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| author | Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2012-09-02 00:28:19 +0800 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2012-09-04 17:04:45 -0700 |
| commit | 96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27 (patch) | |
| tree | af06187bebae44b48ca8e68a639a4ddc6b0a3509 /kernel | |
| parent | 0d7614f09c1ebdbaa1599a5aba7593f147bf96ee (diff) | |
| download | lwn-96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27.tar.gz lwn-96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27.zip | |
workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic
The compiler may compile the following code into TWO write/modify
instructions.
worker->flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND;
worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND;
so the other CPU may temporarily see worker->flags which doesn't have
either WORKER_UNBOUND or WORKER_REBIND set and perform local wakeup
prematurely.
Fix it by using single explicit assignment via ACCESS_ONCE().
Because idle workers have another WORKER_NOT_RUNNING flag, this bug
doesn't exist for them; however, update it to use the same pattern for
consistency.
tj: Applied the change to idle workers too and updated comments and
patch description a bit.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 692d97628a10..c462cd60c374 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -1396,12 +1396,15 @@ retry: /* set REBIND and kick idle ones, we'll wait for these later */ for_each_worker_pool(pool, gcwq) { list_for_each_entry(worker, &pool->idle_list, entry) { + unsigned long worker_flags = worker->flags; + if (worker->flags & WORKER_REBIND) continue; - /* morph UNBOUND to REBIND */ - worker->flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND; - worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND; + /* morph UNBOUND to REBIND atomically */ + worker_flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND; + worker_flags |= WORKER_REBIND; + ACCESS_ONCE(worker->flags) = worker_flags; idle_rebind.cnt++; worker->idle_rebind = &idle_rebind; @@ -1434,10 +1437,12 @@ retry: /* rebind busy workers */ for_each_busy_worker(worker, i, pos, gcwq) { struct work_struct *rebind_work = &worker->rebind_work; + unsigned long worker_flags = worker->flags; - /* morph UNBOUND to REBIND */ - worker->flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND; - worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND; + /* morph UNBOUND to REBIND atomically */ + worker_flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND; + worker_flags |= WORKER_REBIND; + ACCESS_ONCE(worker->flags) = worker_flags; if (test_and_set_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT, work_data_bits(rebind_work))) |