This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled io_uring: use private workqueue for exit work to the 6.6-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: io_uring-use-private-workqueue-for-exit-work.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 73eaa2b583493b680c6f426531d6736c39643bfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 15:16:19 -0600 Subject: io_uring: use private workqueue for exit work From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> commit 73eaa2b583493b680c6f426531d6736c39643bfb upstream. Rather than use the system unbound event workqueue, use an io_uring specific one. This avoids dependencies with the tty, which also uses the system_unbound_wq, and issues flushes of said workqueue from inside its poll handling. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Rasmus Karlsson <rasmus.karlsson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Rasmus Karlsson <rasmus.karlsson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Iskren Chernev <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/1113 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- io_uring/io_uring.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/io_uring/io_uring.c +++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ static bool io_uring_try_cancel_requests static void io_queue_sqe(struct io_kiocb *req); struct kmem_cache *req_cachep; +static struct workqueue_struct *iou_wq __ro_after_init; static int __read_mostly sysctl_io_uring_disabled; static int __read_mostly sysctl_io_uring_group = -1; @@ -3180,7 +3181,7 @@ static __cold void io_ring_ctx_wait_and_ * noise and overhead, there's no discernable change in runtime * over using system_wq. */ - queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &ctx->exit_work); + queue_work(iou_wq, &ctx->exit_work); } static int io_uring_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) @@ -4664,6 +4665,8 @@ static int __init io_uring_init(void) offsetof(struct io_kiocb, cmd.data), sizeof_field(struct io_kiocb, cmd.data), NULL); + iou_wq = alloc_workqueue("iou_exit", WQ_UNBOUND, 64); + #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL register_sysctl_init("kernel", kernel_io_uring_disabled_table); #endif Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from axboe@xxxxxxxxx are queue-6.6/io_uring-use-private-workqueue-for-exit-work.patch queue-6.6/io_uring-kbuf-protect-io_buffer_list-teardown-with-a-reference.patch queue-6.6/io_uring-kbuf-hold-io_buffer_list-reference-over-mmap.patch queue-6.6/io_uring-kbuf-get-rid-of-lower-bgid-lists.patch queue-6.6/io_uring-kbuf-get-rid-of-bl-is_ready.patch