This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
workqueue-unbound-rebind-morphing-in-rebind_workers-should-be-atomic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 00:28:19 +0800
Subject: workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be
atomic
From: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
commit 96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27 upstream.
The compiler may compile the following code into TWO write/modify
instructions.
worker->flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND;
worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND;
so the other CPU may temporarily see worker->flags which doesn't have
either WORKER_UNBOUND or WORKER_REBIND set and perform local wakeup
prematurely.
Fix it by using single explicit assignment via ACCESS_ONCE().
Because idle workers have another WORKER_NOT_RUNNING flag, this bug
doesn't exist for them; however, update it to use the same pattern for
consistency.
tj: Applied the change to idle workers too and updated comments and
patch description a bit.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3412,14 +3412,17 @@ static int __cpuinit trustee_thread(void
for_each_busy_worker(worker, i, pos, gcwq) {
struct work_struct *rebind_work = &worker->rebind_work;
+ unsigned long worker_flags = worker->flags;
/*
* Rebind_work may race with future cpu hotplug
* operations. Use a separate flag to mark that
- * rebinding is scheduled.
+ * rebinding is scheduled. The morphing should
+ * be atomic.
*/
- worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND;
- worker->flags &= ~WORKER_ROGUE;
+ worker_flags |= WORKER_REBIND;
+ worker_flags &= ~WORKER_ROGUE;
+ ACCESS_ONCE(worker->flags) = worker_flags;
/* queue rebind_work, wq doesn't matter, use the default one */
if (test_and_set_bit(WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/workqueue-unbound-rebind-morphing-in-rebind_workers-should-be-atomic.patch
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