linux-kernel - [PATCH] workqueue: Override implicit ordered attribute in workqueue_apply_unbound

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Message-Id: <20231011024842.3348767-1-longman@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:48:42 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: Override implicit ordered attribute in workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask()

Commit 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1
to be ordered") enabled implicit ordered attribute to be added to
WQ_UNBOUND workqueues with max_active of 1. This prevented the changing
of attributes to these workqueues leading to fix commit 0a94efb5acbb
("workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable").

However, workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask() was not updated at that time.
So sysfs changes to wq_unbound_cpumask has no effect on WQ_UNBOUND
workqueues with implicit ordered attribute. Since not all WQ_UNBOUND
workqueues are visible on sysfs, we are not able to make all the
necessary cpumask changes even if we iterates all the workqueue cpumasks
in sysfs and changing them one by one.

Fix this problem by applying the corresponding change made
to apply_workqueue_attrs_locked() in the fix commit to
workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask().

Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index d141bd8eb2b7..19d403aa41b0 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5785,9 +5785,13 @@ static int workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask(const cpumask_var_t unbound_cpumask)
 	list_for_each_entry(wq, &workqueues, list) {
 		if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND))
 			continue;
+
 		/* creating multiple pwqs breaks ordering guarantee */
-		if (wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED)
-			continue;
+		if (!list_empty(&wq->pwqs)) {
+			if (wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT)
+				continue;
+			wq->flags &= ~__WQ_ORDERED;
+		}

 		ctx = apply_wqattrs_prepare(wq, wq->unbound_attrs, unbound_cpumask);
 		if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
-- 
2.39.3