This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
workqueue: apply __WQ_ORDERED to create_singlethread_workqueue()
to the 3.16-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-apply-__wq_ordered-to-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e09c2c295468476a239d13324ce9042ec4de05eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 04:14:30 +0900
Subject: workqueue: apply __WQ_ORDERED to create_singlethread_workqueue()
From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit e09c2c295468476a239d13324ce9042ec4de05eb upstream.
create_singlethread_workqueue() is a compat interface for single
threaded workqueue which maps to ordered workqueue w/ rescuer in the
current implementation. create_singlethread_workqueue() currently
implemented by invoking alloc_workqueue() w/ appropriate parameters.
8719dceae2f9 ("workqueue: reject adjusting max_active or applying
attrs to ordered workqueues") introduced __WQ_ORDERED to protect
ordered workqueues against dynamic attribute changes which can break
ordering guarantees but forgot to apply it to
create_singlethread_workqueue(). This in itself is okay as nobody
currently uses dynamic attribute change on workqueues created with
create_singlethread_workqueue().
However, 4c16bd327c ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound
workqueues") broke singlethreaded guarantee for ordered workqueues
through allocating a separate pool_workqueue on each NUMA node by
default. A later change 8a2b75384444 ("workqueue: fix ordered
workqueues in NUMA setups") fixed it by allocating only one global
pool_workqueue if __WQ_ORDERED is set.
Combined, the __WQ_ORDERED omission in create_singlethread_workqueue()
became critical breaking its single threadedness and ordering
guarantee.
Let's make create_singlethread_workqueue() wrap
alloc_ordered_workqueue() instead so that it inherits __WQ_ORDERED and
can implicitly track future ordered_workqueue changes.
v2: I missed that __WQ_ORDERED now protects against pwq splitting
across NUMA nodes and incorrectly described the patch as a
nice-to-have fix to protect against future dynamic attribute
usages. Oleg pointed out that this is actually a critical
breakage due to 8a2b75384444 ("workqueue: fix ordered workqueues
in NUMA setups").
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Mike Anderson <mike.anderson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <onestero@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gduarte@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 4c16bd327c ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/workqueue.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ __alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, u
alloc_workqueue("%s", WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, \
1, (name))
#define create_singlethread_workqueue(name) \
- alloc_workqueue("%s", WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1, (name))
+ alloc_ordered_workqueue("%s", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, name)
extern void destroy_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/cgroup-check-cgroup-liveliness-before-unbreaking-kernfs.patch
queue-3.16/ahci-add-device-ids-for-intel-9-series-pch.patch
queue-3.16/libata-widen-crucial-m550-blacklist-matching.patch
queue-3.16/cgroup-fix-unbalanced-locking.patch
queue-3.16/cgroup-reject-cgroup-names-with-n.patch
queue-3.16/cgroup-delay-the-clearing-of-cgrp-kn-priv.patch
queue-3.16/ahci-add-pcid-for-marvel-0x9182-controller.patch
queue-3.16/pata_scc-propagate-return-value-of-scc_wait_after_reset.patch
queue-3.16/workqueue-apply-__wq_ordered-to-create_singlethread_workqueue.patch
queue-3.16/cfq-iosched-fix-wrong-children_weight-calculation.patch
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