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Commit 6ff96f73 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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workqueue: cond_resched() after processing each work item



commit b22ce2785d97423846206cceec4efee0c4afd980 upstream.

If !PREEMPT, a kworker running work items back to back can hog CPU.
This becomes dangerous when a self-requeueing work item which is
waiting for something to happen races against stop_machine.  Such
self-requeueing work item would requeue itself indefinitely hogging
the kworker and CPU it's running on while stop_machine would wait for
that CPU to enter stop_machine while preventing anything else from
happening on all other CPUs.  The two would deadlock.

Jamie Liu reports that this deadlock scenario exists around
scsi_requeue_run_queue() and libata port multiplier support, where one
port may exclude command processing from other ports.  With the right
timing, scsi_requeue_run_queue() can end up requeueing itself trying
to execute an IO which is asked to be retried while another device has
an exclusive access, which in turn can't make forward progress due to
stop_machine.

Fix it by invoking cond_resched() after executing each work item.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarJamie Liu <jamieliu@google.com>
References: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1552567


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent a0d9a083
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