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Rusty Russell
8ccad40df8 work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.
Impact: remove potential clashes with generic kevent workqueue

Annoyingly, some places we want to use work_on_cpu are already in
workqueues.  As per Ingo's suggestion, we create a different workqueue
for work_on_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-19 22:36:07 +01:00
Rusty Russell
31ad908120 work_on_cpu: don't try to get_online_cpus() in work_on_cpu.
Impact: remove potential circular lock dependency with cpu hotplug lock

This has caused more problems than it solved, with a pile of cpu
hotplug locking issues.

Followup patches will get_online_cpus() in callers that need it, but
if they don't do it they're no worse than before when they were using
set_cpus_allowed without locking.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-19 22:36:02 +01:00
Rusty Russell
e7577c50f2 cpumask: convert kernel/workqueue.c
Impact: Reduce memory usage, use new cpumask API.

cpu_populated_map becomes a cpumask_var_t, and cpu_singlethread_map is
simply a cpumask pointer: it's simply the cpumask containing the first
possible CPU anyway.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:25 +10:30
James Morris
2b82892565 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	security/keys/internal.h
	security/keys/process_keys.c
	security/keys/request_key.c

Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 11:29:12 +11:00
David Howells
6cc88bc45c CRED: Rename is_single_threaded() to is_wq_single_threaded()
Rename is_single_threaded() to is_wq_single_threaded() so that a new
is_single_threaded() can be created that refers to tasks rather than
waitqueues.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:21 +11:00
Rusty Russell
2d3854a37e cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
Impact: introduce new APIs

We want to deprecate cpumasks on the stack, as we are headed for
gynormous numbers of CPUs.  Eventually, we want to head towards an
undefined 'struct cpumask' so they can never be declared on stack.

1) New cpumask functions which take pointers instead of copies.
   (cpus_* -> cpumask_*)

2) Several new helpers to reduce requirements for temporary cpumasks
   (cpumask_first_and, cpumask_next_and, cpumask_any_and)

3) Helpers for declaring cpumasks on or offstack for large NR_CPUS
   (cpumask_var_t, alloc_cpumask_var and free_cpumask_var)

4) 'struct cpumask' for explicitness and to mark new-style code.

5) Make iterator functions stop at nr_cpu_ids (a runtime constant),
   not NR_CPUS for time efficiency and for smaller dynamic allocations
   in future.

6) cpumask_copy() so we can allocate less than a full cpumask eventually
   (for alloc_cpumask_var), and so we can eliminate the 'struct cpumask'
   definition eventually.

7) work_on_cpu() helper for doing task on a CPU, rather than saving old
   cpumask for current thread and manipulating it.

8) smp_call_function_many() which is smp_call_function_mask() except
   taking a cpumask pointer.

Note that this patch simply introduces the new functions and leaves
the obsolescent ones in place.  This is to simplify the transition
patches.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 09:05:33 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
0d557dc97f workqueue: introduce create_rt_workqueue
create_rt_workqueue will create a real time prioritized workqueue.
This is needed for the conversion of stop_machine to a workqueue based
implementation.
This patch adds yet another parameter to __create_workqueue_key to tell
it that we want an rt workqueue.
However it looks like we rather should have something like "int type"
instead of singlethread, freezable and rt.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-22 10:00:25 +11:00
Francois Cami
e1f8e87449 Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts
People can use the real name an an index into MAINTAINERS to find the
current email address.

Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
23a0ee908c Merge branch 'core/locking' into core/urgent 2008-08-12 00:11:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3295f0ef9f lockdep: rename map_[acquire|release]() => lock_map_[acquire|release]()
the names were too generic:

 drivers/uio/uio.c:87: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'do'
 drivers/uio/uio.c:87: error: expected identifier or '(' before 'while'
 drivers/uio/uio.c:113: error: 'map_release' undeclared here (not in a function)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 10:30:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4f3e7524b2 lockdep: map_acquire
Most the free-standing lock_acquire() usages look remarkably similar, sweep
them into a new helper.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 09:30:23 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
6af8bf3d86 workqueues: add comments to __create_workqueue_key()
Dmitry Adamushko pointed out that the error handling in
__create_workqueue_key() is not clear, add the comment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:47 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
8448502cfc workqueues: do CPU_UP_CANCELED if CPU_UP_PREPARE fails
The bug was pointed out by Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>, and this
patch is based on his original patch.

workqueue_cpu_callback(CPU_UP_PREPARE) expects that if it returns
NOTIFY_BAD, _cpu_up() will send CPU_UP_CANCELED then.

However, this is not true since

	"cpu hotplug: cpu: deliver CPU_UP_CANCELED only to NOTIFY_OKed callbacks with CPU_UP_PREPARE"
	commit: a0d8cdb652

The callback which has returned NOTIFY_BAD will not receive
CPU_UP_CANCELED.  Change the code to fulfil the CPU_UP_CANCELED logic if
CPU_UP_PREPARE fails.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Reported-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:41 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
8de6d308ba workqueues: schedule_on_each_cpu() can use schedule_work_on()
schedule_on_each_cpu() can use schedule_work_on() to avoid the code
duplication.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
ef1ca236b8 workqueues: queue_work() can use queue_work_on()
queue_work() can use queue_work_on() to avoid the code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
a67da70dc0 workqueues: lockdep annotations for flush_work()
Add lockdep annotations to flush_work() and update the comment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3da1c84c00 workqueues: make get_online_cpus() useable for work->func()
workqueue_cpu_callback(CPU_DEAD) flushes cwq->thread under
cpu_maps_update_begin().  This means that the multithreaded workqueues
can't use get_online_cpus() due to the possible deadlock, very bad and
very old problem.

Introduce the new state, CPU_POST_DEAD, which is called after
cpu_hotplug_done() but before cpu_maps_update_done().

Change workqueue_cpu_callback() to use CPU_POST_DEAD instead of CPU_DEAD.
This means that create/destroy functions can't rely on get_online_cpus()
any longer and should take cpu_add_remove_lock instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SMP=n]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
8616a89ab7 workqueues: schedule_on_each_cpu: use flush_work()
Change schedule_on_each_cpu() to use flush_work() instead of
flush_workqueue(), this way we don't wait for other work_struct's which
can be queued meanwhile.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
db70089722 workqueues: implement flush_work()
Most of users of flush_workqueue() can be changed to use cancel_work_sync(),
but sometimes we really need to wait for the completion and cancelling is not
an option. schedule_on_each_cpu() is good example.

Add the new helper, flush_work(work), which waits for the completion of the
specific work_struct. More precisely, it "flushes" the result of of the last
queue_work() which is visible to the caller.

For example, this code

	queue_work(wq, work);
	/* WINDOW */
	queue_work(wq, work);

	flush_work(work);

doesn't necessary work "as expected". What can happen in the WINDOW above is

	- wq starts the execution of work->func()

	- the caller migrates to another CPU

now, after the 2nd queue_work() this work is active on the previous CPU, and
at the same time it is queued on another. In this case flush_work(work) may
return before the first work->func() completes.

It is trivial to add another helper

	int flush_work_sync(struct work_struct *work)
	{
		return flush_work(work) || wait_on_work(work);
	}

which works "more correctly", but it has to iterate over all CPUs and thus
it much slower than flush_work().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
1a4d9b0aa0 workqueues: insert_work: use "list_head *" instead of "int tail"
insert_work() inserts the new work_struct before or after cwq->worklist,
depending on the "int tail" parameter. Change it to accept "list_head *"
instead, this shrinks .text a bit and allows us to insert the barrier
after specific work_struct.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:40 -07:00
Zhang Rui
c1a220e7ac pm: introduce new interfaces schedule_work_on() and queue_work_on()
This interface allows adding a job on a specific cpu.

Although a work struct on a cpu will be scheduled to other cpu if the cpu
dies, there is a recursion if a work task tries to offline the cpu it's
running on.  we need to schedule the task to a specific cpu in this case.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10897

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Rus <harbour@sfinx.od.ua>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:23 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
68083e05d7 Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
cde5353599 Christoph has moved
Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will
become invalid on June 27th.  Change my maintainer email address for the
slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email
address for the future).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
Mike Travis
363ab6f142 core: use performance variant for_each_cpu_mask_nr
Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate

Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 18:35:12 +02:00
Andrew Liu
8a3e77cc21 workqueue: remove redundant function invocation
timer_stats_timer_set_start_info is invoked twice, additionally, the
invocation of this function can be moved to where it is only called when a
delay is really required.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Liu <shengping.liu@windriver.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
af1f16d08f kernel: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
1e35eaa2d8 cleanup_workqueue_thread: remove the unneeded "cpu" parameter
cleanup_workqueue_thread() doesn't need the second argument, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:11 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
00dfcaf748 workqueues: shrink cpu_populated_map when CPU dies
When cpu_populated_map was introduced, it was supposed that cwq->thread can
survive after CPU_DEAD, that is why we never shrink cpu_populated_map.

This is not very nice, we can safely remove the already dead CPU from the map.
 The only required change is that destroy_workqueue() must hold the hotplug
lock until it destroys all cwq->thread's, to protect the cpu_populated_map.
We could make the local copy of cpu mask and drop the lock, but
sizeof(cpumask_t) may be very large.

Also, fix the comment near queue_work().  Unless _cpu_down() happens we do
guarantee the cpu-affinity of the work_struct, and we have users which rely on
this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair comment]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:11 -07:00
Pavel Machek
d59b949f77 timer_list: add annotations to workqueue.c
Add timer list annotations to workqueue.c so we can see the call site
in the timer stats.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <Pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 12:22:30 +02:00
Li Zefan
6d141c3ff6 workqueue: make delayed_work_timer_fn() static
delayed_work_timer_fn() is a timer function, make it static.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:37 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
7ad5b3a505 kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/*
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Gautham R Shenoy
95402b3829 cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus()
This patch converts the known per-subsystem mutexes to get_online_cpus
put_online_cpus. It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and
CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug notification events.

Signed-off-by: Gautham  R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
Johannes Berg
eb13ba8738 lockdep: fix workqueue creation API lockdep interaction
Dave Young reported warnings from lockdep that the workqueue API
can sometimes try to register lockdep classes with the same key
but different names. This is not permitted in lockdep.

Unfortunately, I was unaware of that restriction when I wrote
the code to debug workqueue problems with lockdep and used the
workqueue name as the lockdep class name. This can obviously
lead to the problem if the workqueue name is dynamic.

This patch solves the problem by always using a constant name
for the workqueue's lockdep class, namely either the constant
name that was passed in or a string consisting of the variable
name.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2008-01-16 09:51:58 +01:00
Pavel Emelyanov
ba25f9dcc4 Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.

The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Johannes Berg
4e6045f134 workqueue: debug flushing deadlocks with lockdep
In the following scenario:

code path 1:
  my_function() -> lock(L1); ...; flush_workqueue(); ...

code path 2:
  run_workqueue() -> my_work() -> ...; lock(L1); ...

you can get a deadlock when my_work() is queued or running
but my_function() has acquired L1 already.

This patch adds a pseudo-lock to each workqueue to make lockdep
warn about this scenario.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:38 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
d243769d3f fix bogus hotplug cpu warning
Fix bogus DEBUG_PREEMPT warning on x86_64, when cpu brought online after
bootup: current_is_keventd is right to note its use of smp_processor_id
is preempt-safe, but should use raw_smp_processor_id to avoid the warning.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-27 10:27:48 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
13c22168b7 destroy_workqueue() can livelock
Pointed out by Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>.

The bug was introduced in 2.6.22 by me.

cleanup_workqueue_thread() does flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq) in a loop until
->worklist becomes empty.  This is live-lockable, a re-niced caller can get
CPU after wake_up() and insert a new barrier before the lower-priority
cwq->thread has a chance to clear ->current_work.

Change cleanup_workqueue_thread() to do flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq) only once.
 We can rely on the fact that run_workqueue() won't return until it flushes
all works.  So it is safe to call kthread_stop() after that, the "should
stop" request won't be noticed until run_workqueue() returns.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
1f1f642e2f make cancel_xxx_work_sync() return a boolean
Change cancel_work_sync() and cancel_delayed_work_sync() to return a boolean
indicating whether the work was actually cancelled.  A zero return value means
that the work was not pending/queued.

Without that kind of change it is not possible to avoid flush_workqueue()
sometimes, see the next patch as an example.

Also, this patch unifies both functions and kills the (unlikely) busy-wait
loop.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
f5a421a450 rename cancel_rearming_delayed_work() to cancel_delayed_work_sync()
Imho, the current naming of cancel_xxx workqueue functions is very confusing.

	cancel_delayed_work()
	cancel_rearming_delayed_work()
	cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue()	// obsolete

	cancel_work_sync()

This looks as if the first 2 functions differ in "type" of their argument
which is not true any longer, nowadays the difference is the behaviour.

The semantics of cancel_rearming_delayed_work(dwork) was changed
significantly, it doesn't require that dwork rearms itself, and cancels dwork
synchronously.

Rename it to cancel_delayed_work_sync().  This matches cancel_delayed_work()
and cancel_work_sync().  Re-create cancel_rearming_delayed_work() as a simple
inline obsolete wrapper, like cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
14441960e8 simplify cleanup_workqueue_thread()
cleanup_workqueue_thread() and cwq_should_stop() are overcomplicated.

Convert the code to use kthread_should_stop/kthread_stop as was
suggested by Gautham and Srivatsa.

In particular this patch removes the (unlikely) busy-wait loop from the
exit path, it was a temporary and ugly kludge (if not a bug).

Note: the current code was designed to solve another old problem:
work->func can't share locks with hotplug callbacks.  I think this could
be done, see

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116905366428633

but this needs some more complications to preserve CPU affinity of
cwq->thread during cpu_up().  A freezer-based hotplug looks more
appealing.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make it more tolerant of gcc borkenness]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Zilvinas Valinskas <zilvinas@wilibox.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
8bb7844286 Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:56 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
6e84d644b5 make cancel_rearming_delayed_work() reliable
Thanks to Jarek Poplawski for the ideas and for spotting the bug in the
initial draft patch.

cancel_rearming_delayed_work() currently has many limitations, because it
requires that dwork always re-arms itself via queue_delayed_work().  So it
hangs forever if dwork doesn't do this, or cancel_rearming_delayed_work/
cancel_delayed_work was already called.  It uses flush_workqueue() in a
loop, so it can't be used if workqueue was freezed, and it is potentially
live- lockable on busy system if delay is small.

With this patch cancel_rearming_delayed_work() doesn't make any assumptions
about dwork, it can re-arm itself via queue_delayed_work(), or
queue_work(), or do nothing.

As a "side effect", cancel_work_sync() was changed to handle re-arming works
as well.

Disadvantages:

	- this patch adds wmb() to insert_work().

	- slowdowns the fast path (when del_timer() succeeds on entry) of
	  cancel_rearming_delayed_work(), because wait_on_work() is called
	  unconditionally. In that case, compared to the old version, we are
	  doing "unneeded" lock/unlock for each online CPU.

	  On the other hand, this means we don't need to use cancel_work_sync()
	  after cancel_rearming_delayed_work().

	- complicates the code (.text grows by 130 bytes).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix speling]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
5de18d1697 worker_thread: don't play with SIGCHLD and numa policy
worker_thread() inherits ignored SIGCHLD and numa_default_policy() from its
parent, kthreadd.  No need to setup this again.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
28e53bddf8 unify flush_work/flush_work_keventd and rename it to cancel_work_sync
flush_work(wq, work) doesn't need the first parameter, we can use cwq->wq
(this was possible from the very beginnig, I missed this).  So we can unify
flush_work_keventd and flush_work.

Also, rename flush_work() to cancel_work_sync() and fix all callers.
Perhaps this is not the best name, but "flush_work" is really bad.

(akpm: this is why the earlier patches bypassed maintainers)

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
85f4186af9 worker_thread: fix racy try_to_freeze() usage
worker_thread() can miss freeze_process()->signal_wake_up() if it happens
between try_to_freeze() and prepare_to_wait().  We should check freezing()
before entering schedule().

This race was introduced by me in

	[PATCH 1/1] workqueue: don't migrate pending works from the dead CPU

Looks like mm/vmscan.c:kswapd() has the same race.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
b9aac8e0d3 worker_thread: don't play with signals
worker_thread() doesn't need to "Block and flush all signals", this was
already done by its caller, kthread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
23b2e5991a workqueue: kill NOAUTOREL works
We don't have any users, and it is not so trivial to use NOAUTOREL works
correctly.  It is better to simplify API.

Delete NOAUTOREL support and rename work_release to work_clear_pending to
avoid a confusion.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:52 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
1634c48f8b make cancel_rearming_delayed_work() work on any workqueue, not just keventd_wq
cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(wq, dwork) doesn't need the first
parameter.  We don't hang on un-queued dwork any longer, and work->data
doesn't change its type.  This means we can always figure out "wq" from
dwork when it is needed.

Remove this parameter, and rename the function to
cancel_rearming_delayed_work().  Re-create an inline "obsolete"
cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue(wq) which just calls
cancel_rearming_delayed_work().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:52 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
a848e3b67c workqueue: introduce wq_per_cpu() helper
Cleanup.  A number of per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, cpu) users have to check that
cpu is valid for this wq.  Make a simple helper.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:52 -07:00