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/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 99d404c..2a73469 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -4167,6 +4167,8 @@ static void __init rcu_dump_rcu_node_tree(struct rcu_state *rsp)
pr_cont("\n");
}
+struct workqueue_struct *rcu_gp_wq;
+
void __init rcu_init(void)
{
int cpu;
@@ -4193,6 +4195,10 @@ void __init rcu_init(void)
rcu_cpu_starting(cpu);
rcutree_online_cpu(cpu);
}
+
+ /* Create workqueue for expedited GPs and for Tree SRCU. */
+ rcu_gp_wq = alloc_workqueue("rcu_gp", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
+ WARN_ON(!rcu_gp_wq);
}
#include "tree_exp.h"