raspi/linux
1
0
Fork 1
mirror of https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git synced 2025-12-11 04:20:06 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

workqueue: make rescuer_thread() empty wq->maydays list before exiting

Browse Source 
commit 4d595b866d upstream.

After a @pwq is scheduled for emergency execution, other workers may
consume the affectd work items before the rescuer gets to them.  This
means that a workqueue many have pwqs queued on @wq->maydays list
while not having any work item pending or in-flight.  If
destroy_workqueue() executes in such condition, the rescuer may exit
without emptying @wq->maydays.

This currently doesn't cause any actual harm.  destroy_workqueue() can
safely destroy all the involved data structures whether @wq->maydays
is populated or not as nobody access the list once the rescuer exits.

However, this is nasty and makes future development difficult.  Let's
update rescuer_thread() so that it empties @wq->maydays after seeing
should_stop to guarantee that the list is empty on rescuer exit.

tj: Updated comment and patch description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Lai Jiangshan
2014-04-18 11:04:16 -04:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 7b21cacc8b
commit efa2a039af
1 changed files with 16 additions and 5 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

21
kernel/workqueue.c
View File

@@ -2397,6 +2397,7 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__rescuer)
struct worker *rescuer = __rescuer;
struct workqueue_struct *wq = rescuer->rescue_wq;
struct list_head *scheduled = &rescuer->scheduled;
bool should_stop;
set_user_nice(current, RESCUER_NICE_LEVEL);
@@ -2408,11 +2409,15 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__rescuer)
repeat:
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
if (kthread_should_stop()) {
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
rescuer->task->flags &= ~PF_WQ_WORKER;
return 0;
}
/*
* By the time the rescuer is requested to stop, the workqueue
* shouldn't have any work pending, but @wq->maydays may still have
* pwq(s) queued. This can happen by non-rescuer workers consuming
* all the work items before the rescuer got to them. Go through
* @wq->maydays processing before acting on should_stop so that the
* list is always empty on exit.
*/
should_stop = kthread_should_stop();
/* see whether any pwq is asking for help */
spin_lock_irq(&wq_mayday_lock);
@@ -2464,6 +2469,12 @@ repeat:
spin_unlock_irq(&wq_mayday_lock);
if (should_stop) {
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
rescuer->task->flags &= ~PF_WQ_WORKER;
return 0;
}
/* rescuers should never participate in concurrency management */
WARN_ON_ONCE(!(rescuer->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING));
schedule();