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workqueue: fix ordered workqueues in NUMA setups
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An ordered workqueue implements execution ordering by using single
pool_workqueue with max_active == 1.  On a given pool_workqueue, work
items are processed in FIFO order and limiting max_active to 1
enforces the queued work items to be processed one by one.

Unfortunately, 4c16bd3 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for
unbound workqueues") accidentally broke this guarantee by applying
NUMA affinity to ordered workqueues too.  On NUMA setups, an ordered
workqueue would end up with separate pool_workqueues for different
nodes.  Each pool_workqueue still limits max_active to 1 but multiple
work items may be executed concurrently and out of order depending on
which node they are queued to.

Fix it by using dedicated ordered_wq_attrs[] when creating ordered
workqueues.  The new attrs match the unbound ones except that no_numa
is always set thus forcing all NUMA nodes to share the default
pool_workqueue.

While at it, add sanity check in workqueue creation path which
verifies that an ordered workqueues has only the default
pool_workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Tejun Heo committed Nov 22, 2013
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24 changes: 22 additions & 2 deletions kernel/workqueue.c
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Expand Up @@ -305,6 +305,9 @@ static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(unbound_pool_hash, UNBOUND_POOL_HASH_ORDER);
/* I: attributes used when instantiating standard unbound pools on demand */
static struct workqueue_attrs *unbound_std_wq_attrs[NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS];

/* I: attributes used when instantiating ordered pools on demand */
static struct workqueue_attrs *ordered_wq_attrs[NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS];

struct workqueue_struct *system_wq __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(system_wq);
struct workqueue_struct *system_highpri_wq __read_mostly;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4107,7 +4110,7 @@ static void wq_update_unbound_numa(struct workqueue_struct *wq, int cpu,
static int alloc_and_link_pwqs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
{
bool highpri = wq->flags & WQ_HIGHPRI;
int cpu;
int cpu, ret;

if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND)) {
wq->cpu_pwqs = alloc_percpu(struct pool_workqueue);
Expand All @@ -4127,6 +4130,13 @@ static int alloc_and_link_pwqs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex);
}
return 0;
} else if (wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED) {
ret = apply_workqueue_attrs(wq, ordered_wq_attrs[highpri]);
/* there should only be single pwq for ordering guarantee */
WARN(!ret && (wq->pwqs.next != &wq->dfl_pwq->pwqs_node ||
wq->pwqs.prev != &wq->dfl_pwq->pwqs_node),
"ordering guarantee broken for workqueue %s\n", wq->name);
return ret;
} else {
return apply_workqueue_attrs(wq, unbound_std_wq_attrs[highpri]);
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -5052,13 +5062,23 @@ static int __init init_workqueues(void)
}
}

/* create default unbound wq attrs */
/* create default unbound and ordered wq attrs */
for (i = 0; i < NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS; i++) {
struct workqueue_attrs *attrs;

BUG_ON(!(attrs = alloc_workqueue_attrs(GFP_KERNEL)));
attrs->nice = std_nice[i];
unbound_std_wq_attrs[i] = attrs;

/*
* An ordered wq should have only one pwq as ordering is
* guaranteed by max_active which is enforced by pwqs.
* Turn off NUMA so that dfl_pwq is used for all nodes.
*/
BUG_ON(!(attrs = alloc_workqueue_attrs(GFP_KERNEL)));
attrs->nice = std_nice[i];
attrs->no_numa = true;
ordered_wq_attrs[i] = attrs;
}

system_wq = alloc_workqueue("events", 0, 0);
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