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Commit ad7c946b authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Create RCU-specific workqueues with rescuers



RCU's expedited grace periods can participate in out-of-memory deadlocks
due to all available system_wq kthreads being blocked and there not being
memory available to create more.  This commit prevents such deadlocks
by allocating an RCU-specific workqueue_struct at early boot time, and
providing it with a rescuer to ensure forward progress.  This uses the
shiny new init_rescuer() function provided by Tejun (but indirectly).

This commit also causes SRCU to use this new RCU-specific
workqueue_struct.  Note that SRCU's use of workqueues never blocks them
waiting for readers, so this should be safe from a forward-progress
viewpoint.  Note that this moves SRCU from system_power_efficient_wq
to a normal workqueue.  In the unlikely event that this results in
measurable degradation, a separate power-efficient workqueue will be
creates for SRCU.

Reported-by: default avatarPrateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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