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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 50 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 7f5d4be22034..29b79852a845 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ * * This is the generic async execution mechanism. Work items as are * executed in process context. The worker pool is shared and - * automatically managed. There is one worker pool for each CPU and - * one extra for works which are better served by workers which are - * not bound to any specific CPU. + * automatically managed. There are two worker pools for each CPU (one for + * normal work items and the other for high priority ones) and some extra + * pools for workqueues which are not bound to any specific CPU - the + * number of these backing pools is dynamic. * * Please read Documentation/workqueue.txt for details. */ @@ -2033,8 +2034,11 @@ static bool maybe_destroy_workers(struct worker_pool *pool) * multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations. * * RETURNS: - * spin_lock_irq(pool->lock) which may be released and regrabbed - * multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations. + * %false if the pool don't need management and the caller can safely start + * processing works, %true indicates that the function released pool->lock + * and reacquired it to perform some management function and that the + * conditions that the caller verified while holding the lock before + * calling the function might no longer be true. */ static bool manage_workers(struct worker *worker) { @@ -2201,6 +2205,15 @@ __acquires(&pool->lock) dump_stack(); } + /* + * The following prevents a kworker from hogging CPU on !PREEMPT + * kernels, where a requeueing work item waiting for something to + * happen could deadlock with stop_machine as such work item could + * indefinitely requeue itself while all other CPUs are trapped in + * stop_machine. + */ + cond_resched(); + spin_lock_irq(&pool->lock); /* clear cpu intensive status */ @@ -3086,25 +3099,26 @@ static struct workqueue_struct *dev_to_wq(struct device *dev) return wq_dev->wq; } -static ssize_t wq_per_cpu_show(struct device *dev, - struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) +static ssize_t per_cpu_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + char *buf) { struct workqueue_struct *wq = dev_to_wq(dev); return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", (bool)!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND)); } +static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(per_cpu); -static ssize_t wq_max_active_show(struct device *dev, - struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) +static ssize_t max_active_show(struct device *dev, + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) { struct workqueue_struct *wq = dev_to_wq(dev); return scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%d\n", wq->saved_max_active); } -static ssize_t wq_max_active_store(struct device *dev, - struct device_attribute *attr, - const char *buf, size_t count) +static ssize_t max_active_store(struct device *dev, + struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, + size_t count) { struct workqueue_struct *wq = dev_to_wq(dev); int val; @@ -3115,12 +3129,14 @@ static ssize_t wq_max_active_store(struct device *dev, workqueue_set_max_active(wq, val); return count; } +static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(max_active); -static struct device_attribute wq_sysfs_attrs[] = { - __ATTR(per_cpu, 0444, wq_per_cpu_show, NULL), - __ATTR(max_active, 0644, wq_max_active_show, wq_max_active_store), - __ATTR_NULL, +static struct attribute *wq_sysfs_attrs[] = { + &dev_attr_per_cpu.attr, + &dev_attr_max_active.attr, + NULL, }; +ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(wq_sysfs); static ssize_t wq_pool_ids_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) @@ -3270,7 +3286,7 @@ static struct device_attribute wq_sysfs_unbound_attrs[] = { static struct bus_type wq_subsys = { .name = "workqueue", - .dev_attrs = wq_sysfs_attrs, + .dev_groups = wq_sysfs_groups, }; static int __init wq_sysfs_init(void) |