From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com (mail-wi0-f169.google.com [209.85.212.169]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E202C9003C7 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 06:05:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wicmv11 with SMTP id mv11so212180864wic.0 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2015 03:05:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id pa6si34125389wjb.84.2015.07.29.03.05.00 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 29 Jul 2015 03:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:04:57 +0200 From: Petr Mladek Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 03/14] kthread: Add drain_kthread_worker() Message-ID: <20150729100457.GI2673@pathway.suse.cz> References: <1438094371-8326-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> <1438094371-8326-4-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> <20150728171822.GA5322@mtj.duckdns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150728171822.GA5322@mtj.duckdns.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , "Paul E. McKenney" , Josh Triplett , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Jiri Kosina , Borislav Petkov , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue 2015-07-28 13:18:22, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 04:39:20PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > > +/* > > + * Test whether @work is being queued from another work > > + * executing on the same kthread. > > + */ > > +static bool is_chained_work(struct kthread_worker *worker) > > +{ > > + struct kthread_worker *current_worker; > > + > > + current_worker = current_kthread_worker(); > > + /* > > + * Return %true if I'm a kthread worker executing a work item on > > + * the given @worker. > > + */ > > + return current_worker && current_worker == worker; > > +} > > I'm not sure full-on chained work detection is necessary here. > kthread worker's usages tend to be significantly simpler and draining > is only gonna be used for destruction. I think that it might be useful to detect bugs when someone depends on the worker when it is being destroyed. For example, I tried to convert "khubd" kthread and there was not easy to double check that this worked as expected. I actually think about replacing WARN_ON_ONCE(!is_chained_work(worker))) with WARN_ON(!is_chained_work(worker))) in queue_kthread_work, so that we get the warning for all misused workers. > > +void drain_kthread_worker(struct kthread_worker *worker) > > +{ > > + int flush_cnt = 0; > > + > > + spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock); > > + worker->nr_drainers++; > > + > > + while (!list_empty(&worker->work_list)) { > > + /* > > + * Unlock, so we could move forward. Note that queuing > > + * is limited by @nr_drainers > 0. > > + */ > > + spin_unlock_irq(&worker->lock); > > + > > + flush_kthread_worker(worker); > > + > > + if (++flush_cnt == 10 || > > + (flush_cnt % 100 == 0 && flush_cnt <= 1000)) > > + pr_warn("kthread worker %s: drain_kthread_worker() isn't complete after %u tries\n", > > + worker->task->comm, flush_cnt); > > + > > + spin_lock_irq(&worker->lock); > > + } > > I'd just do something like WARN_ONCE(flush_cnt++ > 10, "kthread worker: ..."). This would print the warning only for one broken worker. But I do not have strong opinion about it. Best Regards, Petr -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org