>From 23657bb192f14b789e4c478def8f11ecc95b4f6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:08:19 -0700
Any operation which clears PENDING should be preceded by a wmb to
guarantee that the next PENDING owner sees all the changes made before
PENDING release.
There are only two places where PENDING is cleared -
set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending() and clear_work_data(). The caller of
the former already does smp_wmb() but the latter doesn't have any.
Move the wmb above set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending() into it and add
one to clear_work_data().
There hasn't been any report related to this issue, and, given how
clear_work_data() is used, it is extremely unlikely to have caused any
actual problems on any architecture.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
---
Fix for another theoretical wmb problem. Will push through
wq/for-3.7.
Thanks.
kernel/workqueue.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 11723c5..4fef952 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -570,11 +570,19 @@ static void set_work_cwq(struct work_struct *work,
static void set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending(struct work_struct *work,
unsigned int cpu)
{
+ /*
+ * The following wmb is paired with the implied mb in
+ * test_and_set_bit(PENDING) and ensures all updates to @work made
+ * here are visible to and precede any updates by the next PENDING
+ * owner.
+ */
+ smp_wmb();
set_work_data(work, (unsigned long)cpu << WORK_OFFQ_CPU_SHIFT, 0);
}
static void clear_work_data(struct work_struct *work)
{
+ smp_wmb(); /* see set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending() */
set_work_data(work, WORK_STRUCT_NO_CPU, 0);
}
@@ -2182,14 +2190,11 @@ __acquires(&gcwq->lock)
wake_up_worker(pool);
/*
- * Record the last CPU and clear PENDING. The following wmb is
- * paired with the implied mb in test_and_set_bit(PENDING) and
- * ensures all updates to @work made here are visible to and
- * precede any updates by the next PENDING owner. Also, clear
- * PENDING inside @gcwq->lock so that PENDING and queued state
- * changes happen together while IRQ is disabled.
+ * Record the last CPU and clear PENDING which should be the last
+ * update to @work. Also, do this inside @gcwq->lock so that
+ * PENDING and queued state changes happen together while IRQ is
+ * disabled.
*/
- smp_wmb();
set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending(work, gcwq->cpu);
spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock);
--
1.7.7.3
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