Hi, This patchset fixes a couple of issues in the CPU_ONLINE notification handling for the workqueues with respect to unbounded worker threads.
Patch 1 ensures that the affinity of a unbound worker thread associated with a node whose very first CPU has come online is set correctly. In the existing code path we will never call set_cpus_allowed_ptr() for unbound worker threads that have been created on a CPU Online operation after boot. Patch 2 fixes the following WARN_ON() reported by Abdul when set_cpus_allowed_ptr() for an unbound worker thread is invoked when only one of the CPUs in its cpumask is online but not yet active. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 40 PID: 248 at kernel/sched/core.c:1166 __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x21c/0x290 Modules linked in: CPU: 40 PID: 248 Comm: cpuhp/40 Not tainted 4.6.0-autotest #1 task: c000000f27284200 ti: c000000f273fc000 task.ti: c000000f273fc000 NIP: c00000000010488c LR: c000000000104874 CTR: 0000000000000000 REGS: c000000f273ff7d0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (4.6.0-autotest) MSR: 9000000100029033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[E]> CR: 28002804 XER: 20000000 CFAR: c0000000005b0888 SOFTE: 0 GPR00: c00000000010478c c000000f273ffa50 c0000000013ce400 0000000000000000 GPR04: c00000000140ed98 0000000000000800 c0000007f64d9408 0000000000000000 GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000028 c00000000140ee90 0000000000000020 GPR12: 0000000000002200 c00000000fb96800 c0000000000f44a8 c0000007fa158480 GPR16: c0000007fc621a70 c000000f2721f800 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR20: c000000001571ef0 0000000000000000 c00000000134879f c0000000012bc510 GPR24: 0000010000000000 0000000000000000 c00000000140ea98 c0000007f64d9408 GPR28: c0000007fbc21c00 ffffffffffffffea 0000000000000000 c000000f27280000 NIP [c00000000010488c] __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x21c/0x290 LR [c000000000104874] __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x204/0x290 Call Trace: [c000000f273ffa50] [c00000000010478c] __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x11c/0x290 (unreliable) [c000000f273ffac0] [c0000000000ed4b0] workqueue_cpu_up_callback+0x2c0/0x470 [c000000f273ffb70] [c0000000000f5c58] notifier_call_chain+0x98/0x100 [c000000f273ffbc0] [c0000000000c5ed0] __cpu_notify+0x70/0xe0 [c000000f273ffc00] [c0000000000c6028] notify_online+0x38/0x50 [c000000f273ffc30] [c0000000000c5214] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x84/0x250 [c000000f273ffc90] [c0000000000c562c] cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x5c/0x120 [c000000f273ffce0] [c0000000000c64d4] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x184/0x1c0 [c000000f273ffd20] [c0000000000fa050] smpboot_thread_fn+0x290/0x2a0 [c000000f273ffd80] [c0000000000f45b0] kthread+0x110/0x130 [c000000f273ffe30] [c000000000009570] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x6c Instruction dump: 419eff3c 3d420004 38a00800 388a0998 7f63db78 484abfa1 60000000 2fa30000 409eff1c 813f0378 2f890001 419eff10 <0fe00000> 4bffff08 60000000 60000000 ---[ end trace cbc1c5cfbc9591d0 ]--- The patches are based on 4.7-rc2. I have tested the patches on a multi-node x86_64 and a ppc64 Gautham R. Shenoy (2): workqueue: Move wq_update_unbound_numa() to the beginning of CPU_ONLINE workqueue:Fix affinity of an unbound worker of a node with 1 online CPU kernel/workqueue.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 1.9.3 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev