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If a per-cpu work item hogs the CPU, it can prevent other work items from
starting through concurrency management. A per-cpu workqueue which intends
to host such CPU-hogging work items can choose to not participate in
concurrency management by setting %WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE; however, this can be
error-prone and difficult to debug when missed.
This patch adds an automatic CPU usage based detection. If a
concurrency-managed work item consumes more CPU time than the threshold
(10ms by default) continuously without intervening sleeps, wq_worker_tick()
which is called from scheduler_tick() will detect the condition and
automatically mark it CPU_INTENSIVE.
The mechanism isn't foolproof:
* Detection depends on tick hitting the work item. Getting preempted at the
right timings may allow a violating work item to evade detection at least
temporarily.
* nohz_full CPUs may not be running ticks and thus can fail detection.
* Even when detection is working, the 10ms detection delays can add up if
many CPU-hogging work items are queued at the same time.
However, in vast majority of cases, this should be able to detect violations
reliably and provide reasonable protection with a small increase in code
complexity.
If some work items trigger this condition repeatedly, the bigger problem
likely is the CPU being saturated with such per-cpu work items and the
solution would be making them UNBOUND. The next patch will add a debug
mechanism to help spot such cases.
v4: Documentation for workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us added to
kernel-parameters.txt.
v3: Switch to use wq_worker_tick() instead of hooking into preemptions as
suggested by Peter.
v2: Lai pointed out that wq_worker_stopping() also needs to be called from
preemption and rtlock paths and an earlier patch was updated
accordingly. This patch adds a comment describing the risk of infinte
recursions and how they're avoided.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
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/*
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* kernel/workqueue_internal.h
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*
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* Workqueue internal header file. Only to be included by workqueue and
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* core kernel subsystems.
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*/
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#ifndef _KERNEL_WORKQUEUE_INTERNAL_H
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#define _KERNEL_WORKQUEUE_INTERNAL_H
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#include <linux/workqueue.h>
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#include <linux/kthread.h>
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#include <linux/preempt.h>
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struct worker_pool;
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/*
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* The poor guys doing the actual heavy lifting. All on-duty workers are
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* either serving the manager role, on idle list or on busy hash. For
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* details on the locking annotation (L, I, X...), refer to workqueue.c.
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*
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* Only to be used in workqueue and async.
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*/
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struct worker {
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/* on idle list while idle, on busy hash table while busy */
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union {
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struct list_head entry; /* L: while idle */
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struct hlist_node hentry; /* L: while busy */
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};
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struct work_struct *current_work; /* K: work being processed and its */
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work_func_t current_func; /* K: function */
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struct pool_workqueue *current_pwq; /* K: pwq */
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u64 current_at; /* K: runtime at start or last wakeup */
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unsigned int current_color; /* K: color */
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int sleeping; /* S: is worker sleeping? */
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/* used by the scheduler to determine a worker's last known identity */
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work_func_t last_func; /* K: last work's fn */
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struct list_head scheduled; /* L: scheduled works */
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struct task_struct *task; /* I: worker task */
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struct worker_pool *pool; /* A: the associated pool */
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/* L: for rescuers */
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struct list_head node; /* A: anchored at pool->workers */
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/* A: runs through worker->node */
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unsigned long last_active; /* K: last active timestamp */
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unsigned int flags; /* X: flags */
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int id; /* I: worker id */
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/*
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* Opaque string set with work_set_desc(). Printed out with task
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* dump for debugging - WARN, BUG, panic or sysrq.
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*/
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char desc[WORKER_DESC_LEN];
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/* used only by rescuers to point to the target workqueue */
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struct workqueue_struct *rescue_wq; /* I: the workqueue to rescue */
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};
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/**
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* current_wq_worker - return struct worker if %current is a workqueue worker
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*/
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static inline struct worker *current_wq_worker(void)
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{
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if (in_task() && (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER))
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return kthread_data(current);
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return NULL;
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}
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/*
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* Scheduler hooks for concurrency managed workqueue. Only to be used from
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* sched/ and workqueue.c.
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*/
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void wq_worker_running(struct task_struct *task);
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void wq_worker_sleeping(struct task_struct *task);
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void wq_worker_tick(struct task_struct *task);
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work_func_t wq_worker_last_func(struct task_struct *task);
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#endif /* _KERNEL_WORKQUEUE_INTERNAL_H */
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