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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/2] fix flush_workqueue() vs CPU_DEAD race
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:10:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061230161031.GA101@tv-sign.ru> (raw)

"[PATCH 1/2] reimplement flush_workqueue()" fixed one race when CPU goes down
while flush_cpu_workqueue() plays with it. But there is another problem, CPU
can die before flush_workqueue() has a chance to call flush_cpu_workqueue().
In that case pending work_structs can migrate to CPU which was already checked,
so we should redo the "for_each_online_cpu(cpu)" loop.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- mm-6.20-rc2/kernel/workqueue.c~3_race	2006-12-29 18:37:31.000000000 +0300
+++ mm-6.20-rc2/kernel/workqueue.c	2006-12-30 18:09:07.000000000 +0300
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ 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 hotplug_sequence __read_mostly;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(workqueue_mutex);
 static LIST_HEAD(workqueues);
 
@@ -454,10 +455,16 @@ void fastcall flush_workqueue(struct wor
 		/* Always use first cpu's area. */
 		flush_cpu_workqueue(per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, singlethread_cpu));
 	} else {
+		long sequence;
 		int cpu;
+again:
+		sequence = hotplug_sequence;
 
 		for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 			flush_cpu_workqueue(per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, cpu));
+
+		if (unlikely(sequence != hotplug_sequence))
+			goto again;
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&workqueue_mutex);
 }
@@ -874,6 +881,7 @@ static int __devinit workqueue_cpu_callb
 			cleanup_workqueue_thread(wq, hotcpu);
 		list_for_each_entry(wq, &workqueues, list)
 			take_over_work(wq, hotcpu);
+		hotplug_sequence++;
 		break;
 
 	case CPU_LOCK_RELEASE:


             reply	other threads:[~2006-12-30 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-30 16:10 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2007-01-03  0:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-03 14:04   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-01-03 15:17     ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-01-03 17:26       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-01-04  4:30         ` Gautham R Shenoy

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