workqueue: fix flush_workqueue() vs CPU_DEAD race

Many thanks to Srivatsa Vaddagiri for the helpful discussion and for spotting
the bug in my previous attempt.

work->func() (and thus flush_workqueue()) must not use workqueue_mutex,
this leads to deadlock when CPU_DEAD does kthread_stop(). However without
this mutex held we can't detect CPU_DEAD in progress, which can move pending
works to another CPU while the dead one is not on cpu_online_map.

Change flush_workqueue() to use for_each_possible_cpu(). This means that
flush_cpu_workqueue() may hit CPU which is already dead. However in that
case

	!list_empty(&cwq->worklist) || cwq->current_work != NULL

means that CPU_DEAD in progress, it will do kthread_stop() + take_over_work()
so we can proceed and insert a barrier. We hold cwq->lock, so we are safe.

Also, add migrate_sequence incremented by take_over_work() under cwq->lock.
If take_over_work() happened before we checked this CPU, we should see the
new value after spin_unlock().

Further possible changes:

	remove CPU_DEAD handling (along with take_over_work, migrate_sequence)
	from workqueue.c. CPU_DEAD just sets cwq->please_exit_after_flush flag.

	CPU_UP_PREPARE->create_workqueue_thread() clears this flag, and creates
	the new thread if cwq->thread == NULL.

This way the workqueue/cpu-hotplug interaction is almost zero, workqueue_mutex
just protects "workqueues" list, CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE/CPU_LOCK_RELEASE go away.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index d80dbdceadb8..1d1933cf3778 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ struct workqueue_struct {
 
 /* All the per-cpu workqueues on the system, for hotplug cpu to add/remove
    threads to each one as cpus come/go. */
+static long migrate_sequence __read_mostly;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(workqueue_mutex);
 static LIST_HEAD(workqueues);
 
@@ -421,13 +422,7 @@ static void flush_cpu_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
                  * Probably keventd trying to flush its own queue. So simply run
                  * it by hand rather than deadlocking.
                  */
-                preempt_enable();
-                /*
-                 * We can still touch *cwq here because we are keventd, and
-                 * hot-unplug will be waiting us to exit.
-                 */
                 run_workqueue(cwq);
-                preempt_disable();
         } else {
                 struct wq_barrier barr;
                 int active = 0;
@@ -439,11 +434,8 @@ static void flush_cpu_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
                 }
                 spin_unlock_irq(&cwq->lock);
 
-                if (active) {
-                        preempt_enable();
+                if (active)
                         wait_for_completion(&barr.done);
-                        preempt_disable();
-                }
         }
 }
 
@@ -462,17 +454,21 @@ static void flush_cpu_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
  */
 void fastcall flush_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 {
-        preempt_disable();              /* CPU hotplug */
         if (is_single_threaded(wq)) {
                 /* Always use first cpu's area. */
                 flush_cpu_workqueue(per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, singlethread_cpu));
         } else {
+                long sequence;
                 int cpu;
+again:
+                sequence = migrate_sequence;
 
-                for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+                for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
                         flush_cpu_workqueue(per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, cpu));
+
+                if (unlikely(sequence != migrate_sequence))
+                        goto again;
         }
-        preempt_enable();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_workqueue);
 
@@ -544,17 +540,21 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_work);
 
-static struct task_struct *create_workqueue_thread(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
-                                                        int cpu)
+static void init_cpu_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq, int cpu)
 {
         struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq = per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, cpu);
-        struct task_struct *p;
 
-        spin_lock_init(&cwq->lock);
         cwq->wq = wq;
-        cwq->thread = NULL;
+        spin_lock_init(&cwq->lock);
         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cwq->worklist);
         init_waitqueue_head(&cwq->more_work);
+}
+
+static struct task_struct *create_workqueue_thread(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
+                                                        int cpu)
+{
+        struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq = per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, cpu);
+        struct task_struct *p;
 
         if (is_single_threaded(wq))
                 p = kthread_create(worker_thread, cwq, "%s", wq->name);
@@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__create_workqueue(const char *name,
         mutex_lock(&workqueue_mutex);
         if (singlethread) {
                 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wq->list);
+                init_cpu_workqueue(wq, singlethread_cpu);
                 p = create_workqueue_thread(wq, singlethread_cpu);
                 if (!p)
                         destroy = 1;
@@ -596,7 +597,11 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__create_workqueue(const char *name,
                         wake_up_process(p);
         } else {
                 list_add(&wq->list, &workqueues);
-                for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+                for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+                        init_cpu_workqueue(wq, cpu);
+                        if (!cpu_online(cpu))
+                                continue;
+
                         p = create_workqueue_thread(wq, cpu);
                         if (p) {
                                 kthread_bind(p, cpu);
@@ -831,6 +836,7 @@ static void take_over_work(struct workqueue_struct *wq, unsigned int cpu)
 
         spin_lock_irq(&cwq->lock);
         list_replace_init(&cwq->worklist, &list);
+        migrate_sequence++;
 
         while (!list_empty(&list)) {
                 printk("Taking work for %s\n", wq->name);