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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2012-09-17 15:42:31 -0700
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-09-17 15:42:31 -0700
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parentee378aa49b594da9bda6a2c768cc5b2ad585f911 (diff)
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workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()
busy_worker_rebind_fn() didn't clear WORKER_REBIND if rebinding failed (CPU is down again). This used to be okay because the flag wasn't used for anything else. However, after 25511a477 "workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle idle workers", WORKER_REBIND is also used to command idle workers to rebind. If not cleared, the worker may confuse the next CPU_UP cycle by having REBIND spuriously set or oops / get stuck by prematurely calling idle_worker_rebind(). WARNING: at /work/os/wq/kernel/workqueue.c:1323 worker_thread+0x4cd/0x5 00() Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: test_wq(O-) Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8109039f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff810903fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff810b3f1d>] worker_thread+0x4cd/0x500 [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 ---[ end trace e977cf20f4661968 ]--- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: test_wq(O-) CPU 0 Pid: 33, comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G W O 3.6.0-rc1-work+ #3 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b3db0>] [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 RSP: 0018:ffff88001e1c9de0 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88001e633e00 RCX: 0000000000004140 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000009 RBP: ffff88001e1c9ea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88001fc8d580 R13: ffff88001fc8d590 R14: ffff88001e633e20 R15: ffff88001e1c6900 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000130e8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process kworker/1:1 (pid: 33, threadinfo ffff88001e1c8000, task ffff88001e1c6900) Stack: ffff880000000000 ffff88001e1c9e40 0000000000000001 ffff88001e1c8010 ffff88001e519c78 ffff88001e1c9e58 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001e1c6900 ffff88001fc8d340 ffff88001fc8d340 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810bc16e>] kthread+0xbe/0xd0 [<ffffffff81bd2664>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 Code: b1 00 f6 43 48 02 0f 85 91 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 89 df 48 8b 00 48 89 45 90 e8 ac f0 ff ff 3c 01 0f 85 60 01 00 00 48 8b 53 50 <8b> 02 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 02 0f 84 3b 01 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 8b RIP [<ffffffff810b3db0>] worker_thread+0x360/0x500 RSP <ffff88001e1c9de0> CR2: 0000000000000000 There was no reason to keep WORKER_REBIND on failure in the first place - WORKER_UNBOUND is guaranteed to be set in such cases preventing incorrectly activating concurrency management. Always clear WORKER_REBIND. tj: Updated comment and description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 1e1373b..b80065a 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1349,8 +1349,16 @@ static void busy_worker_rebind_fn(struct work_struct *work)
struct worker *worker = container_of(work, struct worker, rebind_work);
struct global_cwq *gcwq = worker->pool->gcwq;
- if (worker_maybe_bind_and_lock(worker))
- worker_clr_flags(worker, WORKER_REBIND);
+ worker_maybe_bind_and_lock(worker);
+
+ /*
+ * %WORKER_REBIND must be cleared even if the above binding failed;
+ * otherwise, we may confuse the next CPU_UP cycle or oops / get
+ * stuck by calling idle_worker_rebind() prematurely. If CPU went
+ * down again inbetween, %WORKER_UNBOUND would be set, so clearing
+ * %WORKER_REBIND is always safe.
+ */
+ worker_clr_flags(worker, WORKER_REBIND);
spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock);
}
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