| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.12 010/106] workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:51:54 -0700 |
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4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
commit 5c0338c68706be53b3dc472e4308961c36e4ece1 upstream.
The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply ordered execution. After NUMA affinity 4c16bd327c74 ("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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reported-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com> Fixes: 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- kernel/workqueue.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -3929,6 +3929,16 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workque struct workqueue_struct *wq; struct pool_workqueue *pwq; + /* + * Unbound && max_active == 1 used to imply ordered, which is no + * longer the case on NUMA machines due to per-node pools. While + * alloc_ordered_workqueue() is the right way to create an ordered + * workqueue, keep the previous behavior to avoid subtle breakages + * on NUMA. + */ + if ((flags & WQ_UNBOUND) && max_active == 1) + flags |= __WQ_ORDERED; + /* see the comment above the definition of WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT */ if ((flags & WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT) && wq_power_efficient) flags |= WQ_UNBOUND;
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