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<title>workqueue: perform cpu down operations from low priority cpu_notifier()</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T15:31:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-17T19:39:26+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T07:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-14T22:04:50+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;lock, schedules, regrabs gcwq-&gt;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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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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-&gt;lock, schedules, regrabs gcwq-&gt;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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2012-03-21T01:13:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T01:13:22+00:00</published>
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This contains only one commit which cleans up UP allocation path a
  bit."

* 'for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: use percpu allocator for cwq on UP
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This contains only one commit which cleans up UP allocation path a
  bit."

* 'for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: use percpu allocator for cwq on UP
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<entry>
<title>workqueue: use percpu allocator for cwq on UP</title>
<updated>2012-03-12T16:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-09T10:03:20+00:00</published>
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I notice that the commit bbddff makes percpu allocator can work on UP,
So we don't need the magic way for UP.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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I notice that the commit bbddff makes percpu allocator can work on UP,
So we don't need the magic way for UP.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Block: use a freezable workqueue for disk-event polling</title>
<updated>2012-03-02T09:51:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-02T09:51:00+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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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 &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
CC: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>workqueue: make alloc_workqueue() take printf fmt and args for name</title>
<updated>2012-01-11T00:30:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-10T23:11:35+00:00</published>
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alloc_workqueue() currently expects the passed in @name pointer to remain
accessible.  This is inconvenient and a bit silly given that the whole wq
is being dynamically allocated.  This patch updates alloc_workqueue() and
friends to take printf format string instead of opaque string and matching
varargs at the end.  The name is allocated together with the wq and
formatted.

alloc_ordered_workqueue() is converted to a macro to unify varargs
handling with alloc_workqueue(), and, while at it, add comment to
alloc_workqueue().

None of the current in-kernel users pass in string with '%' as constant
name and this change shouldn't cause any problem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __printf]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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alloc_workqueue() currently expects the passed in @name pointer to remain
accessible.  This is inconvenient and a bit silly given that the whole wq
is being dynamically allocated.  This patch updates alloc_workqueue() and
friends to take printf format string instead of opaque string and matching
varargs at the end.  The name is allocated together with the wq and
formatted.

alloc_ordered_workqueue() is converted to a macro to unify varargs
handling with alloc_workqueue(), and, while at it, add comment to
alloc_workqueue().

None of the current in-kernel users pass in string with '%' as constant
name and this change shouldn't cause any problem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __printf]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T13:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T18:51:41+00:00</published>
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The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else.  Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

  -#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  +#include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;

This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else.  Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

  -#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  +#include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;

This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>workqueue: lock cwq access in drain_workqueue</title>
<updated>2011-09-15T01:09:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Tuttle</name>
<email>ttuttle@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-14T23:22:28+00:00</published>
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Take cwq-&gt;gcwq-&gt;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 &lt;ttuttle@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Take cwq-&gt;gcwq-&gt;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 &lt;ttuttle@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2011-07-22T22:07:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-22T22:07:15+00:00</published>
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* 'for-3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: separate out drain_workqueue() from destroy_workqueue()
  workqueue: remove cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]()
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* 'for-3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: separate out drain_workqueue() from destroy_workqueue()
  workqueue: remove cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]()
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T18:53:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T18:53:42+00:00</published>
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* '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
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* '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
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