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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-05-14 15:04:50 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-06-01 15:12:56 +0800
commit935055856458a05c43f518bf9ed406f67c090f0a (patch)
tree3cde458e723b77008d8dc041de6632458f4cba58 /kernel
parentbfd6d6af769c5cd62aa9ed75b038ea3d234b090b (diff)
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workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active
commit 544ecf310f0e7f51fa057ac2a295fc1b3b35a9d3 upstream. worker_enter_idle() has WARN_ON_ONCE() which triggers if nr_running isn't zero when every worker is idle. This can trigger spuriously while a cpu is going down due to the way trustee sets %WORKER_ROGUE and zaps nr_running. It first sets %WORKER_ROGUE on all workers without updating nr_running, releases gcwq->lock, schedules, regrabs gcwq->lock and then zaps nr_running. If the last running worker enters idle inbetween, it would see stale nr_running which hasn't been zapped yet and trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE(). Fix it by performing the sanity check iff the trustee is idle. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 1456daba9a08..ee1845b8d690 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1214,8 +1214,13 @@ static void worker_enter_idle(struct worker *worker)
} else
wake_up_all(&gcwq->trustee_wait);
- /* sanity check nr_running */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(gcwq->nr_workers == gcwq->nr_idle &&
+ /*
+ * Sanity check nr_running. Because trustee releases gcwq->lock
+ * between setting %WORKER_ROGUE and zapping nr_running, the
+ * warning may trigger spuriously. Check iff trustee is idle.
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(gcwq->trustee_state == TRUSTEE_DONE &&
+ gcwq->nr_workers == gcwq->nr_idle &&
atomic_read(get_gcwq_nr_running(gcwq->cpu)));
}