From 62849a9612924a655c67cf6962920544aa5c20db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:29:59 +0100 Subject: workqueue: Remove the warning in wq_worker_sleeping() The kernel test robot triggered a warning with the following race: task-ctx A interrupt-ctx B worker -> process_one_work() -> work_item() -> schedule(); -> sched_submit_work() -> wq_worker_sleeping() -> ->sleeping = 1 atomic_dec_and_test(nr_running) __schedule(); *interrupt* async_page_fault() -> local_irq_enable(); -> schedule(); -> sched_submit_work() -> wq_worker_sleeping() -> if (WARN_ON(->sleeping)) return -> __schedule() -> sched_update_worker() -> wq_worker_running() -> atomic_inc(nr_running); -> ->sleeping = 0; -> sched_update_worker() -> wq_worker_running() if (!->sleeping) return In this context the warning is pointless everything is fine. An interrupt before wq_worker_sleeping() will perform the ->sleeping assignment (0 -> 1 > 0) twice. An interrupt after wq_worker_sleeping() will trigger the warning and nr_running will be decremented (by A) and incremented once (only by B, A will skip it). This is the case until the ->sleeping is zeroed again in wq_worker_running(). Remove the WARN statement because this condition may happen. Document that preemption around wq_worker_sleeping() needs to be disabled to protect ->sleeping and not just as an optimisation. Fixes: 6d25be5782e48 ("sched/core, workqueues: Distangle worker accounting from rq lock") Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Tejun Heo Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327074308.GY11705@shao2-debian --- kernel/sched/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched') diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index f6b329bca0c6..c3d12e3762d4 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4120,7 +4120,8 @@ static inline void sched_submit_work(struct task_struct *tsk) * it wants to wake up a task to maintain concurrency. * As this function is called inside the schedule() context, * we disable preemption to avoid it calling schedule() again - * in the possible wakeup of a kworker. + * in the possible wakeup of a kworker and because wq_worker_sleeping() + * requires it. */ if (tsk->flags & (PF_WQ_WORKER | PF_IO_WORKER)) { preempt_disable(); -- cgit v1.2.3