifier kernel/workqueue.o.hotcpu_notifier
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  18513	   2387	   1221	  22121	   5669	kernel/workqueue.o.cpu_notifier
  18082	   2355	   1221	  21658	   549a	kernel/workqueue.o.hotcpu_notifier

tj: Updated description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-18 09:59:23 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
9fdf9b73d6 workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
For workqueue hotplug callbacks, it makes less sense to use __devinit
which discards the memory after boot if !HOTPLUG.  __cpuinit, which
discards the memory after boot if !HOTPLUG_CPU fits better.

tj: Updated description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-18 09:59:23 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
b2eb83d123 workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
Now that manager_mutex's role has changed from synchronizing manager
role to excluding hotplug against manager, the name is misleading.

As it is protecting the CPU-association of the gcwq now, rename it to
assoc_mutex.

This patch is pure rename and doesn't introduce any functional change.

tj: Updated comments and description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-18 09:59:23 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
5f7dabfd5c workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
Now both worker destruction and idle rebinding remove the worker from
idle list while it's still idle, so list_empty(&worker->entry) can be
used to test whether either is pending and WORKER_DIE to distinguish
between the two instead making WORKER_REBIND unnecessary.

Use list_empty(&worker->entry) to determine whether destruction or
rebinding is pending.  This simplifies worker state transitions.

WORKER_REBIND is not needed anymore.  Remove it.

tj: Updated comments and description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-18 09:59:23 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
eab6d82843 workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
Because the old unbind/rebinding implementation wasn't atomic w.r.t.
GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED manipulation which is protected by
global_cwq->lock, we had to use two flags, WORKER_UNBOUND and
WORKER_REBIND, to avoid incorrectly losing all NOT_RUNNING bits with
back-to-back CPU hotplug operations; otherwise, completion of
rebinding while another unbinding is in progress could clear UNBIND
prematurely.

Now that both unbind/rebinding are atomic w.r.t. GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED,
there's no need to use two flags.  Just one is enough.  Don't use
WORKER_REBIND for busy rebinding.

tj: Updated description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-18 09:59:22 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
ea1abd6197 workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
Currently rebind_workers() uses rebinds idle workers synchronously
before proceeding to requesting busy workers to rebind.  This is
necessary because all workers on @worker_pool->idle_list must be bound
before concurrency management local wake-ups from the busy workers
take place.

Unfortunately, the synchronous idle rebinding is quite complicated.
This patch reimplements idle rebinding to simplify the code path.

Rather than trying to make all idle workers bound before rebinding
busy workers, we simply remove all to-be-bound idle workers from the
idle list and let them add themselves back after completing rebinding
(successful or not).

As only workers which finished rebinding can on on the idle worker
list, the idle worker list is guaranteed to have only bound workers
unless CPU went down again and local wake-ups are safe.

After the change, @worker_pool->nr_idle may deviate than the actual
number of idle workers on @worker_pool->idle_list.  More specifically,
nr_idle may be non-zero while ->idle_list is empty.  All users of
->nr_idle and ->idle_list are audited.  The only affected one is
too_many_workers() which is updated to check %false if ->idle_list is
empty regardless of ->nr_idle.

After this patch, rebind_workers() no longer performs the nasty
idle-rebind retries which require temporary release of gcwq->lock, and
both unbinding and rebinding are atomic w.r.t. global_cwq->lock.

worker->idle_rebind and global_cwq->rebind_hold are now unnecessary
and removed along with the definition of struct idle_rebind.

Changed from V1:
	1) remove unlikely from too_many_workers(), ->idle_list can be empty
	   anytime, even before this patch, no reason to use unlikely.
	2) fix a small rebasing mistake.
	   (which is from rebasing the orignal fixing patch to for-next)
	3) add a lot of comments.
	4) clear WORKER_REBIND unconditionaly in idle_worker_rebind()

tj: Updated comments and description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-18 09:59:22 -07:00
Tejun Heo
6c1423ba5d Merge branch 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq into for-3.7
This merge is necessary as Lai's CPU hotplug restructuring series
depends on the CPU hotplug bug fixes in for-3.6-fixes.

The merge creates one trivial conflict between the following two
commits.

 96e65306b8 "workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic"
 e2b6a6d570 "workqueue: use system_highpri_wq for highpri workers in rebind_workers()"

Both add local variable definitions to the same block and can be
merged in any order.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-17 16:09:09 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
960bd11bf2 workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()
busy_worker_rebind_fn() didn't clear WORKER_REBIND if rebinding failed
(CPU is down again).  This used to be okay because the flag wasn't
used for anything else.

However, after 25511a477 "workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding
to handle idle workers", WORKER_REBIND is also used to command idle
workers to rebind.  If not cleared, the worker may confuse the next
CPU_UP cycle by having REBIND spuriously set or oops / get stuck by
prematurely calling idle_worker_rebind().

  WARNING: at /work/os/wq/kernel/workqueue.c:1323 worker_thread+0x4cd/0x5
 00()
  Hardware name: Bochs
  Modules linked in: test_wq(O-)
  Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G           O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff8109039f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
   [<ffffffff810903fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
   [<ffffffff810b3f1d>] worker_thread+0x4cd/0x500
   [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0
   [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  ---[ end trace e977cf20f4661968 ]---
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
  IP: [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  Modules linked in: test_wq(O-)
  CPU 0
  Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G        W  O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Bochs Bochs
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b3db0>]  [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500
  RSP: 0018:ffff88001e1c9de0  EFLAGS: 00010086
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001e633e00 RCX: 0000000000004140
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000009
  RBP: ffff88001e1c9ea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
  R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88001fc8d580
  R13: ffff88001fc8d590 R14: ffff88001e633e20 R15: ffff88001e1c6900
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000130e8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process kworker/1:1 (pid: 33, threadinfo ffff88001e1c8000, task ffff88001e1c6900)
  Stack:
   ffff880000000000 ffff88001e1c9e40 0000000000000001 ffff88001e1c8010
   ffff88001e519c78 ffff88001e1c9e58 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900
   ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001fc8d340 ffff88001fc8d340
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0
   [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
  Code: b1 00 f6 43 48 02 0f 85 91 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 89 df 48 8b 00 48 89 45 90 e8 ac f0 ff ff 3c 01 0f 85 60 01 00 00 48 8b 53 50 <8b> 02 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 02 0f 84 3b 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 8b
  RIP  [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500
   RSP <ffff88001e1c9de0>
  CR2: 0000000000000000

There was no reason to keep WORKER_REBIND on failure in the first
place - WORKER_UNBOUND is guaranteed to be set in such cases
preventing incorrectly activating concurrency management.  Always
clear WORKER_REBIND.

tj: Updated comment and description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-17 15:42:31 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
ee378aa49b workqueue: fix possible idle worker depletion across CPU hotplug
To simplify both normal and CPU hotplug paths, worker management is
prevented while CPU hoplug is in progress.  This is achieved by CPU
hotplug holding the same exclusion mechanism used by workers to ensure
there's only one manager per pool.

If someone else seems to be performing the manager role, workers
proceed to execute work items.  CPU hotplug using the same mechanism
can lead to idle worker depletion because all workers could proceed to
execute work items while CPU hotplug is in progress and CPU hotplug
itself wouldn't actually perform the worker management duty - it
doesn't guarantee that there's an idle worker left when it releases
management.

This idle worker depletion, under extreme circumstances, can break
forward-progress guarantee and thus lead to deadlock.

This patch fixes the bug by using separate mechanisms for manager
exclusion among workers and hotplug exclusion.  For manager exclusion,
POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS which was restored by the previous patch is
used.  pool->manager_mutex is now only used for exclusion between the
elected manager and CPU hotplug.  The elected manager won't proceed
without holding pool->manager_mutex.

This ensures that the worker which won the manager position can't skip
managing while CPU hotplug is in progress.  It will block on
manager_mutex and perform management after CPU hotplug is complete.

Note that hotplug may happen while waiting for manager_mutex.  A
manager isn't either on idle or busy list and thus the hoplug code
can't unbind/rebind it.  Make the manager handle its own un/rebinding.

tj: Updated comment and description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-10 10:05:54 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
552a37e936 workqueue: restore POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS
This patch restores POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS which was replaced by
pool->manager_mutex by 6037315269 "workqueue: use mutex for global_cwq
manager exclusion".

There's a subtle idle worker depletion bug across CPU hotplug events
and we need to distinguish an actual manager and CPU hotplug
preventing management.  POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS will be used for the
former and manager_mutex the later.

This patch just lays POOL_MANAGING_WORKERS on top of the existing
manager_mutex and doesn't introduce any synchronization changes.  The
next patch will update it.

Note that this patch fixes a non-critical anomaly where
too_many_workers() may return %true spuriously while CPU hotplug is in
progress.  While the issue could schedule idle timer spuriously, it
didn't trigger any actual misbehavior.

tj: Rewrote patch description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-09-10 10:04:54 -07:00
Tejun Heo
ec58815ab0 workqueue: fix possible deadlock in idle worker rebinding
Currently, rebind_workers() and idle_worker_rebind() are two-way
interlocked.  rebind_workers() waits for idle workers to finish
rebinding and rebound idle workers wait for rebind_workers() to finish
rebinding busy workers before proceeding.

Unfortunately, this isn't enough.  The second wait from idle workers
is implemented as follows.

	wait_event(gcwq->rebind_hold, !(worker->flags & WORKER_REBIND));

rebind_workers() clears WORKER_REBIND, wakes up the idle workers and
then returns.  If CPU hotplug cycle happens again before one of the
idle workers finishes the above wait_event(), rebind_workers() will
repeat the first part of the handshake - set WORKER_REBIND again and
wait for the idle worker to finish rebinding - and this leads to
deadlock because the idle worker would be waiting for WORKER_REBIND to
clear.

This is fixed by adding another interlocking step at the end -
rebind_workers() now waits for all the idle workers to finish the
above WORKER_REBIND wait before returning.  This ensures that all
rebinding steps are complete on all idle workers before the next
hotplug cycle can happen.

This problem was diagnosed by Lai Jiangshan who also posted a patch to
fix the issue, upon which this patch is based.

This is the minimal fix and further patches are scheduled for the next
merge window to simplify the CPU hotplug path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Original-patch-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1346516916-1991-3-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2012-09-05 16:10:15 -07:00
Tejun Heo
90beca5de5 workqueue: move WORKER_REBIND clearing in rebind_workers() to the end of the function
This doesn't make any functional difference and is purely to help the
next patch to be simpler.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2012-09-05 16:10:14 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
96e65306b8 workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic
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 <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-09-04 17:04:45 -07:00
Tejun Heo
57b30ae77b workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
cancel_delayed_work() can't be called from IRQ handlers due to its use
of del_timer_sync() and can't cancel work items which are already
transferred from timer to worklist.

Also, unlike other flush and cancel functions, a canceled delayed_work
would still point to the last associated cpu_workqueue.  If the
workqueue is destroyed afterwards and the work item is re-used on a
different workqueue, the queueing code can oops trying to dereference
already freed cpu_workqueue.

This patch reimplements cancel_delayed_work() using
try_to_grab_pending() and set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending().  This
allows the function to be called from IRQ handlers and makes its
behavior consistent with other flush / cancel functions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2012-08-21 13:18:24 -07:00
Tejun Heo
e0aecdd874 workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
Up to now, for delayed_works, try_to_grab_pending() couldn't be used
from IRQ handlers because IRQs may happen while
delayed_work_timer_fn() is in progress leading to indefinite -EAGAIN.

This patch makes delayed_work use the new TIMER_IRQSAFE flag for
delayed_work->timer.  This makes try_to_grab_pending() and thus
mod_delayed_work_on() safe to call from IRQ handlers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-08-21 13:18:24 -07:00
Tejun Heo
ae930e0f4e workqueue: gut system_nrt[_freezable]_wq()
Now that all workqueues are non-reentrant, system[_freezable]_wq() are
equivalent to system_nrt[_freezable]_wq().  Replace the latter with
wrappers around system[_freezable]_wq().  The wrapping goes through
inline functions so that __deprecated can be added easily.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-08-20 14:51:23 -07:00
Tejun Heo
606a5020b9 workqueue: gut flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
Now that all workqueues are non-reentrant, flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
are equivalent to flush[_delayed]_work().  Drop the separate
implementation and make them thin wrappers around
flush[_delayed]_work().

* start_flush_work() no longer takes @wait_executing as the only left
  user - flush_work() - always sets it to %true.

* __cancel_work_timer() uses flush_work() instead of wait_on_work().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-08-20 14:51:23 -07:00
Tejun Heo
dbf2576e37 workqueue: make all workqueues non-reentrant
By default, each per-cpu part of a bound workqueue operates separately
and a work item may be executing concurrently on different CPUs.  The
behavior avoids some cross-cpu traffic but leads to subtle weirdities
and not-so-subtle contortions in the API.

* There's no sane usefulness in allowing a single work item to be
  executed concurrently on multiple CPUs.  People just get the
  behavior unintentionally and get surprised after learning about it.
  Most either explicitly synchronize or use non-reentrant/ordered
  workqueue but this is error-prone.

* flush_work() can't wait for multiple instances of the same work item
  on different CPUs.  If a work item is executing on cpu0 and then
  queued on cpu1, flush_work() can only wait for the one on cpu1.

  Unfortunately, work items can easily cross CPU boundaries
  unintentionally when the queueing thread gets migrated.  This means
  that if multiple queuers compete, flush_work() can't even guarantee
  that the instance queued right before it is finished before
  returning.

* flush_work_sync() was added to work around some of the deficiencies
  of flush_work().  In addition to the usual flushing, it ensures that
  all currently executing instances are finished before returning.
  This operation is expensive as it has to walk all CPUs and at the
  same time fails to address competing queuer case.

  Incorrectly using flush_work() when flush_work_sync() is necessary
  is an easy error to make and can lead to bugs which are difficult to
  reproduce.

* Similar problems exist for flush_delayed_work[_sync]().

Other than the cross-cpu access concern, there's no benefit in
allowing parallel execution and it's plain silly to have this level of
contortion for workqueue which is widely used from core code to
extremely obscure drivers.

This patch makes all workqueues non-reentrant.  If a work item is
executing on a different CPU when queueing is requested, it is always
queued to that CPU.  This guarantees that any given work item can be
executing on one CPU at maximum and if a work item is queued and
executing, both are on the same CPU.

The only behavior change which may affect workqueue users negatively
is that non-reentrancy overrides the affinity specified by
queue_work_on().  On a reentrant workqueue, the affinity specified by
queue_work_on() is always followed.  Now, if the work item is
executing on one of the CPUs, the work item will be queued there
regardless of the requested affinity.  I've reviewed all workqueue
users which request explicit affinity, and, fortunately, none seems to
be crazy enough to exploit parallel execution of the same work item.

This adds an additional busy_hash lookup if the work item was
previously queued on a different CPU.  This shouldn't be noticeable
under any sane workload.  Work item queueing isn't a very
high-frequency operation and they don't jump across CPUs all the time.
In a micro benchmark to exaggerate this difference - measuring the
time it takes for two work items to repeatedly jump between two CPUs a
number (10M) of times with busy_hash table densely populated, the
difference was around 3%.

While the overhead is measureable, it is only visible in pathological
cases and the difference isn't huge.  This change brings much needed
sanity to workqueue and makes its behavior consistent with timer.  I
think this is the right tradeoff to make.

This enables significant simplification of workqueue API.
Simplification patches will follow.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-08-20 14:51:23 -07:00
Valentin Ilie
044c782ce3 workqueue: fix checkpatch issues
Fixed some checkpatch warnings.

tj: adapted to wq/for-3.7 and massaged pr_xxx() format strings a bit.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Ilie <valentin.ilie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1345326762-21747-1-git-send-email-valentin.ilie@gmail.com>
2012-08-20 13:37:07 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
7635d2fd7f workqueue: use system_highpri_wq for unbind_work
To speed cpu down processing up, use system_highpri_wq.
As scheduling priority of workers on it is higher than system_wq and
it is not contended by other normal works on this cpu, work on it
is processed faster than system_wq.

tj: CPU up/downs care quite a bit about latency these days.  This
    shouldn't hurt anything and makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-08-16 14:21:16 -07:00
Joonsoo Kim
e2b6a6d570 workqueue: use system_highpri_wq for highpri workers in rebind_workers()
In rebind_workers(), we do inserting a work to rebind to cpu for busy workers.
Currently, in this case, we use only system_wq. This makes a possible
error situation as there is mismatch between cwq->pool and worker->pool.

To prevent this, we should use system_highpri_wq for highpri worker
to match theses. This implements it.

tj: Rephrased comment a bit.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-08-16 14:21:15 -07:00