linux.git/kernel/workqueue.c, branch v4.4.250 Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git workqueue: Fix missing kfree(rescuer) in destroy_workqueue() 2019-12-21T09:35:37+00:00 Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org 2019-09-20T20:39:57+00:00 af99d946e62911801fea31bcec3957f8944fcc8c commit 8efe1223d73c218ce7e8b2e0e9aadb974b582d7f upstream. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Fixes: def98c84b6cd ("workqueue: Fix spurious sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()") Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 8efe1223d73c218ce7e8b2e0e9aadb974b582d7f upstream.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Fixes: def98c84b6cd ("workqueue: Fix spurious sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()")
Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: Fix pwq ref leak in rescuer_thread() 2019-12-21T09:35:23+00:00 Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org 2019-09-25T13:59:15+00:00 182589e427191a543823e8fdc02653636ac04d52 commit e66b39af00f426b3356b96433d620cb3367ba1ff upstream. 008847f66c3 ("workqueue: allow rescuer thread to do more work.") made the rescuer worker requeue the pwq immediately if there may be more work items which need rescuing instead of waiting for the next mayday timer expiration. Unfortunately, it doesn't check whether the pwq is already on the mayday list and unconditionally gets the ref and moves it onto the list. This doesn't corrupt the list but creates an additional reference to the pwq. It got queued twice but will only be removed once. This leak later can trigger pwq refcnt warning on workqueue destruction and prevent freeing of the workqueue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Williams, Gerald S" <gerald.s.williams@intel.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit e66b39af00f426b3356b96433d620cb3367ba1ff upstream.

008847f66c3 ("workqueue: allow rescuer thread to do more work.") made
the rescuer worker requeue the pwq immediately if there may be more
work items which need rescuing instead of waiting for the next mayday
timer expiration.  Unfortunately, it doesn't check whether the pwq is
already on the mayday list and unconditionally gets the ref and moves
it onto the list.  This doesn't corrupt the list but creates an
additional reference to the pwq.  It got queued twice but will only be
removed once.

This leak later can trigger pwq refcnt warning on workqueue
destruction and prevent freeing of the workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Williams, Gerald S" <gerald.s.williams@intel.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: Fix spurious sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue() 2019-12-21T09:35:22+00:00 Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org 2019-09-19T01:43:40+00:00 8d68d0346f441c293268a0cbd91807a9c2fd5dc4 commit def98c84b6cdf2eeea19ec5736e90e316df5206b upstream. Before actually destrying a workqueue, destroy_workqueue() checks whether it's actually idle. If it isn't, it prints out a bunch of warning messages and leaves the workqueue dangling. It unfortunately has a couple issues. * Mayday list queueing increments pwq's refcnts which gets detected as busy and fails the sanity checks. However, because mayday list queueing is asynchronous, this condition can happen without any actual work items left in the workqueue. * Sanity check failure leaves the sysfs interface behind too which can lead to init failure of newer instances of the workqueue. This patch fixes the above two by * If a workqueue has a rescuer, disable and kill the rescuer before sanity checks. Disabling and killing is guaranteed to flush the existing mayday list. * Remove sysfs interface before sanity checks. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Marcin Pawlowski <mpawlowski@fb.com> Reported-by: "Williams, Gerald S" <gerald.s.williams@intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit def98c84b6cdf2eeea19ec5736e90e316df5206b upstream.

Before actually destrying a workqueue, destroy_workqueue() checks
whether it's actually idle.  If it isn't, it prints out a bunch of
warning messages and leaves the workqueue dangling.  It unfortunately
has a couple issues.

* Mayday list queueing increments pwq's refcnts which gets detected as
  busy and fails the sanity checks.  However, because mayday list
  queueing is asynchronous, this condition can happen without any
  actual work items left in the workqueue.

* Sanity check failure leaves the sysfs interface behind too which can
  lead to init failure of newer instances of the workqueue.

This patch fixes the above two by

* If a workqueue has a rescuer, disable and kill the rescuer before
  sanity checks.  Disabling and killing is guaranteed to flush the
  existing mayday list.

* Remove sysfs interface before sanity checks.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Marcin Pawlowski <mpawlowski@fb.com>
Reported-by: "Williams, Gerald S" <gerald.s.williams@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: use put_device() instead of kfree() 2018-05-30T05:49:04+00:00 Arvind Yadav arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com 2018-03-06T10:05:43+00:00 b29cfb8ae0a309b99251bb1286012ac5d77ce2e5 [ Upstream commit 537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1 ] Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized in this function instead. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit 537f4146c53c95aac977852b371bafb9c6755ee1 ]

Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized in this function instead.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: Allow retrieval of current task's work struct 2018-03-18T10:17:48+00:00 Lukas Wunner lukas@wunner.de 2018-02-11T09:38:28+00:00 e235f151a39b3af6d357c21f290087df7639580b commit 27d4ee03078aba88c5e07dcc4917e8d01d046f38 upstream. Introduce a helper to retrieve the current task's work struct if it is a workqueue worker. This allows us to fix a long-standing deadlock in several DRM drivers wherein the ->runtime_suspend callback waits for a specific worker to finish and that worker in turn calls a function which waits for runtime suspend to finish. That function is invoked from multiple call sites and waiting for runtime suspend to finish is the correct thing to do except if it's executing in the context of the worker. Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/2d8f603074131eb87e588d2b803a71765bd3a2fd.1518338788.git.lukas@wunner.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 27d4ee03078aba88c5e07dcc4917e8d01d046f38 upstream.

Introduce a helper to retrieve the current task's work struct if it is
a workqueue worker.

This allows us to fix a long-standing deadlock in several DRM drivers
wherein the ->runtime_suspend callback waits for a specific worker to
finish and that worker in turn calls a function which waits for runtime
suspend to finish.  That function is invoked from multiple call sites
and waiting for runtime suspend to finish is the correct thing to do
except if it's executing in the context of the worker.

Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/2d8f603074131eb87e588d2b803a71765bd3a2fd.1518338788.git.lukas@wunner.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: trigger WARN if queue_delayed_work() is called with NULL @wq 2017-12-16T09:33:52+00:00 Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org 2017-03-06T20:33:42+00:00 d9d47a6d6862df5536837b43407d3b527cad5090 [ Upstream commit 637fdbae60d6cb9f6e963c1079d7e0445c86ff7d ] If queue_delayed_work() gets called with NULL @wq, the kernel will oops asynchronuosly on timer expiration which isn't too helpful in tracking down the offender. This actually happened with smc. __queue_delayed_work() already does several input sanity checks synchronously. Add NULL @wq check. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170227171439.jshx3qplflyrgcv7@codemonkey.org.uk Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit 637fdbae60d6cb9f6e963c1079d7e0445c86ff7d ]

If queue_delayed_work() gets called with NULL @wq, the kernel will
oops asynchronuosly on timer expiration which isn't too helpful in
tracking down the offender.  This actually happened with smc.

__queue_delayed_work() already does several input sanity checks
synchronously.  Add NULL @wq check.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170227171439.jshx3qplflyrgcv7@codemonkey.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: replace pool->manager_arb mutex with a flag 2017-11-02T08:40:48+00:00 Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org 2017-10-09T15:04:13+00:00 fce67b31c7cd5a6599fe9cf1b2c398b8f2b874cb commit 692b48258dda7c302e777d7d5f4217244478f1f6 upstream. Josef reported a HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected by lockdep: [ 1270.472259] WARNING: HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected [ 1270.472783] 4.14.0-rc1-xfstests-12888-g76833e8 #110 Not tainted [ 1270.473240] ----------------------------------------------------- [ 1270.473710] kworker/u5:2/5157 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire: [ 1270.474239] (&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8da253d2>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xa2/0x280 [ 1270.474994] [ 1270.474994] and this task is already holding: [ 1270.475440] (&pool->lock/1){-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff8d2992f6>] worker_thread+0x366/0x3c0 [ 1270.476046] which would create a new lock dependency: [ 1270.476436] (&pool->lock/1){-.-.} -> (&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock){+.+.} [ 1270.476949] [ 1270.476949] but this new dependency connects a HARDIRQ-irq-safe lock: [ 1270.477553] (&pool->lock/1){-.-.} ... [ 1270.488900] to a HARDIRQ-irq-unsafe lock: [ 1270.489327] (&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock){+.+.} ... [ 1270.494735] Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario: [ 1270.494735] [ 1270.495250] CPU0 CPU1 [ 1270.495600] ---- ---- [ 1270.495947] lock(&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock); [ 1270.496295] local_irq_disable(); [ 1270.496753] lock(&pool->lock/1); [ 1270.497205] lock(&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock); [ 1270.497744] <Interrupt> [ 1270.497948] lock(&pool->lock/1); , which will cause a irq inversion deadlock if the above lock scenario happens. The root cause of this safe -> unsafe lock order is the mutex_unlock(pool->manager_arb) in manage_workers() with pool->lock held. Unlocking mutex while holding an irq spinlock was never safe and this problem has been around forever but it never got noticed because the only time the mutex is usually trylocked while holding irqlock making actual failures very unlikely and lockdep annotation missed the condition until the recent b9c16a0e1f73 ("locking/mutex: Fix lockdep_assert_held() fail"). Using mutex for pool->manager_arb has always been a bit of stretch. It primarily is an mechanism to arbitrate managership between workers which can easily be done with a pool flag. The only reason it became a mutex is that pool destruction path wants to exclude parallel managing operations. This patch replaces the mutex with a new pool flag POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE and make the destruction path wait for the current manager on a wait queue. v2: Drop unnecessary flag clearing before pool destruction as suggested by Boqun. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 692b48258dda7c302e777d7d5f4217244478f1f6 upstream.

Josef reported a HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected by
lockdep:

 [ 1270.472259] WARNING: HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
 [ 1270.472783] 4.14.0-rc1-xfstests-12888-g76833e8 #110 Not tainted
 [ 1270.473240] -----------------------------------------------------
 [ 1270.473710] kworker/u5:2/5157 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire:
 [ 1270.474239]  (&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8da253d2>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xa2/0x280
 [ 1270.474994]
 [ 1270.474994] and this task is already holding:
 [ 1270.475440]  (&pool->lock/1){-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff8d2992f6>] worker_thread+0x366/0x3c0
 [ 1270.476046] which would create a new lock dependency:
 [ 1270.476436]  (&pool->lock/1){-.-.} -> (&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock){+.+.}
 [ 1270.476949]
 [ 1270.476949] but this new dependency connects a HARDIRQ-irq-safe lock:
 [ 1270.477553]  (&pool->lock/1){-.-.}
 ...
 [ 1270.488900] to a HARDIRQ-irq-unsafe lock:
 [ 1270.489327]  (&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock){+.+.}
 ...
 [ 1270.494735]  Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:
 [ 1270.494735]
 [ 1270.495250]        CPU0                    CPU1
 [ 1270.495600]        ----                    ----
 [ 1270.495947]   lock(&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock);
 [ 1270.496295]                                local_irq_disable();
 [ 1270.496753]                                lock(&pool->lock/1);
 [ 1270.497205]                                lock(&(&lock->wait_lock)->rlock);
 [ 1270.497744]   <Interrupt>
 [ 1270.497948]     lock(&pool->lock/1);

, which will cause a irq inversion deadlock if the above lock scenario
happens.

The root cause of this safe -> unsafe lock order is the
mutex_unlock(pool->manager_arb) in manage_workers() with pool->lock
held.

Unlocking mutex while holding an irq spinlock was never safe and this
problem has been around forever but it never got noticed because the
only time the mutex is usually trylocked while holding irqlock making
actual failures very unlikely and lockdep annotation missed the
condition until the recent b9c16a0e1f73 ("locking/mutex: Fix
lockdep_assert_held() fail").

Using mutex for pool->manager_arb has always been a bit of stretch.
It primarily is an mechanism to arbitrate managership between workers
which can easily be done with a pool flag.  The only reason it became
a mutex is that pool destruction path wants to exclude parallel
managing operations.

This patch replaces the mutex with a new pool flag POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE
and make the destruction path wait for the current manager on a wait
queue.

v2: Drop unnecessary flag clearing before pool destruction as
    suggested by Boqun.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable 2017-08-11T16:09:00+00:00 Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org 2017-07-23T12:36:15+00:00 34a08ae493f1970d5ce80dd3812b8dba4e5cbe22 commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream. 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound workqueues w/ max_active == 1. Because ordered workqueues reject max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active == 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes. This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and overrides from attribute changes if implict. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered") Cc: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.

5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1.  Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.

This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered 2017-08-11T16:08:46+00:00 Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org 2017-07-18T22:41:52+00:00 c59eec4dad4a95f6da1b8ea688e361416869e42d commit 5c0338c68706be53b3dc472e4308961c36e4ece1 upstream. The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply ordered execution. After NUMA affinity 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues"), this is no longer true due to per-node worker pools. While the right way to create an ordered workqueue is alloc_ordered_workqueue(), the documentation has been misleading for a long time and people do use WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 for ordered workqueues which can lead to subtle bugs which are very difficult to trigger. It's unlikely that we'd see noticeable performance impact by enforcing ordering on WQ_UNBOUND / max_active == 1 workqueues. Let's automatically set __WQ_ORDERED for those workqueues. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Reported-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com> Fixes: 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 5c0338c68706be53b3dc472e4308961c36e4ece1 upstream.

The combination of WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 used to imply
ordered execution.  After NUMA affinity 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue:
implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues"), this is no longer
true due to per-node worker pools.

While the right way to create an ordered workqueue is
alloc_ordered_workqueue(), the documentation has been misleading for a
long time and people do use WQ_UNBOUND and max_active == 1 for ordered
workqueues which can lead to subtle bugs which are very difficult to
trigger.

It's unlikely that we'd see noticeable performance impact by enforcing
ordering on WQ_UNBOUND / max_active == 1 workqueues.  Let's
automatically set __WQ_ORDERED for those workqueues.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@purestorage.com>
Fixes: 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
workqueue: fix rebind bound workers warning 2016-05-19T00:06:50+00:00 Wanpeng Li wanpeng.li@hotmail.com 2016-05-11T09:55:18+00:00 cf73d8ad76e4555a45ee399887b7c0361354d10f commit f7c17d26f43d5cc1b7a6b896cd2fa24a079739b9 upstream. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at kernel/workqueue.c:4559 rebind_workers+0x1c0/0x1d0 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 16 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc4+ #31 Hardware name: IBM IBM System x3550 M4 Server -[7914IUW]-/00Y8603, BIOS -[D7E128FUS-1.40]- 07/23/2013 0000000000000000 ffff881037babb58 ffffffff8139d885 0000000000000010 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff881037babba8 ffffffff8108505d ffff881037ba0000 000011cf3e7d6e60 0000000000000046 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x89/0xd4 __warn+0xfd/0x120 warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20 rebind_workers+0x1c0/0x1d0 workqueue_cpu_up_callback+0xf5/0x1d0 notifier_call_chain+0x64/0x90 ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf2/0x220 ? notify_prepare+0x80/0x80 __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10 __cpu_notify+0x35/0x50 notify_down_prepare+0x5e/0x80 ? notify_prepare+0x80/0x80 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x73/0x330 ? __schedule+0x33e/0x8a0 cpuhp_down_callbacks+0x51/0xc0 cpuhp_thread_fun+0xc1/0xf0 smpboot_thread_fn+0x159/0x2a0 ? smpboot_create_threads+0x80/0x80 kthread+0xef/0x110 ? wait_for_completion+0xf0/0x120 ? schedule_tail+0x35/0xf0 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x50 ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70 ---[ end trace eb12ae47d2382d8f ]--- notify_down_prepare: attempt to take down CPU 0 failed This bug can be reproduced by below config w/ nohz_full= all cpus: CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0=y CONFIG_DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0=y CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y As Thomas pointed out: | If a down prepare callback fails, then DOWN_FAILED is invoked for all | callbacks which have successfully executed DOWN_PREPARE. | | But, workqueue has actually two notifiers. One which handles | UP/DOWN_FAILED/ONLINE and one which handles DOWN_PREPARE. | | Now look at the priorities of those callbacks: | | CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_UP = 5 | CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_DOWN = -5 | | So the call order on DOWN_PREPARE is: | | CB 1 | CB ... | CB workqueue_up() -> Ignores DOWN_PREPARE | CB ... | CB X ---> Fails | | So we call up to CB X with DOWN_FAILED | | CB 1 | CB ... | CB workqueue_up() -> Handles DOWN_FAILED | CB ... | CB X-1 | | So the problem is that the workqueue stuff handles DOWN_FAILED in the up | callback, while it should do it in the down callback. Which is not a good idea | either because it wants to be called early on rollback... | | Brilliant stuff, isn't it? The hotplug rework will solve this problem because | the callbacks become symetric, but for the existing mess, we need some | workaround in the workqueue code. The boot CPU handles housekeeping duty(unbound timers, workqueues, timekeeping, ...) on behalf of full dynticks CPUs. It must remain online when nohz full is enabled. There is a priority set to every notifier_blocks: workqueue_cpu_up > tick_nohz_cpu_down > workqueue_cpu_down So tick_nohz_cpu_down callback failed when down prepare cpu 0, and notifier_blocks behind tick_nohz_cpu_down will not be called any more, which leads to workers are actually not unbound. Then hotplug state machine will fallback to undo and online cpu 0 again. Workers will be rebound unconditionally even if they are not unbound and trigger the warning in this progress. This patch fix it by catching !DISASSOCIATED to avoid rebind bound workers. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit f7c17d26f43d5cc1b7a6b896cd2fa24a079739b9 upstream.

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at kernel/workqueue.c:4559 rebind_workers+0x1c0/0x1d0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 16 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc4+ #31
Hardware name: IBM IBM System x3550 M4 Server -[7914IUW]-/00Y8603, BIOS -[D7E128FUS-1.40]- 07/23/2013
 0000000000000000 ffff881037babb58 ffffffff8139d885 0000000000000010
 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff881037babba8
 ffffffff8108505d ffff881037ba0000 000011cf3e7d6e60 0000000000000046
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x89/0xd4
 __warn+0xfd/0x120
 warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
 rebind_workers+0x1c0/0x1d0
 workqueue_cpu_up_callback+0xf5/0x1d0
 notifier_call_chain+0x64/0x90
 ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xf2/0x220
 ? notify_prepare+0x80/0x80
 __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
 __cpu_notify+0x35/0x50
 notify_down_prepare+0x5e/0x80
 ? notify_prepare+0x80/0x80
 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x73/0x330
 ? __schedule+0x33e/0x8a0
 cpuhp_down_callbacks+0x51/0xc0
 cpuhp_thread_fun+0xc1/0xf0
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x159/0x2a0
 ? smpboot_create_threads+0x80/0x80
 kthread+0xef/0x110
 ? wait_for_completion+0xf0/0x120
 ? schedule_tail+0x35/0xf0
 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x50
 ? __init_kthread_worker+0x70/0x70
---[ end trace eb12ae47d2382d8f ]---
notify_down_prepare: attempt to take down CPU 0 failed

This bug can be reproduced by below config w/ nohz_full= all cpus:

CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0=y
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y

As Thomas pointed out:

| If a down prepare callback fails, then DOWN_FAILED is invoked for all
| callbacks which have successfully executed DOWN_PREPARE.
|
| But, workqueue has actually two notifiers. One which handles
| UP/DOWN_FAILED/ONLINE and one which handles DOWN_PREPARE.
|
| Now look at the priorities of those callbacks:
|
| CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_UP        = 5
| CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_DOWN      = -5
|
| So the call order on DOWN_PREPARE is:
|
| CB 1
| CB ...
| CB workqueue_up() -> Ignores DOWN_PREPARE
| CB ...
| CB X ---> Fails
|
| So we call up to CB X with DOWN_FAILED
|
| CB 1
| CB ...
| CB workqueue_up() -> Handles DOWN_FAILED
| CB ...
| CB X-1
|
| So the problem is that the workqueue stuff handles DOWN_FAILED in the up
| callback, while it should do it in the down callback. Which is not a good idea
| either because it wants to be called early on rollback...
|
| Brilliant stuff, isn't it? The hotplug rework will solve this problem because
| the callbacks become symetric, but for the existing mess, we need some
| workaround in the workqueue code.

The boot CPU handles housekeeping duty(unbound timers, workqueues,
timekeeping, ...) on behalf of full dynticks CPUs. It must remain
online when nohz full is enabled. There is a priority set to every
notifier_blocks:

workqueue_cpu_up > tick_nohz_cpu_down > workqueue_cpu_down

So tick_nohz_cpu_down callback failed when down prepare cpu 0, and
notifier_blocks behind tick_nohz_cpu_down will not be called any
more, which leads to workers are actually not unbound. Then hotplug
state machine will fallback to undo and online cpu 0 again. Workers
will be rebound unconditionally even if they are not unbound and
trigger the warning in this progress.

This patch fix it by catching !DISASSOCIATED to avoid rebind bound
workers.

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>