From 3217ab97f14c5c8f9f975ed8c40c351164b0b10e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vitaliy Gusev Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:50:35 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] kthread: Don't looking for a task in create_kthread() #2 Remove the unnecessary find_task_by_pid_ns(). kthread() can just use "current" to get the same result. Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Gusev Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/kthread.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 84bbadd4d02..c013bf000ce 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create) /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */ __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + create->result = current; complete(&create->started); schedule(); @@ -101,9 +102,6 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create) } else { struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 }; wait_for_completion(&create->started); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - create->result = find_task_by_pid_ns(pid, &init_pid_ns); - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); /* * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask. * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties. From 1c99315bb36b5d776210546d438ca928dc9b1f22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:50:36 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] kthread: move sched-realeted initialization from kthreadd context kthreadd is the single thread which implements ths "create" request, move sched_setscheduler/etc from create_kthread() to kthread_create() to improve the scalability. We should be careful with sched_setscheduler(), use _nochek helper. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Vitaliy Gusev Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/kthread.c | 22 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index c013bf000ce..4ebaf8519ab 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -97,19 +97,10 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create) /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */ pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD); - if (pid < 0) { + if (pid < 0) create->result = ERR_PTR(pid); - } else { - struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 }; + else wait_for_completion(&create->started); - /* - * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask. - * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties. - */ - sched_setscheduler(create->result, SCHED_NORMAL, ¶m); - set_user_nice(create->result, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL); - set_cpus_allowed_ptr(create->result, cpu_all_mask); - } complete(&create->done); } @@ -152,11 +143,20 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data), wait_for_completion(&create.done); if (!IS_ERR(create.result)) { + struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 }; va_list args; + va_start(args, namefmt); vsnprintf(create.result->comm, sizeof(create.result->comm), namefmt, args); va_end(args); + /* + * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask. + * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties. + */ + sched_setscheduler_nocheck(create.result, SCHED_NORMAL, ¶m); + set_user_nice(create.result, KTHREAD_NICE_LEVEL); + set_cpus_allowed_ptr(create.result, cpu_all_mask); } return create.result; } From 6b44003e5ca66a3fffeb5bc90f40ada2c4340896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:50:37 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demand Impact: circular locking bugfix The various implemetnations and proposed implemetnations of work_on_cpu() are vulnerable to various deadlocks because they all used queues of some form. Unrelated pieces of kernel code thus gained dependencies wherein if one work_on_cpu() caller holds a lock which some other work_on_cpu() callback also takes, the kernel could rarely deadlock. Fix this by creating a short-lived kernel thread for each work_on_cpu() invokation. This is not terribly fast, but the only current caller of work_on_cpu() is pci_call_probe(). It would be nice to find some other way of doing the node-local allocations in the PCI probe code so that we can zap work_on_cpu() altogether. The code there is rather nasty. I can't think of anything simple at this time... Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/workqueue.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index b6b966ce145..f71fb2a0895 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -966,20 +966,20 @@ undo: } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP -static struct workqueue_struct *work_on_cpu_wq __read_mostly; struct work_for_cpu { - struct work_struct work; + struct completion completion; long (*fn)(void *); void *arg; long ret; }; -static void do_work_for_cpu(struct work_struct *w) +static int do_work_for_cpu(void *_wfc) { - struct work_for_cpu *wfc = container_of(w, struct work_for_cpu, work); - + struct work_for_cpu *wfc = _wfc; wfc->ret = wfc->fn(wfc->arg); + complete(&wfc->completion); + return 0; } /** @@ -990,17 +990,23 @@ static void do_work_for_cpu(struct work_struct *w) * * This will return the value @fn returns. * It is up to the caller to ensure that the cpu doesn't go offline. + * The caller must not hold any locks which would prevent @fn from completing. */ long work_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, long (*fn)(void *), void *arg) { - struct work_for_cpu wfc; - - INIT_WORK(&wfc.work, do_work_for_cpu); - wfc.fn = fn; - wfc.arg = arg; - queue_work_on(cpu, work_on_cpu_wq, &wfc.work); - flush_work(&wfc.work); + struct task_struct *sub_thread; + struct work_for_cpu wfc = { + .completion = COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK(wfc.completion), + .fn = fn, + .arg = arg, + }; + sub_thread = kthread_create(do_work_for_cpu, &wfc, "work_for_cpu"); + if (IS_ERR(sub_thread)) + return PTR_ERR(sub_thread); + kthread_bind(sub_thread, cpu); + wake_up_process(sub_thread); + wait_for_completion(&wfc.completion); return wfc.ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(work_on_cpu); @@ -1016,8 +1022,4 @@ void __init init_workqueues(void) hotcpu_notifier(workqueue_cpu_callback, 0); keventd_wq = create_workqueue("events"); BUG_ON(!keventd_wq); -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP - work_on_cpu_wq = create_workqueue("work_on_cpu"); - BUG_ON(!work_on_cpu_wq); -#endif }