workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active
commit935055856458a05c43f518bf9ed406f67c090f0a
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 14 May 2012 22:04:50 +0000 (14 15:04 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:12:56 +0000 (1 15:12 +0800)
tree3cde458e723b77008d8dc041de6632458f4cba58
parentbfd6d6af769c5cd62aa9ed75b038ea3d234b090b
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/workqueue.c