Workqueue stalls can happen from a variety of usage bugs such as
missing WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag or concurrency managed work item
indefinitely staying RUNNING. These stalls can be extremely difficult
to hunt down because the usual warning mechanisms can't detect
workqueue stalls and the internal state is pretty opaque.
To alleviate the situation, this patch implements workqueue lockup
detector. It periodically monitors all worker_pools periodically and,
if any pool failed to make forward progress longer than the threshold
duration, triggers warning and dumps workqueue state as follows.
BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 31s!
Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
workqueue events: flags=0x0
pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=17/256
pending: monkey_wrench_fn, e1000_watchdog, cache_reap, vmstat_shepherd, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, release_one_tty, cgroup_release_agent
workqueue events_power_efficient: flags=0x80
pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
pending: check_lifetime, neigh_periodic_work
workqueue cgroup_pidlist_destroy: flags=0x0
pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/1
pending: cgroup_pidlist_destroy_work_fn
...
The detection mechanism is controller through kernel parameter
workqueue.watchdog_thresh and can be updated at runtime through the
sysfs module parameter file.
v2: Decoupled from softlockup control knobs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
There are some errors in the docbook comments in workqueue.h that cause
warnings when the docs are built; this only recently came to light because
these comments were not used until now. Fix the comments to make the
warnings go away.
The "args..." "fix" is a hack. kerneldoc doesn't deal properly with named
variadic arguments in macros, so all I've really achieved here is to make
it shut up. Fixing kerneldoc will have to wait for more time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
flush_scheduled_work() is just a simple call to flush_work().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Allow to modify the low-level unbound workqueues cpumask through
sysfs. This is performed by traversing the entire workqueue list
and calling apply_wqattrs_prepare() on the unbound workqueues
with the new low level mask. Only after all the preparation are done,
we commit them all together.
Ordered workqueues are ignored from the low level unbound workqueue
cpumask, it will be handled in near future.
All the (default & per-node) pwqs are mandatorily controlled by
the low level cpumask. If the user configured cpumask doesn't overlap
with the low level cpumask, the low level cpumask will be used for the
wq instead.
The comment of wq_calc_node_cpumask() is updated and explicitly
requires that its first argument should be the attrs of the default
pwq.
The default wq_unbound_cpumask is cpu_possible_mask. The workqueue
subsystem doesn't know its best default value, let the system manager
or the other subsystem set it when needed.
Changed from V8:
merge the calculating code for the attrs of the default pwq together.
minor change the code&comments for saving the user configured attrs.
remove unnecessary list_del().
minor update the comment of wq_calc_node_cpumask().
update the comment of workqueue_set_unbound_cpumask();
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Workqueues are used extensively throughout the kernel but sometimes
it's difficult to debug stalls involving work items because visibility
into its inner workings is fairly limited. Although sysrq-t task dump
annotates each active worker task with the information on the work
item being executed, it is challenging to find out which work items
are pending or delayed on which queues and how pools are being
managed.
This patch implements show_workqueue_state() which dumps all busy
workqueues and pools and is called from the sysrq-t handler. At the
end of sysrq-t dump, something like the following is printed.
Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
...
workqueue filler_wq: flags=0x0
pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
in-flight: 491:filler_workfn, 507:filler_workfn
pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256
in-flight: 501:filler_workfn
pending: filler_workfn
...
workqueue test_wq: flags=0x8
pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/1
in-flight: 510(RESCUER):test_workfn BAR(69) BAR(500)
delayed: test_workfn1 BAR(492), test_workfn2
...
pool 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 137
pool 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=3 manager: 469
pool 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 workers=2 idle: 16
pool 8: cpus=0-3 flags=0x4 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 62
The above shows that test_wq is executing test_workfn() on pid 510
which is the rescuer and also that there are two tasks 69 and 500
waiting for the work item to finish in flush_work(). As test_wq has
max_active of 1, there are two work items for test_workfn1() and
test_workfn2() which are delayed till the current work item is
finished. In addition, pid 492 is flushing test_workfn1().
The work item for test_workfn() is being executed on pwq of pool 2
which is the normal priority per-cpu pool for CPU 1. The pool has
three workers, two of which are executing filler_workfn() for
filler_wq and the last one is assuming the manager role trying to
create more workers.
This extra workqueue state dump will hopefully help chasing down hangs
involving workqueues.
v3: cpulist_pr_cont() replaced with "%*pbl" printf formatting.
v2: As suggested by Andrew, minor formatting change in pr_cont_work(),
printk()'s replaced with pr_info()'s, and cpumask printing now
uses cpulist_pr_cont().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>
checkpatch.pl complained about two single statement macros in
do while (0) loops. The loops and the trailing semicolons are
now removed, which makes checkpatch happy and the two macros
consistent with the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
create_singlethread_workqueue() is a compat interface for single
threaded workqueue which maps to ordered workqueue w/ rescuer in the
current implementation. create_singlethread_workqueue() currently
implemented by invoking alloc_workqueue() w/ appropriate parameters.
8719dceae2 ("workqueue: reject adjusting max_active or applying
attrs to ordered workqueues") introduced __WQ_ORDERED to protect
ordered workqueues against dynamic attribute changes which can break
ordering guarantees but forgot to apply it to
create_singlethread_workqueue(). This in itself is okay as nobody
currently uses dynamic attribute change on workqueues created with
create_singlethread_workqueue().
However, 4c16bd327c ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound
workqueues") broke singlethreaded guarantee for ordered workqueues
through allocating a separate pool_workqueue on each NUMA node by
default. A later change 8a2b753844 ("workqueue: fix ordered
workqueues in NUMA setups") fixed it by allocating only one global
pool_workqueue if __WQ_ORDERED is set.
Combined, the __WQ_ORDERED omission in create_singlethread_workqueue()
became critical breaking its single threadedness and ordering
guarantee.
Let's make create_singlethread_workqueue() wrap
alloc_ordered_workqueue() instead so that it inherits __WQ_ORDERED and
can implicitly track future ordered_workqueue changes.
v2: I missed that __WQ_ORDERED now protects against pwq splitting
across NUMA nodes and incorrectly described the patch as a
nice-to-have fix to protect against future dynamic attribute
usages. Oleg pointed out that this is actually a critical
breakage due to 8a2b753844 ("workqueue: fix ordered workqueues
in NUMA setups").
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Mike Anderson <mike.anderson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <onestero@redhat.com>
Cc: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gduarte@redhat.com>
Cc: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4c16bd327c ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues")
In 8930caba3d ("workqueue: disable irq while manipulating PENDING"),
setting last CPU and clearing PENDING got merged into a single
operation (set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending()), which resulted that the
internal routine work_clear_pending() is not used any more.
tj: Minor description tweak.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
WORK_CPU_END is totally unused since 4e8b22bd1a ("workqueue: fix
pool ID allocation leakage and remove BUILD_BUG_ON() in
init_workqueues"). It should be removed.
After it is removed, the comment "special cpu IDs" is not precise due to
there is only one special CPU ID (WORK_CPU_UNBOUND) left, so we also
change this comment to the description for WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
tj: Minor description and comment tweaks.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
system_highpri_wq is exported to modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(),
but it was forgotten to be declared in workqueue.h. So we add the declaration
and a short description for it.
tj: Minor comment tweak.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
system_nrt[_freezable]_wq were deprecated by 3b07e9c ("workqueue:
deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq") and have been deprecated
for a long time. In addition, these are not used anymore. So,
let's remove these functions.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
flush[_delayed]_work_sync() were deprecated by 4382973 ("workqueue:
deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()") and have been deprecated
for a long time. In addition, these are not used anymore. So,
let's remove these functions.
Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull timer changes from Thomas Gleixner:
"This assorted collection provides:
- A new timer based timer broadcast feature for systems which do not
provide a global accessible timer device. That allows those
systems to put CPUs into deep idle states where the per cpu timer
device stops.
- A few NOHZ_FULL related improvements to the timer wheel
- The usual updates to timer devices found in ARM SoCs
- Small improvements and updates all over the place"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
tick: Remove code duplication in tick_handle_periodic()
tick: Fix spelling mistake in tick_handle_periodic()
x86: hpet: Use proper destructor for delayed work
workqueue: Provide destroy_delayed_work_on_stack()
clocksource: CMT, MTU2, TMU and STI should depend on GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
timer: Remove code redundancy while calling get_nohz_timer_target()
hrtimer: Rearrange comments in the order struct members are declared
timer: Use variable head instead of &work_list in __run_timers()
clocksource: exynos_mct: silence a static checker warning
arm: zynq: Add support for cpufreq
arm: zynq: Don't use arm_global_timer with cpufreq
clocksource/cadence_ttc: Overhaul clocksource frequency adjustment
clocksource/cadence_ttc: Call clockevents_update_freq() with IRQs enabled
clocksource: Add Kconfig entries for CMT, MTU2, TMU and STI
sh: Remove Kconfig entries for TMU, CMT and MTU2
ARM: shmobile: Remove CMT, TMU and STI Kconfig entries
clocksource: armada-370-xp: Use atomic access for shared registers
clocksource: orion: Use atomic access for shared registers
clocksource: timer-keystone: Delete unnecessary variable
clocksource: timer-keystone: introduce clocksource driver for Keystone
...
Tejun Heo has made WQ_NON_REENTRANT useless in the dbf2576e37
("workqueue: make all workqueues non-reentrant"). So remove its
usages and definition.
This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes.
tj: minor description updates.
Signed-off-by: ZhangZhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Sigend-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
If a delayed or deferrable work is on stack we need to tell debug
objects that we are destroying the timer and the work. Otherwise we
leak the tracking object.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140323141939.911487677@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Peter Hurley noticed that since a2c1c57be8 ("workqueue: consider
work function when searching for busy work items"), a work item which
gets assigned a different work function would break out of the
non-reentrancy guarantee as workqueue would consider it a different
work item.
This is fragile and extremely subtle. PREPARE_[DELAYED_]WORK() have
never been used widely and its semantics has always been somewhat
iffy. If the work item is known not to be on queue when
PREPARE_WORK() is called, there's no difference from using
INIT_WORK(). If the work item may be queued at the time of
PREPARE_WORK(), we can't really tell whether the old or new function
will be executed the next time.
We really don't want this level of subtlety in workqueue interface for
such marginal use cases. The previous patches converted all existing
users away from PREPARE_[DELAYED_]WORK(). Let's remove them.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1392493119-9277-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com
To receive 70044d71d3 ("firewire: don't use PREPARE_DELAYED_WORK").
There will be further related updates in for-3.15 branch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
__cancel_delayed_work() was deprecated by 136b5721d7 ("workqueue:
deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()") as cancel_delayed_work() was
updated so that it could be used from all contexts. Enough time has
passed since the deprecation. Let's remove it.
tj: description update
Signed-off-by: Tan Xiaojun <tanxiaojun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tommi noticed a 'funny' lock class name: "%s#5" from a lock acquired in
process_one_work().
Maybe #fmt plus #args could be used as the lock_name to give some more
information for some fmt string like the above.
__builtin_constant_p() check is removed (as there seems no good way to
check all the variables in args list). However, by removing the check,
it only adds two additional "s for those constants.
Some lockdep name examples printed out after the change:
lockdep name wq->name
"events_long" events_long
"%s"("khelper") khelper
"xfs-data/%s"mp->m_fsname xfs-data/dm-3
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
dbf2576e37 ("workqueue: make all workqueues non-reentrant") made
WQ_NON_REENTRANT no-op but the following patches didn't remove the
flag or update the documentation. Let's mark the flag deprecated and
update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
For the workqueue creation interfaces that do not expect format strings,
make sure they cannot accidently be parsed that way. Additionally, clean
up calls made with a single parameter that would be handled as a format
string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string content, so
use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds system wide workqueues aligned towards power saving. This is
done by allocating them with WQ_UNBOUND flag if 'wq_power_efficient' is set to
'true'.
tj: updated comments a bit.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Workqueues can be performance or power-oriented. Currently, most workqueues are
bound to the CPU they were created on. This gives good performance (due to cache
effects) at the cost of potentially waking up otherwise idle cores (Idle from
scheduler's perspective. Which may or may not be physically idle) just to
process some work. To save power, we can allow the work to be rescheduled on a
core that is already awake.
Workqueues created with the WQ_UNBOUND flag will allow some power savings.
However, we don't change the default behaviour of the system. To enable
power-saving behaviour, a new config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT needs to
be turned on. This option can also be overridden by the
workqueue.power_efficient boot parameter.
tj: Updated config description and comments. Renamed
CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT to CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom
threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue
anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the
worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug
dump from oops, BUG() and friends.
This patch implements set_worker_desc() which can be called from any
workqueue work function to set its description. When the worker task is
dumped for whatever reason - sysrq-t, WARN, BUG, oops, lockdep assertion
and so on - the description will be printed out together with the
workqueue name and the worker function pointer.
The printing side is implemented by print_worker_info() which is called
from functions in task dump paths - sched_show_task() and
dump_stack_print_info(). print_worker_info() can be safely called on
any task in any state as long as the task struct itself is accessible.
It uses probe_*() functions to access worker fields. It may print
garbage if something went very wrong, but it wouldn't cause (another)
oops.
The description is currently limited to 24bytes including the
terminating \0. worker->desc_valid and workder->desc[] are added and
the 64 bytes marker which was already incorrect before adding the new
fields is moved to the correct position.
Here's an example dump with writeback updated to set the bdi name as
worker desc.
Hardware name: Bochs
Modules linked in:
Pid: 7, comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #1
Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:0)
ffffffff820a3ab0 ffff88000f6e9cb8 ffffffff81c61845 ffff88000f6e9cf8
ffffffff8108f50f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000cde16b0
ffff88000cde1aa8 ffff88001ee19240 ffff88000f6e9fd8 ffff88000f6e9d08
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81c61845>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff81200150>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2a0/0x3b0
...
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Unbound workqueues are now NUMA aware. Let's add some control knobs
and update sysfs interface accordingly.
* Add kernel param workqueue.numa_disable which disables NUMA affinity
globally.
* Replace sysfs file "pool_id" with "pool_ids" which contain
node:pool_id pairs. This change is userland-visible but "pool_id"
hasn't seen a release yet, so this is okay.
* Add a new sysf files "numa" which can toggle NUMA affinity on
individual workqueues. This is implemented as attrs->no_numa whichn
is special in that it isn't part of a pool's attributes. It only
affects how apply_workqueue_attrs() picks which pools to use.
After "pool_ids" change, first_pwq() doesn't have any user left.
Removed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
There's no reason to make these trivial wrappers full (exported)
functions. Inline the followings.
queue_work()
queue_delayed_work()
mod_delayed_work()
schedule_work_on()
schedule_work()
schedule_delayed_work_on()
schedule_delayed_work()
keventd_up()
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Implement a function which queries whether it currently is running off
a workqueue rescuer. This will be used to convert writeback to
workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
There are cases where workqueue users want to expose control knobs to
userland. e.g. Unbound workqueues with custom attributes are
scheduled to be used for writeback workers and depending on
configuration it can be useful to allow admins to tinker with the
priority or allowed CPUs.
This patch implements workqueue_sysfs_register(), which makes the
workqueue visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/WQ_NAME. There
currently are two attributes common to both per-cpu and unbound pools
and extra attributes for unbound pools including nice level and
cpumask.
If alloc_workqueue*() is called with WQ_SYSFS,
workqueue_sysfs_register() is called automatically as part of
workqueue creation. This is the preferred method unless the workqueue
user wants to apply workqueue_attrs before making the workqueue
visible to userland.
v2: Disallow exposing ordered workqueues as ordered workqueues can't
be tuned in any way.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Adjusting max_active of or applying new workqueue_attrs to an ordered
workqueue breaks its ordering guarantee. The former is obvious. The
latter is because applying attrs creates a new pwq (pool_workqueue)
and there is no ordering constraint between the old and new pwqs.
Make apply_workqueue_attrs() and workqueue_set_max_active() trigger
WARN_ON() if those operations are requested on an ordered workqueue
and fail / ignore respectively.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
We're gonna add another internal WQ flag. Let's make the distinction
clear. Prefix WQ_DRAINING with __ and move it to bit 16.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Implement apply_workqueue_attrs() which applies workqueue_attrs to the
specified unbound workqueue by creating a new pwq (pool_workqueue)
linked to worker_pool with the specified attributes.
A new pwq is linked at the head of wq->pwqs instead of tail and
__queue_work() verifies that the first unbound pwq has positive refcnt
before choosing it for the actual queueing. This is to cover the case
where creation of a new pwq races with queueing. As base ref on a pwq
won't be dropped without making another pwq the first one,
__queue_work() is guaranteed to make progress and not add work item to
a dead pwq.
init_and_link_pwq() is updated to return the last first pwq the new
pwq replaced, which is put by apply_workqueue_attrs().
Note that apply_workqueue_attrs() is almost identical to unbound pwq
part of alloc_and_link_pwqs(). The only difference is that there is
no previous first pwq. apply_workqueue_attrs() is implemented to
handle such cases and replaces unbound pwq handling in
alloc_and_link_pwqs().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
WQ_RESCUER is superflous. WQ_MEM_RECLAIM indicates that the user
wants a rescuer and testing wq->rescuer for NULL can answer whether a
given workqueue has a rescuer or not. Drop WQ_RESCUER and test
wq->rescuer directly.
This will help simplifying __alloc_workqueue_key() failure path by
allowing it to use destroy_workqueue() on a partially constructed
workqueue, which in turn will help implementing dynamic management of
pool_workqueues.
While at it, clear wq->rescuer after freeing it in
destroy_workqueue(). This is a precaution as scheduled changes will
make destruction more complex.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Introduce struct workqueue_attrs which carries worker attributes -
currently the nice level and allowed cpumask along with helper
routines alloc_workqueue_attrs() and free_workqueue_attrs().
Each worker_pool now carries ->attrs describing the attributes of its
workers. All functions dealing with cpumask and nice level of workers
are updated to follow worker_pool->attrs instead of determining them
from other characteristics of the worker_pool, and init_workqueues()
is updated to set worker_pool->attrs appropriately for all standard
pools.
Note that create_worker() is updated to always perform set_user_nice()
and use set_cpus_allowed_ptr() combined with manual assertion of
PF_THREAD_BOUND instead of kthread_bind(). This simplifies handling
random attributes without affecting the outcome.
This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes.
v2: Missing cpumask_var_t definition caused build failure on some
archs. linux/cpumask.h included.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Workqueue is mixing unsigned int and int for @cpu variables. There's
no point in using unsigned int for cpus - many of cpu related APIs
take int anyway. Consistently use int for @cpu variables so that we
can use negative values to mark special ones.
This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
When a work item is off-queue, its work->data contains WORK_STRUCT_*
and WORK_OFFQ_* flags. As WORK_OFFQ_* flags are used only while a
work item is off-queue, it can occupy bits of work->data which aren't
used while off-queue. WORK_OFFQ_* currently only use bits used by
on-queue CWQ pointer. As color bits aren't used while off-queue,
there's no reason to not use them.
Lower WORK_OFFQ_FLAG_BASE from WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS to
WORK_STRUCT_COLOR_SHIFT thus giving 4 more bits to off-queue flag
space which is also used to record worker_pool ID while off-queue.
This doesn't introduce any visible behavior difference.
tj: Rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
workqueue has moved away from global_cwqs to worker_pools and with the
scheduled custom worker pools, wforkqueues will be associated with
pools which don't have anything to do with CPUs. The workqueue code
went through significant amount of changes recently and mass renaming
isn't likely to hurt much additionally. Let's replace 'cpu' with
'pool' so that it reflects the current design.
* s/struct cpu_workqueue_struct/struct pool_workqueue/
* s/cpu_wq/pool_wq/
* s/cwq/pwq/
This patch is purely cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To avoid executing the same work item from multiple CPUs concurrently,
a work_struct records the last pool it was on in its ->data so that,
on the next queueing, the pool can be queried to determine whether the
work item is still executing or not.
A delayed_work goes through timer before actually being queued on the
target workqueue and the timer needs to know the target workqueue and
CPU. This is currently achieved by modifying delayed_work->work.data
such that it points to the cwq which points to the target workqueue
and the last CPU the work item was on. __queue_delayed_work()
extracts the last CPU from delayed_work->work.data and then combines
it with the target workqueue to create new work.data.
The only thing this rather ugly hack achieves is encoding the target
workqueue into delayed_work->work.data without using a separate field,
which could be a trade off one can make; unfortunately, this entangles
work->data management between regular workqueue and delayed_work code
by setting cwq pointer before the work item is actually queued and
becomes a hindrance for further improvements of work->data handling.
This can be easily made sane by adding a target workqueue field to
delayed_work. While delayed_work is used widely in the kernel and
this does make it a bit larger (<5%), I think this is the right
trade-off especially given the prospect of much saner handling of
work->data which currently involves quite tricky memory barrier
dancing, and don't expect to see any measureable effect.
Add delayed_work->wq and drop the delayed_work->work.data overloading.
tj: Rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Now that workqueue has moved away from gcwqs, workqueue no longer has
the need to have a CPU identifier indicating "no cpu associated" - we
now use WORK_OFFQ_POOL_NONE instead - and most uses of WORK_CPU_NONE
are gone.
The only left usage is as the end marker for for_each_*wq*()
iterators, where the name WORK_CPU_NONE is confusing w/o actual
WORK_CPU_NONE usages. Similarly, WORK_CPU_LAST which equals
WORK_CPU_NONE no longer makes sense.
Replace both WORK_CPU_NONE and LAST with WORK_CPU_END. This patch
doesn't introduce any functional difference.
tj: s/WORK_CPU_LAST/WORK_CPU_END/ and rewrote the description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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>
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>
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>
Now that cancel_delayed_work() can be safely called from IRQ handlers,
there's no reason to use __cancel_delayed_work(). Use
cancel_delayed_work() instead of __cancel_delayed_work() and mark the
latter deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
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>
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>
Reimplement delayed_work initializers using new timer initializers
which take timer flags. This reduces code duplications and will ease
further initializer changes. This patch also adds a missing
initializer - INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK_ONSTACK().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Initalizers for deferrable delayed_work are confused.
* __DEFERRED_WORK_INITIALIZER()
* DECLARE_DEFERRED_WORK()
* INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE()
Rename them to
* __DEFERRABLE_WORK_INITIALIZER()
* DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK()
* INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK()
This patch doesn't cause any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Consistently use the last tab position for '\' line continuation in
complex macro definitions. This is to help the following patches.
This patch is cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
system_nrt[_freezable]_wq are now spurious. Mark them deprecated and
convert all users to system[_freezable]_wq.
If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are
non-reentrant, so there's no reason to use system_nrt[_freezable]_wq.
Please use system[_freezable]_wq instead.
This patch doesn't make any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-By: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>