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    workqueue: perform cpu down operations from low priority cpu_notifier() · 65758202
    Tejun Heo authored
    
    
    Currently, all workqueue cpu hotplug operations run off
    CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE which is higher than normal notifiers.  This is to
    ensure that workqueue is up and running while bringing up a CPU before
    other notifiers try to use workqueue on the CPU.
    
    Per-cpu workqueues are supposed to remain working and bound to the CPU
    for normal CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers.  This holds mostly true even
    with workqueue offlining running with higher priority because
    workqueue CPU_DOWN_PREPARE only creates a bound trustee thread which
    runs the per-cpu workqueue without concurrency management without
    explicitly detaching the existing workers.
    
    However, if the trustee needs to create new workers, it creates
    unbound workers which may wander off to other CPUs while
    CPU_DOWN_PREPARE notifiers are in progress.  Furthermore, if the CPU
    down is cancelled, the per-CPU workqueue may end up with workers which
    aren't bound to the CPU.
    
    While reliably reproducible with a convoluted artificial test-case
    involving scheduling and flushing CPU burning work items from CPU down
    notifiers, this isn't very likely to happen in the wild, and, even
    when it happens, the effects are likely to be hidden by the following
    successful CPU down.
    
    Fix it by using different priorities for up and down notifiers - high
    priority for up operations and low priority for down operations.
    
    Workqueue cpu hotplug operations will soon go through further cleanup.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Acked-by: default avatar"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
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