This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable
to the 3.18-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:
workqueue-implicit-ordered-attribute-should-be-overridable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 08:36:15 -0400
Subject: workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.
5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1. Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.
This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/workqueue.h | 4 +++-
kernel/workqueue.c | 13 +++++++++----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ enum {
__WQ_DRAINING = 1 << 16, /* internal: workqueue is draining */
__WQ_ORDERED = 1 << 17, /* internal: workqueue is ordered */
+ __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT = 1 << 18, /* internal: alloc_ordered_workqueue() */
WQ_MAX_ACTIVE = 512, /* I like 512, better ideas? */
WQ_MAX_UNBOUND_PER_CPU = 4, /* 4 * #cpus for unbound wq */
@@ -412,7 +413,8 @@ __alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, u
* Pointer to the allocated workqueue on success, %NULL on failure.
*/
#define alloc_ordered_workqueue(fmt, flags, args...) \
- alloc_workqueue(fmt, WQ_UNBOUND | __WQ_ORDERED | (flags), 1, ##args)
+ alloc_workqueue(fmt, WQ_UNBOUND | __WQ_ORDERED | \
+ __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT | (flags), 1, ##args)
#define create_workqueue(name) \
alloc_workqueue("%s", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1, (name))
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3255,7 +3255,7 @@ int workqueue_sysfs_register(struct work
* attributes breaks ordering guarantee. Disallow exposing ordered
* workqueues.
*/
- if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED))
+ if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT))
return -EINVAL;
wq->wq_dev = wq_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*wq_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -3830,8 +3830,12 @@ int apply_workqueue_attrs(struct workque
return -EINVAL;
/* creating multiple pwqs breaks ordering guarantee */
- if (WARN_ON((wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED) && !list_empty(&wq->pwqs)))
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (!list_empty(&wq->pwqs)) {
+ if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ wq->flags &= ~__WQ_ORDERED;
+ }
pwq_tbl = kzalloc(nr_node_ids * sizeof(pwq_tbl[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
new_attrs = alloc_workqueue_attrs(GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -4277,13 +4281,14 @@ void workqueue_set_max_active(struct wor
struct pool_workqueue *pwq;
/* disallow meddling with max_active for ordered workqueues */
- if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED))
+ if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT))
return;
max_active = wq_clamp_max_active(max_active, wq->flags, wq->name);
mutex_lock(&wq->mutex);
+ wq->flags &= ~__WQ_ORDERED;
wq->saved_max_active = max_active;
for_each_pwq(pwq, wq)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/workqueue-implicit-ordered-attribute-should-be-overridable.patch
queue-3.18/workqueue-restore-wq_unbound-max_active-1-to-be-ordered.patch
queue-3.18/libata-array-underflow-in-ata_find_dev.patch