linux/include/linux/workqueue.h

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workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works Reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works. wq has the current work color which is painted on the works being issued via cwqs. Flushing a workqueue is achieved by advancing the current work colors of cwqs and waiting for all the works which have any of the previous colors to drain. Currently there are 16 possible colors, one is reserved for no color and 15 colors are useable allowing 14 concurrent flushes. When color space gets full, flush attempts are batched up and processed together when color frees up, so even with many concurrent flushers, the new implementation won't build up huge queue of flushers which has to be processed one after another. Only works which are queued via __queue_work() are colored. Works which are directly put on queue using insert_work() use NO_COLOR and don't participate in workqueue flushing. Currently only works used for work-specific flush fall in this category. This new implementation leaves only cleanup_workqueue_thread() as the user of flush_cpu_workqueue(). Just make its users use flush_workqueue() and kthread_stop() directly and kill cleanup_workqueue_thread(). As workqueue flushing doesn't use barrier request anymore, the comment describing the complex synchronization around it in cleanup_workqueue_thread() is removed together with the function. This new implementation is to allow having and sharing multiple workers per cpu. Please note that one more bit is reserved for a future work flag by this patch. This is to avoid shifting bits and updating comments later. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works Reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works. wq has the current work color which is painted on the works being issued via cwqs. Flushing a workqueue is achieved by advancing the current work colors of cwqs and waiting for all the works which have any of the previous colors to drain. Currently there are 16 possible colors, one is reserved for no color and 15 colors are useable allowing 14 concurrent flushes. When color space gets full, flush attempts are batched up and processed together when color frees up, so even with many concurrent flushers, the new implementation won't build up huge queue of flushers which has to be processed one after another. Only works which are queued via __queue_work() are colored. Works which are directly put on queue using insert_work() use NO_COLOR and don't participate in workqueue flushing. Currently only works used for work-specific flush fall in this category. This new implementation leaves only cleanup_workqueue_thread() as the user of flush_cpu_workqueue(). Just make its users use flush_workqueue() and kthread_stop() directly and kill cleanup_workqueue_thread(). As workqueue flushing doesn't use barrier request anymore, the comment describing the complex synchronization around it in cleanup_workqueue_thread() is removed together with the function. This new implementation is to allow having and sharing multiple workers per cpu. Please note that one more bit is reserved for a future work flag by this patch. This is to avoid shifting bits and updating comments later. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works Reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works. wq has the current work color which is painted on the works being issued via cwqs. Flushing a workqueue is achieved by advancing the current work colors of cwqs and waiting for all the works which have any of the previous colors to drain. Currently there are 16 possible colors, one is reserved for no color and 15 colors are useable allowing 14 concurrent flushes. When color space gets full, flush attempts are batched up and processed together when color frees up, so even with many concurrent flushers, the new implementation won't build up huge queue of flushers which has to be processed one after another. Only works which are queued via __queue_work() are colored. Works which are directly put on queue using insert_work() use NO_COLOR and don't participate in workqueue flushing. Currently only works used for work-specific flush fall in this category. This new implementation leaves only cleanup_workqueue_thread() as the user of flush_cpu_workqueue(). Just make its users use flush_workqueue() and kthread_stop() directly and kill cleanup_workqueue_thread(). As workqueue flushing doesn't use barrier request anymore, the comment describing the complex synchronization around it in cleanup_workqueue_thread() is removed together with the function. This new implementation is to allow having and sharing multiple workers per cpu. Please note that one more bit is reserved for a future work flag by this patch. This is to avoid shifting bits and updating comments later. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works Reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works. wq has the current work color which is painted on the works being issued via cwqs. Flushing a workqueue is achieved by advancing the current work colors of cwqs and waiting for all the works which have any of the previous colors to drain. Currently there are 16 possible colors, one is reserved for no color and 15 colors are useable allowing 14 concurrent flushes. When color space gets full, flush attempts are batched up and processed together when color frees up, so even with many concurrent flushers, the new implementation won't build up huge queue of flushers which has to be processed one after another. Only works which are queued via __queue_work() are colored. Works which are directly put on queue using insert_work() use NO_COLOR and don't participate in workqueue flushing. Currently only works used for work-specific flush fall in this category. This new implementation leaves only cleanup_workqueue_thread() as the user of flush_cpu_workqueue(). Just make its users use flush_workqueue() and kthread_stop() directly and kill cleanup_workqueue_thread(). As workqueue flushing doesn't use barrier request anymore, the comment describing the complex synchronization around it in cleanup_workqueue_thread() is removed together with the function. This new implementation is to allow having and sharing multiple workers per cpu. Please note that one more bit is reserved for a future work flag by this patch. This is to avoid shifting bits and updating comments later. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-06-29 10:07:11 +02:00
workqueue: mark a work item being canceled as such There can be two reasons try_to_grab_pending() can fail with -EAGAIN. One is when someone else is queueing or deqeueing the work item. With the previous patches, it is guaranteed that PENDING and queued state will soon agree making it safe to busy-retry in this case. The other is if multiple __cancel_work_timer() invocations are racing one another. __cancel_work_timer() grabs PENDING and then waits for running instances of the target work item on all CPUs while holding PENDING and !queued. try_to_grab_pending() invoked from another task will keep returning -EAGAIN while the current owner is waiting. Not distinguishing the two cases is okay because __cancel_work_timer() is the only user of try_to_grab_pending() and it invokes wait_on_work() whenever grabbing fails. For the first case, busy looping should be fine but wait_on_work() doesn't cause any critical problem. For the latter case, the new contender usually waits for the same condition as the current owner, so no unnecessarily extended busy-looping happens. Combined, these make __cancel_work_timer() technically correct even without irq protection while grabbing PENDING or distinguishing the two different cases. While the current code is technically correct, not distinguishing the two cases makes it difficult to use try_to_grab_pending() for other purposes than canceling because it's impossible to tell whether it's safe to busy-retry grabbing. This patch adds a mechanism to mark a work item being canceled. try_to_grab_pending() now disables irq on success and returns -EAGAIN to indicate that grabbing failed but PENDING and queued states are gonna agree soon and it's safe to busy-loop. It returns -ENOENT if the work item is being canceled and it may stay PENDING && !queued for arbitrary amount of time. __cancel_work_timer() is modified to mark the work canceling with WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING after grabbing PENDING, thus making try_to_grab_pending() fail with -ENOENT instead of -EAGAIN. Also, it invokes wait_on_work() iff grabbing failed with -ENOENT. This isn't necessary for correctness but makes it consistent with other future users of try_to_grab_pending(). v2: try_to_grab_pending() was testing preempt_count() to ensure that the caller has disabled preemption. This triggers spuriously if !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT. Use preemptible() instead. Reported by Fengguang Wu. v3: Updated so that try_to_grab_pending() disables irq on success rather than requiring preemption disabled by the caller. This makes busy-looping easier and will allow try_to_grap_pending() to be used from bh/irq contexts. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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workqueue: mark a work item being canceled as such There can be two reasons try_to_grab_pending() can fail with -EAGAIN. One is when someone else is queueing or deqeueing the work item. With the previous patches, it is guaranteed that PENDING and queued state will soon agree making it safe to busy-retry in this case. The other is if multiple __cancel_work_timer() invocations are racing one another. __cancel_work_timer() grabs PENDING and then waits for running instances of the target work item on all CPUs while holding PENDING and !queued. try_to_grab_pending() invoked from another task will keep returning -EAGAIN while the current owner is waiting. Not distinguishing the two cases is okay because __cancel_work_timer() is the only user of try_to_grab_pending() and it invokes wait_on_work() whenever grabbing fails. For the first case, busy looping should be fine but wait_on_work() doesn't cause any critical problem. For the latter case, the new contender usually waits for the same condition as the current owner, so no unnecessarily extended busy-looping happens. Combined, these make __cancel_work_timer() technically correct even without irq protection while grabbing PENDING or distinguishing the two different cases. While the current code is technically correct, not distinguishing the two cases makes it difficult to use try_to_grab_pending() for other purposes than canceling because it's impossible to tell whether it's safe to busy-retry grabbing. This patch adds a mechanism to mark a work item being canceled. try_to_grab_pending() now disables irq on success and returns -EAGAIN to indicate that grabbing failed but PENDING and queued states are gonna agree soon and it's safe to busy-loop. It returns -ENOENT if the work item is being canceled and it may stay PENDING && !queued for arbitrary amount of time. __cancel_work_timer() is modified to mark the work canceling with WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING after grabbing PENDING, thus making try_to_grab_pending() fail with -ENOENT instead of -EAGAIN. Also, it invokes wait_on_work() iff grabbing failed with -ENOENT. This isn't necessary for correctness but makes it consistent with other future users of try_to_grab_pending(). v2: try_to_grab_pending() was testing preempt_count() to ensure that the caller has disabled preemption. This triggers spuriously if !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT. Use preemptible() instead. Reported by Fengguang Wu. v3: Updated so that try_to_grab_pending() disables irq on success rather than requiring preemption disabled by the caller. This makes busy-looping easier and will allow try_to_grap_pending() to be used from bh/irq contexts. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker task One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG() and friends. This patch implements set_worker_desc() which can be called from any workqueue work function to set its description. When the worker task is dumped for whatever reason - sysrq-t, WARN, BUG, oops, lockdep assertion and so on - the description will be printed out together with the workqueue name and the worker function pointer. The printing side is implemented by print_worker_info() which is called from functions in task dump paths - sched_show_task() and dump_stack_print_info(). print_worker_info() can be safely called on any task in any state as long as the task struct itself is accessible. It uses probe_*() functions to access worker fields. It may print garbage if something went very wrong, but it wouldn't cause (another) oops. The description is currently limited to 24bytes including the terminating \0. worker->desc_valid and workder->desc[] are added and the 64 bytes marker which was already incorrect before adding the new fields is moved to the correct position. Here's an example dump with writeback updated to set the bdi name as worker desc. Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: Pid: 7, comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #1 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:0) ffffffff820a3ab0 ffff88000f6e9cb8 ffffffff81c61845 ffff88000f6e9cf8 ffffffff8108f50f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000cde16b0 ffff88000cde1aa8 ffff88001ee19240 ffff88000f6e9fd8 ffff88000f6e9d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61845>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff81200150>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2a0/0x3b0 ... Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 15:27:22 -07:00
workqueue: add delayed_work->wq to simplify reentrancy handling To avoid executing the same work item from multiple CPUs concurrently, a work_struct records the last pool it was on in its ->data so that, on the next queueing, the pool can be queried to determine whether the work item is still executing or not. A delayed_work goes through timer before actually being queued on the target workqueue and the timer needs to know the target workqueue and CPU. This is currently achieved by modifying delayed_work->work.data such that it points to the cwq which points to the target workqueue and the last CPU the work item was on. __queue_delayed_work() extracts the last CPU from delayed_work->work.data and then combines it with the target workqueue to create new work.data. The only thing this rather ugly hack achieves is encoding the target workqueue into delayed_work->work.data without using a separate field, which could be a trade off one can make; unfortunately, this entangles work->data management between regular workqueue and delayed_work code by setting cwq pointer before the work item is actually queued and becomes a hindrance for further improvements of work->data handling. This can be easily made sane by adding a target workqueue field to delayed_work. While delayed_work is used widely in the kernel and this does make it a bit larger (<5%), I think this is the right trade-off especially given the prospect of much saner handling of work->data which currently involves quite tricky memory barrier dancing, and don't expect to see any measureable effect. Add delayed_work->wq and drop the delayed_work->work.data overloading. tj: Rewrote the description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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workqueue: include workqueue info when printing debug dump of a worker task One of the problems that arise when converting dedicated custom threadpool to workqueue is that the shared worker pool used by workqueue anonimizes each worker making it more difficult to identify what the worker was doing on which target from the output of sysrq-t or debug dump from oops, BUG() and friends. This patch implements set_worker_desc() which can be called from any workqueue work function to set its description. When the worker task is dumped for whatever reason - sysrq-t, WARN, BUG, oops, lockdep assertion and so on - the description will be printed out together with the workqueue name and the worker function pointer. The printing side is implemented by print_worker_info() which is called from functions in task dump paths - sched_show_task() and dump_stack_print_info(). print_worker_info() can be safely called on any task in any state as long as the task struct itself is accessible. It uses probe_*() functions to access worker fields. It may print garbage if something went very wrong, but it wouldn't cause (another) oops. The description is currently limited to 24bytes including the terminating \0. worker->desc_valid and workder->desc[] are added and the 64 bytes marker which was already incorrect before adding the new fields is moved to the correct position. Here's an example dump with writeback updated to set the bdi name as worker desc. Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: Pid: 7, comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #1 Workqueue: writeback bdi_writeback_workfn (flush-8:0) ffffffff820a3ab0 ffff88000f6e9cb8 ffffffff81c61845 ffff88000f6e9cf8 ffffffff8108f50f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88000cde16b0 ffff88000cde1aa8 ffff88001ee19240 ffff88000f6e9fd8 ffff88000f6e9d08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81c61845>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8108f50f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8108f56a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff81200150>] bdi_writeback_workfn+0x2a0/0x3b0 ... Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 15:27:22 -07:00
workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync() flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious. Mark them deprecated and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work(). If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to use the sync flushes at all and they're going away. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync() flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious. Mark them deprecated and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work(). If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to use the sync flushes at all and they're going away. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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