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workqueue: Don't hold any lock while rcuwait'ing for !POOL_MANAGER_AC…
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put_unbound_pool() currently passes wq_manager_inactive() as exit condition
to rcuwait_wait_event(), which grabs pool->lock to check for

  pool->flags & POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE

A later patch will require destroy_worker() to be invoked with
wq_pool_attach_mutex held, which needs to be acquired before
pool->lock. A mutex cannot be acquired within rcuwait_wait_event(), as
it could clobber the task state set by rcuwait_wait_event()

Instead, restructure the waiting logic to acquire any necessary lock
outside of rcuwait_wait_event().

Since further work cannot be inserted into unbound pwqs that have reached
->refcnt==0, this is bound to make forward progress as eventually the
worklist will be drained and need_more_worker(pool) will remain false,
preventing any worker from stealing the manager position from us.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Valentin Schneider authored and Tejun Heo committed Jan 12, 2023
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36 changes: 19 additions & 17 deletions kernel/workqueue.c
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Expand Up @@ -3608,18 +3608,6 @@ static void rcu_free_pool(struct rcu_head *rcu)
kfree(pool);
}

/* This returns with the lock held on success (pool manager is inactive). */
static bool wq_manager_inactive(struct worker_pool *pool)
{
raw_spin_lock_irq(&pool->lock);

if (pool->flags & POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE) {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);
return false;
}
return true;
}

/**
* put_unbound_pool - put a worker_pool
* @pool: worker_pool to put
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3655,12 +3643,26 @@ static void put_unbound_pool(struct worker_pool *pool)
* Become the manager and destroy all workers. This prevents
* @pool's workers from blocking on attach_mutex. We're the last
* manager and @pool gets freed with the flag set.
* Because of how wq_manager_inactive() works, we will hold the
* spinlock after a successful wait.
*
* Having a concurrent manager is quite unlikely to happen as we can
* only get here with
* pwq->refcnt == pool->refcnt == 0
* which implies no work queued to the pool, which implies no worker can
* become the manager. However a worker could have taken the role of
* manager before the refcnts dropped to 0, since maybe_create_worker()
* drops pool->lock
*/
rcuwait_wait_event(&manager_wait, wq_manager_inactive(pool),
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
pool->flags |= POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE;
while (true) {
rcuwait_wait_event(&manager_wait,
!(pool->flags & POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE),
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
raw_spin_lock_irq(&pool->lock);
if (!(pool->flags & POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE)) {
pool->flags |= POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE;
break;
}
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);
}

while ((worker = first_idle_worker(pool)))
destroy_worker(worker);
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