Star64_linux/kernel
Tejun Heo 6575820221 workqueue: perform cpu down operations from low priority cpu_notifier()
Currently, all workqueue cpu hotplug operations run off
CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE which is higher than normal notifiers.  This is to
ensure that workqueue is up and running while bringing up a CPU before
other notifiers try to use workqueue on the CPU.

Per-cpu workqueues are supposed to remain working and bound to the CPU
for normal CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers.  This holds mostly true even
with workqueue offlining running with higher priority because
workqueue CPU_DOWN_PREPARE only creates a bound trustee thread which
runs the per-cpu workqueue without concurrency management without
explicitly detaching the existing workers.

However, if the trustee needs to create new workers, it creates
unbound workers which may wander off to other CPUs while
CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers are in progress.  Furthermore, if the CPU
down is cancelled, the per-CPU workqueue may end up with workers which
aren't bound to the CPU.

While reliably reproducible with a convoluted artificial test-case
involving scheduling and flushing CPU burning work items from CPU down
notifiers, this isn't very likely to happen in the wild, and, even
when it happens, the effects are likely to be hidden by the following
successful CPU down.

Fix it by using different priorities for up and down notifiers - high
priority for up operations and low priority for down operations.

Workqueue cpu hotplug operations will soon go through further cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
2012-07-17 12:39:26 -07:00
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irq Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus' and 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-06-04 11:36:51 -07:00
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auditfilter.c
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cgroup.c cgroup: fix cgroup hierarchy umount race 2012-07-07 16:08:18 -07:00
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pid.c mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hash 2012-05-24 00:28:21 -04:00
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posix-cpu-timers.c
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ptrace.c userns: Convert ptrace, kill, set_priority permission checks to work with kuids and kgids 2012-05-03 03:28:51 -07:00
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rcutorture.c
rcutree.c rcu: Stop rcu_do_batch() from multiplexing the "count" variable 2012-06-25 12:35:25 -07:00
rcutree.h rcu: Move RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables to rcu_dynticks structure 2012-06-06 20:43:28 -07:00
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seccomp.c
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smpboot.c smpboot, idle: Fix comment mismatch over idle_threads_init() 2012-05-24 22:58:08 +02:00
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tracepoint.c
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uid16.c userns: Convert setting and getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid 2012-05-03 03:28:41 -07:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c userns: Silence silly gcc warning. 2012-05-19 15:44:40 -06:00
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utsname.c
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watchdog.c watchdog: Quiet down the boot messages 2012-06-14 12:20:50 +02:00
workqueue.c workqueue: perform cpu down operations from low priority cpu_notifier() 2012-07-17 12:39:26 -07:00
workqueue_sched.h