workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 14 May 2012 22:04:50 +0000 (15:04 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 30 May 2012 23:43:42 +0000 (00:43 +0100)
commit5d79c6f64a904afc92a329f80abe693e3ae105fe
treeed1145e2113b9579fa6f8f8fa3cfcb843f815291
parentb89d788669db009d58b2f5e9988caaaf7df9e4ab
workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active

commit 544ecf310f0e7f51fa057ac2a295fc1b3b35a9d3 upstream.

worker_enter_idle() has WARN_ON_ONCE() which triggers if nr_running
isn't zero when every worker is idle.  This can trigger spuriously
while a cpu is going down due to the way trustee sets %WORKER_ROGUE
and zaps nr_running.

It first sets %WORKER_ROGUE on all workers without updating
nr_running, releases gcwq->lock, schedules, regrabs gcwq->lock and
then zaps nr_running.  If the last running worker enters idle
inbetween, it would see stale nr_running which hasn't been zapped yet
and trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE().

Fix it by performing the sanity check iff the trustee is idle.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
kernel/workqueue.c