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workqueue: warn if memory reclaim tries to flush !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue

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Task or work item involved in memory reclaim trying to flush a
non-WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue or one of its work items can lead to
deadlock.  Trigger WARN_ONCE() if such conditions are detected.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Tejun Heo 2015-12-07 10:58:57 -05:00
parent 527e9316f8
commit fca839c00a
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@ -2316,6 +2316,37 @@ repeat:
goto repeat;
}
/**
* check_flush_dependency - check for flush dependency sanity
* @target_wq: workqueue being flushed
* @target_work: work item being flushed (NULL for workqueue flushes)
*
* %current is trying to flush the whole @target_wq or @target_work on it.
* If @target_wq doesn't have %WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, verify that %current is not
* reclaiming memory or running on a workqueue which doesn't have
* %WQ_MEM_RECLAIM as that can break forward-progress guarantee leading to
* a deadlock.
*/
static void check_flush_dependency(struct workqueue_struct *target_wq,
struct work_struct *target_work)
{
work_func_t target_func = target_work ? target_work->func : NULL;
struct worker *worker;
if (target_wq->flags & WQ_MEM_RECLAIM)
return;
worker = current_wq_worker();
WARN_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC,
"workqueue: PF_MEMALLOC task %d(%s) is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM %s:%pf",
current->pid, current->comm, target_wq->name, target_func);
WARN_ONCE(worker && (worker->current_pwq->wq->flags & WQ_MEM_RECLAIM),
"workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM %s:%pf is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM %s:%pf",
worker->current_pwq->wq->name, worker->current_func,
target_wq->name, target_func);
}
struct wq_barrier {
struct work_struct work;
struct completion done;
@ -2525,6 +2556,8 @@ void flush_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
list_add_tail(&this_flusher.list, &wq->flusher_overflow);
}
check_flush_dependency(wq, NULL);
mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex);
wait_for_completion(&this_flusher.done);
@ -2697,6 +2730,8 @@ static bool start_flush_work(struct work_struct *work, struct wq_barrier *barr)
pwq = worker->current_pwq;
}
check_flush_dependency(pwq->wq, work);
insert_wq_barrier(pwq, barr, work, worker);
spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);