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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 29 |
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diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 16e13d8628a3..801a698564d4 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -666,6 +666,35 @@ static void set_work_pool_and_clear_pending(struct work_struct *work, */ smp_wmb(); set_work_data(work, (unsigned long)pool_id << WORK_OFFQ_POOL_SHIFT, 0); + /* + * The following mb guarantees that previous clear of a PENDING bit + * will not be reordered with any speculative LOADS or STORES from + * work->current_func, which is executed afterwards. This possible + * reordering can lead to a missed execution on attempt to qeueue + * the same @work. E.g. consider this case: + * + * CPU#0 CPU#1 + * ---------------------------- -------------------------------- + * + * 1 STORE event_indicated + * 2 queue_work_on() { + * 3 test_and_set_bit(PENDING) + * 4 } set_..._and_clear_pending() { + * 5 set_work_data() # clear bit + * 6 smp_mb() + * 7 work->current_func() { + * 8 LOAD event_indicated + * } + * + * Without an explicit full barrier speculative LOAD on line 8 can + * be executed before CPU#0 does STORE on line 1. If that happens, + * CPU#0 observes the PENDING bit is still set and new execution of + * a @work is not queued in a hope, that CPU#1 will eventually + * finish the queued @work. Meanwhile CPU#1 does not see + * event_indicated is set, because speculative LOAD was executed + * before actual STORE. + */ + smp_mb(); } static void clear_work_data(struct work_struct *work) |