This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
padata: Remove broken queue flushing
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
padata-remove-broken-queue-flushing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 07928d9bfc81640bab36f5190e8725894d93b659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:17:31 +0800
Subject: padata: Remove broken queue flushing
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 07928d9bfc81640bab36f5190e8725894d93b659 upstream.
The function padata_flush_queues is fundamentally broken because
it cannot force padata users to complete the request that is
underway. IOW padata has to passively wait for the completion
of any outstanding work.
As it stands flushing is used in two places. Its use in padata_stop
is simply unnecessary because nothing depends on the queues to
be flushed afterwards.
The other use in padata_replace is more substantial as we depend
on it to free the old pd structure. This patch instead uses the
pd->refcnt to dynamically free the pd structure once all requests
are complete.
Fixes: 2b73b07ab8a4 ("padata: Flush the padata queues actively")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[dj: leave "pd->pinst = pinst" assignment in padata_alloc_pd()]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/padata.c | 45 ++++++++++++---------------------------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/padata.c
+++ b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
#define MAX_OBJ_NUM 1000
+static void padata_free_pd(struct parallel_data *pd);
+
static int padata_index_to_cpu(struct parallel_data *pd, int cpu_index)
{
int cpu, target_cpu;
@@ -300,6 +302,7 @@ static void padata_serial_worker(struct
struct padata_serial_queue *squeue;
struct parallel_data *pd;
LIST_HEAD(local_list);
+ int cnt;
local_bh_disable();
squeue = container_of(serial_work, struct padata_serial_queue, work);
@@ -309,6 +312,8 @@ static void padata_serial_worker(struct
list_replace_init(&squeue->serial.list, &local_list);
spin_unlock(&squeue->serial.lock);
+ cnt = 0;
+
while (!list_empty(&local_list)) {
struct padata_priv *padata;
@@ -318,9 +323,12 @@ static void padata_serial_worker(struct
list_del_init(&padata->list);
padata->serial(padata);
- atomic_dec(&pd->refcnt);
+ cnt++;
}
local_bh_enable();
+
+ if (atomic_sub_and_test(cnt, &pd->refcnt))
+ padata_free_pd(pd);
}
/**
@@ -443,7 +451,7 @@ static struct parallel_data *padata_allo
setup_timer(&pd->timer, padata_reorder_timer, (unsigned long)pd);
atomic_set(&pd->seq_nr, -1);
atomic_set(&pd->reorder_objects, 0);
- atomic_set(&pd->refcnt, 0);
+ atomic_set(&pd->refcnt, 1);
pd->pinst = pinst;
spin_lock_init(&pd->lock);
@@ -468,31 +476,6 @@ static void padata_free_pd(struct parall
kfree(pd);
}
-/* Flush all objects out of the padata queues. */
-static void padata_flush_queues(struct parallel_data *pd)
-{
- int cpu;
- struct padata_parallel_queue *pqueue;
- struct padata_serial_queue *squeue;
-
- for_each_cpu(cpu, pd->cpumask.pcpu) {
- pqueue = per_cpu_ptr(pd->pqueue, cpu);
- flush_work(&pqueue->work);
- }
-
- del_timer_sync(&pd->timer);
-
- if (atomic_read(&pd->reorder_objects))
- padata_reorder(pd);
-
- for_each_cpu(cpu, pd->cpumask.cbcpu) {
- squeue = per_cpu_ptr(pd->squeue, cpu);
- flush_work(&squeue->work);
- }
-
- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&pd->refcnt) != 0);
-}
-
static void __padata_start(struct padata_instance *pinst)
{
pinst->flags |= PADATA_INIT;
@@ -506,10 +489,6 @@ static void __padata_stop(struct padata_
pinst->flags &= ~PADATA_INIT;
synchronize_rcu();
-
- get_online_cpus();
- padata_flush_queues(pinst->pd);
- put_online_cpus();
}
/* Replace the internal control structure with a new one. */
@@ -530,8 +509,8 @@ static void padata_replace(struct padata
if (!cpumask_equal(pd_old->cpumask.cbcpu, pd_new->cpumask.cbcpu))
notification_mask |= PADATA_CPU_SERIAL;
- padata_flush_queues(pd_old);
- padata_free_pd(pd_old);
+ if (atomic_dec_and_test(&pd_old->refcnt))
+ padata_free_pd(pd_old);
if (notification_mask)
blocking_notifier_call_chain(&pinst->cpumask_change_notifier,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/padata-remove-broken-queue-flushing.patch
