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Commit 5c0338c6 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo
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workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered



The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply
ordered execution.  After NUMA affinity 4c16bd32 ("workqueue:
implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues"), this is no longer
true due to per-node worker pools.

While the right way to create an ordered workqueue is
alloc_ordered_workqueue(), the documentation has been misleading for a
long time and people do use WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 for ordered
workqueues which can lead to subtle bugs which are very difficult to
trigger.

It's unlikely that we'd see noticeable performance impact by enforcing
ordering on WQ_UNBOUND / max_active == 1 workqueues.  Let's
automatically set __WQ_ORDERED for those workqueues.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reported-by: default avatarAlexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
Fixes: 4c16bd32 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
parent 74cbd96b
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