tree dd275d53f76528c37e4f8f71fbfd4e2e9954f70b
parent 42f8570f437b65aaf3ef176a38ad7d7fc5847d8b
author Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 1355855702 -0800
committer Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 1355856974 -0800

workqueue: consider work function when searching for busy work items

To avoid executing the same work item concurrenlty, workqueue hashes
currently busy workers according to their current work items and looks
up the the table when it wants to execute a new work item.  If there
already is a worker which is executing the new work item, the new item
is queued to the found worker so that it gets executed only after the
current execution finishes.

Unfortunately, a work item may be freed while being executed and thus
recycled for different purposes.  If it gets recycled for a different
work item and queued while the previous execution is still in
progress, workqueue may make the new work item wait for the old one
although the two aren't really related in any way.

In extreme cases, this false dependency may lead to deadlock although
it's extremely unlikely given that there aren't too many self-freeing
work item users and they usually don't wait for other work items.

To alleviate the problem, record the current work function in each
busy worker and match it together with the work item address in
find_worker_executing_work().  While this isn't complete, it ensures
that unrelated work items don't interact with each other and in the
very unlikely case where a twisted wq user triggers it, it's always
onto itself making the culprit easy to spot.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Andrey Isakov <andy51@gmx.ru>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51701
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org