rcu: Create RCU-specific workqueues with rescuers
RCU's expedited grace periods can participate in out-of-memory deadlocks
due to all available system_wq kthreads being blocked and there not being
memory available to create more. This commit prevents such deadlocks
by allocating an RCU-specific workqueue_struct at early boot time, and
providing it with a rescuer to ensure forward progress. This uses the
shiny new init_rescuer() function provided by Tejun (but indirectly).
This commit also causes SRCU to use this new RCU-specific
workqueue_struct. Note that SRCU's use of workqueues never blocks them
waiting for readers, so this should be safe from a forward-progress
viewpoint. Note that this moves SRCU from system_power_efficient_wq
to a normal workqueue. In the unlikely event that this results in
measurable degradation, a separate power-efficient workqueue will be
creates for SRCU.
Reported-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
index 1c868bc..7a693e3 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
@@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ void show_rcu_gp_kthreads(void);
void rcu_force_quiescent_state(void);
void rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(void);
void rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state(void);
+extern struct workqueue_struct *rcu_gp_wq;
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU