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  1. Dec 20, 2012
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: fix find_worker_executing_work() brekage from hashtable conversion · 023f27d3
      Tejun Heo authored
      42f8570f
      
       ("workqueue: use new hashtable implementation") incorrectly
      made busy workers hashed by the pointer value of worker instead of
      work.  This broke find_worker_executing_work() which in turn broke a
      lot of fundamental operations of workqueue - non-reentrancy and
      flushing among others.  The flush malfunction triggered warning in
      disk event code in Fengguang's automated test.
      
       write_dev_root_ (3265) used greatest stack depth: 2704 bytes left
       ------------[ cut here ]------------
       WARNING: at /c/kernel-tests/src/stable/block/genhd.c:1574 disk_clear_events+0x\
      cf/0x108()
       Hardware name: Bochs
       Modules linked in:
       Pid: 3328, comm: ata_id Not tainted 3.7.0-01930-gbff6343 #1167
       Call Trace:
        [<ffffffff810997c4>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9c
        [<ffffffff810997f7>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
        [<ffffffff816aea77>] disk_clear_events+0xcf/0x108
        [<ffffffff811bd8be>] check_disk_change+0x27/0x59
        [<ffffffff822e48e2>] cdrom_open+0x49/0x68b
        [<ffffffff81ab0291>] idecd_open+0x88/0xb7
        [<ffffffff811be58f>] __blkdev_get+0x102/0x3ec
        [<ffffffff811bea08>] blkdev_get+0x18f/0x30f
        [<ffffffff811bebfd>] blkdev_open+0x75/0x80
        [<ffffffff8118f510>] do_dentry_open+0x1ea/0x295
        [<ffffffff8118f5f0>] finish_open+0x35/0x41
        [<ffffffff8119c720>] do_last+0x878/0xa25
        [<ffffffff8119c993>] path_openat+0xc6/0x333
        [<ffffffff8119cf37>] do_filp_open+0x38/0x86
        [<ffffffff81190170>] do_sys_open+0x6c/0xf9
        [<ffffffff8119021e>] sys_open+0x21/0x23
        [<ffffffff82c1c3d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      023f27d3
  2. Dec 19, 2012
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      workqueue: consider work function when searching for busy work items · a2c1c57b
      Tejun Heo authored
      
      
      To avoid executing the same work item concurrenlty, workqueue hashes
      currently busy workers according to their current work items and looks
      up the the table when it wants to execute a new work item.  If there
      already is a worker which is executing the new work item, the new item
      is queued to the found worker so that it gets executed only after the
      current execution finishes.
      
      Unfortunately, a work item may be freed while being executed and thus
      recycled for different purposes.  If it gets recycled for a different
      work item and queued while the previous execution is still in
      progress, workqueue may make the new work item wait for the old one
      although the two aren't really related in any way.
      
      In extreme cases, this false dependency may lead to deadlock although
      it's extremely unlikely given that there aren't too many self-freeing
      work item users and they usually don't wait for other work items.
      
      To alleviate the problem, record the current work function in each
      busy worker and match it together with the work item address in
      find_worker_executing_work().  While this isn't complete, it ensures
      that unrelated work items don't interact with each other and in the
      very unlikely case where a twisted wq user triggers it, it's always
      onto itself making the culprit easy to spot.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarAndrey Isakov <andy51@gmx.ru>
      Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51701
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      a2c1c57b
    • Sasha Levin's avatar
      workqueue: use new hashtable implementation · 42f8570f
      Sasha Levin authored
      Switch workqueues to use the new hashtable implementation. This reduces the
      amount of generic unrelated code in the workqueues.
      
      This patch depends on d9b482c8
      
       ("hashtable: introduce a small and naive
      hashtable") which was merged in v3.6.
      
      Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      42f8570f
  3. Dec 18, 2012