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workqueue: fix deadlock in worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()

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If a rescuer and stop_machine() bringing down a CPU race with each
other, they may deadlock on non-preemptive kernel.  The CPU won't
accept a new task, so the rescuer can't migrate to the target CPU,
while stop_machine() can't proceed because the rescuer is holding one
of the CPU retrying migration.  GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED is never cleared
and worker_maybe_bind_and_lock() retries indefinitely.

This problem can be reproduced semi reliably while the system is
entering suspend.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1122051

A lot of kudos to Thilo-Alexander for reporting this tricky issue and
painstaking testing.

stable: This affects all kernels with cmwq, so all kernels since and
        including v2.6.36 need this fix.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <thilo@ginkel.com>
Tested-by: Thilo-Alexander Ginkel <thilo@ginkel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Tejun Heo 2011-04-29 18:08:37 +02:00
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@ -1291,8 +1291,14 @@ __acquires(&gcwq->lock)
return true;
spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock);
/* CPU has come up inbetween, retry migration */
/*
* We've raced with CPU hot[un]plug. Give it a breather
* and retry migration. cond_resched() is required here;
* otherwise, we might deadlock against cpu_stop trying to
* bring down the CPU on non-preemptive kernel.
*/
cpu_relax();
cond_resched();
}
}