linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] workqueues: Account unbound workqueue in a seperate list

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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:38:50 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] workqueues: Account unbound workqueue in a seperate list

The workqueues are all listed in a global list protected by a big mutex.
And this big mutex is used in apply_workqueue_attrs() as well.

Now as we plan to implement a directory to control the cpumask of
all non-ABI unbound workqueues, we want to be able to iterate over all
unbound workqueues and call apply_workqueue_attrs() for each of
them with the new cpumask.

But the risk for a deadlock is on the way: we need to iterate the list
of workqueues under wq_pool_mutex. But then apply_workqueue_attrs()
itself calls wq_pool_mutex.

The easiest solution to work around this is to keep track of unbound
workqueues in a separate list with a separate mutex.

It's not very pretty unfortunately.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Not-Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 4d230e3..ad8f727 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ struct wq_device;
 struct workqueue_struct {
 	struct list_head	pwqs;		/* WR: all pwqs of this wq */
 	struct list_head	list;		/* PL: list of all workqueues */
+	struct list_head	unbound_list;	/* PL: list of unbound workqueues */
 
 	struct mutex		mutex;		/* protects this wq */
 	int			work_color;	/* WQ: current work color */
@@ -288,9 +289,11 @@ static bool wq_numa_enabled;		/* unbound NUMA affinity enabled */
 static struct workqueue_attrs *wq_update_unbound_numa_attrs_buf;
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(wq_pool_mutex);	/* protects pools and workqueues list */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(wq_unbound_mutex);	/* protects list of unbound workqueues */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(wq_mayday_lock);	/* protects wq->maydays list */
 
 static LIST_HEAD(workqueues);		/* PL: list of all workqueues */
+static LIST_HEAD(workqueues_unbound);	/* PL: list of unbound workqueues */
 static bool workqueue_freezing;		/* PL: have wqs started freezing? */
 
 /* the per-cpu worker pools */
@@ -4263,6 +4266,12 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt,
 
 	mutex_unlock(&wq_pool_mutex);
 
+	if (wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND) {
+		mutex_lock(&wq_unbound_mutex);
+		list_add(&wq->unbound_list, &workqueues_unbound);
+		mutex_unlock(&wq_unbound_mutex);
+	}
+
 	return wq;
 
 err_free_wq:
@@ -4318,6 +4327,12 @@ void destroy_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 	list_del_init(&wq->list);
 	mutex_unlock(&wq_pool_mutex);
 
+	if (wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND) {
+		mutex_lock(&wq_unbound_mutex);
+		list_del(&wq->unbound_list);
+		mutex_unlock(&wq_unbound_mutex);
+	}
+
 	workqueue_sysfs_unregister(wq);
 
 	if (wq->rescuer) {
-- 
1.8.3.1

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