linux-kernel - [PATCH wq/for-4.16 2/2] workqueue: allow WQ_MEM

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2018 05:47:52 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Prateek Sood <prsood@...eaurora.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, avagin@...il.com,
        mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, sramana@...eaurora.org
Subject: [PATCH wq/for-4.16 2/2] workqueue: allow WQ_MEM_RECLAIM on early
 init workqueues

>From 40c17f75dfa9ec163478efd3f7443fd6af9992c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 05:38:37 -0800

Workqueues can be created early during boot before workqueue subsystem
in fully online - work items are queued waiting for later full
initialization.  However, early init wasn't supported for
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueues causing unnecessary annoyances for a subset
of users.  Expand early init support to include WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
workqueues.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 5baac7c..c86cc1e 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4032,7 +4032,7 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt,
 	if (alloc_and_link_pwqs(wq) < 0)
 		goto err_free_wq;
 
-	if (init_rescuer(wq) < 0)
+	if (wq_online && init_rescuer(wq) < 0)
 		goto err_destroy;
 
 	if ((wq->flags & WQ_SYSFS) && workqueue_sysfs_register(wq))
@@ -5639,6 +5639,8 @@ int __init workqueue_init(void)
 	 * archs such as power and arm64.  As per-cpu pools created
 	 * previously could be missing node hint and unbound pools NUMA
 	 * affinity, fix them up.
+	 *
+	 * Also, while iterating workqueues, create rescuers if requested.
 	 */
 	wq_numa_init();
 
@@ -5650,8 +5652,12 @@ int __init workqueue_init(void)
 		}
 	}
 
-	list_for_each_entry(wq, &workqueues, list)
+	list_for_each_entry(wq, &workqueues, list) {
 		wq_update_unbound_numa(wq, smp_processor_id(), true);
+		WARN(init_rescuer(wq),
+		     "workqueue: failed to create early rescuer for %s",
+		     wq->name);
+	}
 
 	mutex_unlock(&wq_pool_mutex);
 
-- 
2.9.5