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From: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] workqueue: Add warnings and ensure one among WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND is present
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 18:01:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260528160159.471265-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260528160159.471265-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com>

Currently there are no checks in order to enforce the use of WQ_PERCPU and
avoid this flag is used if WQ_UNBOUND is already present.

So act as following:
- if neither of them is present, set WQ_PERCPU
- if both are present, remove WQ_PERCPU

Along with this change, print a warning, so that the code still uses both or
neither of them, can be changed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 0b55f8009eed..3e52956ce661 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5826,7 +5826,7 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue(const char *fmt,
 
 	/* see the comment above the definition of WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT */
 	if ((flags & WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT) && wq_power_efficient)
-		flags |= WQ_UNBOUND;
+		flags = (flags & ~WQ_PERCPU) | WQ_UNBOUND;
 
 	/* allocate wq and format name */
 	if (flags & WQ_UNBOUND)
@@ -5850,6 +5850,23 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *__alloc_workqueue(const char *fmt,
 		pr_warn_once("workqueue: name exceeds WQ_NAME_LEN. Truncating to: %s\n",
 			     wq->name);
 
+	/*
+	 * One among WQ_PERCPU and WQ_UNBOUND must be set, but not both.
+	 * - If neither is set, default to WQ_PERCPU
+	 * - If both are set, default to WQ_UNBOUND
+	 *
+	 * This code can be removed after workqueue are unbound by default
+	 */
+	if (!(flags & (WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_PERCPU))) {
+		pr_warn_ratelimited("workqueue: %s is using neither WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND. "
+			"Setting WQ_PERCPU.\n", wq->name);
+		flags |= WQ_PERCPU;
+	} else if((flags & WQ_PERCPU) && (flags & WQ_UNBOUND)) {
+		pr_warn_ratelimited("workqueue: %s uses both WQ_PERCPU and WQ_UNBOUND. "
+			"Dropped WQ_PERCPU, keeping WQ_UNBOUND.\n", wq->name);
+		flags &= (~WQ_PERCPU);
+	}
+
 	if (flags & WQ_BH) {
 		/*
 		 * BH workqueues always share a single execution context per CPU
-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-28 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-28 16:01 [PATCH v3 0/2] workqueue: Add warnings and check WQ flags usage Marco Crivellari
2026-05-28 16:01 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] workqueue: Add warnings and fallback if system_{unbound}_wq is used Marco Crivellari
2026-05-28 16:18   ` Breno Leitao
2026-05-29  8:30     ` Marco Crivellari
2026-05-28 16:01 ` Marco Crivellari [this message]
2026-05-28 16:25   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] workqueue: Add warnings and ensure one among WQ_PERCPU or WQ_UNBOUND is present Tejun Heo
2026-05-29  8:48     ` Marco Crivellari

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