[PATCH v8 00/12] kthread: Kthread worker API improvements

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Thu Jun 09 2016 - 09:52:31 EST


I send the kthread worker API improvements separately as discussed
in v6, see
https://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160511105224.GE2749@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
They seem to be ready for inclusion in 4.8.

I will send the conversion of the particular kthreads once
the API changes are in some maintainers three (-mm?) and
visible in linux-next. If nobody suggests some other approach.

Also I plan to continue with conversion of more kthreads.

Just to remember. The intention of this patchset is to make
it easier to manipulate and maintain kthreads. Especially, I want
to replace all the custom main cycles with a generic one.
Also I want to make the kthreads sleep in a consistent
state in a common place when there is no work.


Changes against v7:

+ Fix up all names of functions and macros to be prefixed
by kthread_/KTHREAD_; This is done also for existing
functions and macros, see the first two patches


Changes against v6:

+ no changes.


Changes against v5:

+ removed spin_trylock() from delayed_kthread_work_timer_fn();
instead temporary released worked->lock() when calling
del_timer_sync(); made sure that any queueing was blocked
by work->canceling in the mealtime

+ used 0th byte for KTW_FREEZABLE to reduce confusion

+ fixed warnings in comments reported by make htmldocs

+ sigh, there was no easy way to create an empty va_list
that would work on all architectures; decided to make
@namefmt generic in create_kthread_worker_on_cpu()

+ converted khungtaskd a better way; it was inspired by
the recent changes that appeared in 4.6-rc1


Changes against v4:

+ added worker->delayed_work_list; it simplified the check
for pending work; we do not longer need the new timer_active()
function; also we do not need the link work->timer. On the
other hand we need to distinguish between the normal and
the delayed work by a boolean parameter passed to
the common functions, e.g. __cancel_kthread_work_sync()

+ replaced most try_lock repeat cycles with a WARN_ON();
the API does not allow to use the work with more workers;
so such a situation would be a bug; it removed the
complex try_lock_kthread_work() function that supported
more modes;

+ renamed kthread_work_pending() to queuing_blocked();
added this function later when really needed

+ renamed try_to_cancel_kthread_work() to __cancel_kthread_work();
in fact, this a common implementation for the async cancel()
function

+ removed a dull check for invalid cpu number in
create_kthread_worker_on_cpu(); removed some other unnecessary
code structures as suggested by Tejun

+ consistently used bool return value in all new __cancel functions

+ fixed ordering of cpu and flags parameters in
create_kthread_worker_on_cpu() vs. create_kthread_worker()

+ used memset in the init_kthread_worker()

+ updated many comments as suggested by Tejun and as
required the above changes

+ removed obsolete patch adding timer_active()

+ removed obsolete patch for using try_lock in flush_kthread_worker()

+ double checked all existing users of kthread worker API
that they reinitialized the work when the worker was started
and would not print false warnings; all looked fine

+ added taken acks for the Intel Powerclamp conversion


Changes against v3:

+ allow to free struct kthread_work from its callback; do not touch
the struct from the worker post-mortem; as a side effect, the structure
must be reinitialized when the worker gets restarted; updated
khugepaged, and kmemleak accordingly

+ call del_timer_sync() with worker->lock; instead, detect canceling
in the timer callback and give up an attempt to get the lock there;
do busy loop with spin_is_locked() to reduce cache bouncing

+ renamed ipmi+func() -> ipmi_kthread_worker_func() as suggested
by Corey

+ added some collected Reviewed-by


Changes against v2:

+ used worker->lock to synchronize the operations with the work
instead of the PENDING bit as suggested by Tejun Heo; it simplified
the implementation in several ways

+ added timer_active(); used it together with del_timer_sync()
to cancel the work a less tricky way

+ removed the controversial conversion of the RCU kthreads

+ added several other examples: hung_task, kmemleak, ipmi,
IB/fmr_pool, memstick/r592, intel_powerclamp

+ the helper fixes for the ring buffer benchmark has been improved
as suggested by Steven; they already are in the Linus tree now

+ fixed a possible race between the check for existing khugepaged
worker and queuing the work


Changes against v1:

+ remove wrappers to manipulate the scheduling policy and priority

+ remove questionable wakeup_and_destroy_kthread_worker() variant

+ do not check for chained work when draining the queue

+ allocate struct kthread worker in create_kthread_work() and
use more simple checks for running worker

+ add support for delayed kthread works and use them instead
of waiting inside the works

+ rework the "unrelated" fixes for the ring buffer benchmark
as discussed in the 1st RFC; also sent separately

+ convert also the consumer in the ring buffer benchmark


I have tested this patch set against the stable Linus tree
for 4.7-rc2.

Comments against v7 can be found at
https://lkml.kernel.org/g/1464620371-31346-1-git-send-email-pmladek@xxxxxxxx

Petr Mladek (12):
kthread: Rename probe_kthread_data() to kthread_probe_data()
kthread: Kthread worker API cleanup
kthread/smpboot: Do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()
kthread: Allow to call __kthread_create_on_node() with va_list args
kthread: Add kthread_create_worker*()
kthread: Add kthread_drain_worker()
kthread: Add kthread_destroy_worker()
kthread: Detect when a kthread work is used by more workers
kthread: Initial support for delayed kthread work
kthread: Allow to cancel kthread work
kthread: Allow to modify delayed kthread work
kthread: Better support freezable kthread workers

Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 14 +-
crypto/crypto_engine.c | 16 +-
drivers/block/loop.c | 8 +-
drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/cq.c | 10 +-
drivers/md/dm.c | 10 +-
drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c | 6 +-
drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-irq.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c | 10 +-
drivers/spi/spi.c | 18 +-
drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c | 22 +-
include/linux/kthread.h | 98 ++++-
kernel/kthread.c | 612 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
kernel/smpboot.c | 5 +
kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +-
sound/soc/intel/baytrail/sst-baytrail-ipc.c | 2 +-
sound/soc/intel/common/sst-ipc.c | 6 +-
sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c | 2 +-
sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl-sst-ipc.c | 2 +-
19 files changed, 689 insertions(+), 158 deletions(-)

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