This patch fix spelling typo in Documentation/DocBook.
It is because .html and .xml files are generated by make htmldocs,
I have to fix a typo within the source files.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Currently, there's nothing preventing cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists()
from missing set PF_EXITING and race against cgroup_exit(). Depending
on the timing, cgroup_exit() may finish with the task still linked on
css_set leading to list corruption. Fix it by grabbing siglock in
cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() so that PF_EXITING is guaranteed to be
visible.
This whole on-demand cg_list optimization is extremely fragile and has
ample possibility to lead to bugs which can cause things like
once-a-year oops during boot. I'm wondering whether the better
approach would be just adding "cgroup_disable=all" handling which
disables the whole cgroup rather than tempting fate with this
on-demand craziness.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fengguang reported this bug:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000003c
IP: [<cc90b4ad>] cgroup_cfts_commit+0x27/0x1c1
...
Call Trace:
[<cc9d1129>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x33f/0x3b7
[<cc90c6fc>] cgroup_add_cftypes+0x8f/0xca
[<cd78b646>] cgroup_init+0x6a/0x26a
[<cd764d7d>] start_kernel+0x4d7/0x57a
[<cd7642ef>] i386_start_kernel+0x92/0x96
This happens in a corner case. If CGROUP_SCHED=y but CFS_BANDWIDTH=n &&
FAIR_GROUP_SCHED=n && RT_GROUP_SCHED=n, we have:
cpu_files[] = {
{ } /* terminate */
}
When we pass cpu_files to cgroup_apply_cftypes(), as cpu_files[0].ss
is NULL, we'll access NULL pointer.
The bug was introduced by commit de00ffa56e
("cgroup: make cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes use cgroup_add_cftypes()").
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
When a kworker should die, the kworkre is notified through WORKER_DIE
flag instead of kthread_should_stop(). This, IIRC, is primarily to
keep the test synchronized inside worker_pool lock. WORKER_DIE is
first set while holding pool->lock, the lock is dropped and
kthread_stop() is called.
Unfortunately, this means that there's a slight chance that the target
kworker may see WORKER_DIE before kthread_stop() finishes and exits
and frees the target task before or during kthread_stop().
Fix it by pinning the target task before setting WORKER_DIE and
putting it after kthread_stop() is done.
tj: Improved patch description and comment. Moved pinning above
WORKER_DIE for better signify what it's protecting.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
My rework of handling of notification events (namely commit 7053aee26a
"fsnotify: do not share events between notification groups") broke
sending of cookies with inotify events. We didn't propagate the value
passed to fsnotify() properly and passed 4 uninitialized bytes to
userspace instead (so it is also an information leak). Sadly I didn't
notice this during my testing because inotify cookies aren't used very
much and LTP inotify tests ignore them.
Fix the problem by passing the cookie value properly.
Fixes: 7053aee26a
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then no CPU will ever have RCU callbacks
because these callbacks will instead be handled by the rcuo kthreads.
However, the current version of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ nevertheless checks for RCU
callbacks. This commit therefore creates static inline implementations
of rcu_prepare_for_idle() and rcu_cleanup_after_idle() that are no-ops
when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then rcu_needs_cpu() will always
return false, however, the current version nevertheless checks
for RCU callbacks. This commit therefore creates a static inline
implementation of rcu_needs_cpu() that unconditionally returns false
when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then rcu_is_nocb_cpu() will always
return true, however, the current version nevertheless checks
rcu_nocb_mask. This commit therefore creates a static inline
implementation of rcu_is_nocb_cpu() that unconditionally returns
true when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
For better use of CPU idle time, allow the scheduler to select the CPU
on which the SRCU grace period work would be scheduled. This improves
idle residency time and conserves power.
This functionality is enabled when CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT is selected.
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com>
[zoran.markovic@linaro.org: Rebased to latest kernel version. Added commit
message. Fixed code alignment.]
Signed-off-by: Zoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit fixes a grammar issue in the rcu_nohz_full_cpu() comment
header, so that it is clear that the plural is CPUs not Kconfig options.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Because jiffies is one of a very few variables marked "volatile", there
is no need to use ACCESS_ONCE() when accessing it. This commit therefore
removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers.
Reported by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
All of the RCU source files have the usual GPL header, which contains a
long-obsolete postal address for FSF. To avoid the need to track the
FSF office's movements, this commit substitutes the URL where GPL may
be found.
Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The ->n_force_qs_lh field is accessed without the benefit of any
synchronization, so this commit adds the needed ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers.
Yes, increments to ->n_force_qs_lh can be lost, but contention should
be low and the field is strictly statistical in nature, so this is not
a problem.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This is not a buffer overflow in the traditional sense: we don't
overflow any *kernel* buffers, but we do mis-count the amount of data we
copy back to user space for the SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL case.
In particular, if the user buffer is too small to hold everything, and
*if* there is a continuation line at just the right place, we can end up
giving the user more data than he asked for.
The reason is that we first count up the number of bytes all the log
records contains, then we walk the records again until we've skipped the
records at the beginning that won't fit, and then we walk the rest of
the records and copy them to the user space buffer.
And in between that "skip the initial records that won't fit" and the
"copy the records that *will* fit to user space", we reset the 'prev'
variable that contained the record information for the last record not
copied. That meant that when we started copying to user space, we now
had a different character count than what we had originally calculated
in the first record walk-through.
The fix is to simply not clear the 'prev' flags value (in both cases
where we had the same logic: syslog_print_all and kmsg_dump_get_buffer:
the latter is used for pstore-like dumping)
Reported-and-tested-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull irq update from Thomas Gleixner:
"Fix from the urgent branch: a trivial oneliner adding the missing
Kconfig dependency curing build failures which have been discovered by
several build robots.
The update in the irq-core branch provides a new function in the
irq/devres code, which is a prerequisite for driver developers to get
rid of boilerplate code all over the place.
Not a bugfix, but it has zero impact on the current kernel due to the
lack of users. It's simpler to provide the infrastructure to
interested parties via your tree than fulfilling the wishlist of
driver maintainers on which particular commit or tag this should be
based on"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Add missing irq_to_desc export for CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=n
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Add devm_request_any_context_irq()
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"The following trilogy of patches brings you:
- fix for a long standing math overflow issue with HZ < 60
- an onliner fix for a corner case in the dreaded tick broadcast
mechanism affecting a certain range of AMD machines which are
infested with the infamous automagic C1E power control misfeature
- a fix for one of the ARM platforms which allows the kernel to
proceed and boot instead of stupidly panicing for no good reason.
The patch is slightly larger than necessary, but it's less ugly
than the alternative 5 liner"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tick: Clear broadcast pending bit when switching to oneshot
clocksource: Kona: Print warning rather than panic
time: Fix overflow when HZ is smaller than 60
When a timer is enqueued or modified on a remote target, the latter is
expected to see and handle this timer on its next tick. However if the
target is idle and CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y, the CPU may be sleeping tickless
and the timer may be ignored.
wake_up_nohz_cpu() takes care of that by setting TIF_NEED_RESCHED and
sending an IPI to idle targets so that the tick is reevaluated on the
idle loop through the tick_nohz_idle_*() APIs.
Now this is all performed regardless of the power properties of the
timer. If the timer is deferrable, idle targets don't need to be woken
up. Only the next buzy tick needs to care about it, and no IPI kick
is needed for that to happen.
So lets spare the IPI on idle targets when the timer is deferrable.
Meanwhile we keep the current behaviour on full dynticks targets. We can
spare IPIs on idle full dynticks targets as well but some tricky races
against idle_cpu() must be dealt all along to make sure that the timer
is well handled after idle exit. We can deal with that later since
NO_HZ_FULL already has more important powersaving issues.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAKohpomMZ0TAN2e6N76_g4ZRzxd5vZ1XfuZfxrP7GMxfTNiLVw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
We should free the memory allocated in parse_cgroupfs_options() before
calling this function again.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
css_set_lock has been converted to css_set_rwsem, and rwsem can't nest
inside rcu_read_lock.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
In LTO symbols implicitely referenced by the compiler need
to be visible. Earlier these symbols were visible implicitely
from being exported, but we disabled implicit visibility fo
EXPORTs when modules are disabled to improve code size. So
now these symbols have to be marked visible explicitely.
Do this for __stack_chk_fail (with stack protector)
and memcmp.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391845930-28580-10-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
kernel/cgroup.c:2256:1-3: WARNING: PTR_RET can be used
Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO rather than if(IS_ERR(...)) + PTR_ERR
Generated by: coccinelle/api/ptr_ret.cocci
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
AMD systems which use the C1E workaround in the amd_e400_idle routine
trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE in the broadcast code when onlining a CPU.
The reason is that the idle routine of those AMD systems switches the
cpu into forced broadcast mode early on before the newly brought up
CPU can switch over to high resolution / NOHZ mode. The timer related
CPU1 bringup looks like this:
clockevent_register_device(local_apic);
tick_setup(local_apic);
...
idle()
tick_broadcast_on_off(FORCE);
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(ENTER)
cpumask_set(cpu, broadcast_oneshot_mask);
halt();
Now the broadcast interrupt on CPU0 sets CPU1 in the
broadcast_pending_mask and wakes CPU1. So CPU1 continues:
local_apic_timer_interrupt()
tick_handle_periodic();
softirq()
tick_init_highres();
cpumask_clr(cpu, broadcast_oneshot_mask);
tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(ENTER)
WARN_ON(cpumask_test(cpu, broadcast_pending_mask);
So while we remove CPU1 from the broadcast_oneshot_mask when we switch
over to highres mode, we do not clear the pending bit, which then
triggers the warning when we go back to idle.
The reason why this is only visible on C1E affected AMD systems is
that the other machines enter the deep sleep states via
acpi_idle/intel_idle and exit the broadcast mode before executing the
remote triggered local_apic_timer_interrupt. So the pending bit is
already cleared when the switch over to highres mode is clearing the
oneshot mask.
The solution is simple: Clear the pending bit together with the mask
bit when we switch over to highres mode.
Stanislaw came up independently with the same patch by enforcing the
C1E workaround and debugging the fallout. I picked mine, because mine
has a changelog :)
Reported-by: poma <pomidorabelisima@gmail.com>
Debugged-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1402111434180.21991@ionos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
With module support gone, a lot of functions no longer need to be
exported. Unexport them.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
cgroup_attach_task() is planned to go through restructuring. Let's
tidy it up a bit in preparation.
* Update cgroup_attach_task() to receive the target task argument in
@leader instead of @tsk.
* Rename @tsk to @task.
* Rename @retval to @ret.
This is purely cosmetic.
v2: get_nr_threads() was using uninitialized @task instead of @leader.
Fixed. Reported by Dan Carpenter.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
The two functions don't have any users left. Remove them along with
cgroup_taskset->cur_cgrp.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
cgroup_taskset_cur_css() will be removed during the planned
resturcturing of migration path. The only use of
cgroup_taskset_cur_css() is finding out the old cgroup_subsys_state of
the leader in cpuset_attach(). This usage can easily be removed by
remembering the old value from cpuset_can_attach().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
If !NULL, @skip_css makes cgroup_taskset_for_each() skip the matching
css. The intention of the interface is to make it easy to skip css's
(cgroup_subsys_states) which already match the migration target;
however, this is entirely unnecessary as migration taskset doesn't
include tasks which are already in the target cgroup. Drop @skip_css
from cgroup_taskset_for_each().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Instead of repeatedly locking and unlocking css_set_rwsem inside
cgroup_task_migrate(), update cgroup_attach_task() to grab it outside
of the loop and update cgroup_task_migrate() to use
put_css_set_locked().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
put_css_set() is performed in two steps - it first tries to put
without grabbing css_set_rwsem if such put wouldn't make the count
zero. If that fails, it puts after write-locking css_set_rwsem. This
patch separates out the second phase into put_css_set_locked() which
should be called with css_set_rwsem locked.
Also, put_css_set_taskexit() is droped and put_css_set() is made to
take @taskexit. There are only a handful users of these functions.
No point in providing different variants.
put_css_locked() will be used by later changes. This patch doesn't
introduce any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Now that css_task_iter_start/next_end() supports blocking while
iterating, there's no reason to use css_scan_tasks() which is more
cumbersome to use and scheduled to be removed.
Convert all css_scan_tasks() usages in cpuset to
css_task_iter_start/next/end(). This simplifies the code by removing
heap allocation and callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Currently there are two ways to walk tasks of a cgroup -
css_task_iter_start/next/end() and css_scan_tasks(). The latter
builds on the former but allows blocking while iterating.
Unfortunately, the way css_scan_tasks() is implemented is rather
nasty, it uses a priority heap of pointers to extract some number of
tasks in task creation order and loops over them invoking the callback
and repeats that until it reaches the end. It requires either
preallocated heap or may fail under memory pressure, while unlikely to
be problematic, the complexity is O(N^2), and in general just nasty.
We're gonna convert all css_scan_users() to
css_task_iter_start/next/end() and remove css_scan_users(). As
css_scan_tasks() users may block, let's convert css_set_lock to a
rwsem so that tasks can block during css_task_iter_*() is in progress.
While this does increase the chance of possible deadlock scenarios,
given the current usage, the probability is relatively low, and even
if that happens, the right thing to do is updating the iteration in
the similar way to css iterators so that it can handle blocking.
Most conversions are trivial; however, task_cgroup_path() now expects
to be called with css_set_rwsem locked instead of locking itself.
This is because the function is called with RCU read lock held and
rwsem locking should nest outside RCU read lock.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Reimplement cgroup_transfer_tasks() so that it repeatedly fetches the
first task in the cgroup and then tranfers it. This achieves the same
result without using css_scan_tasks() which is scheduled to be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
cgroup_task_count() read-locks css_set_lock and walks all tasks to
count them and then returns the result. The only thing all the users
want is determining whether the cgroup is empty or not. This patch
implements cgroup_has_tasks() which tests whether cgroup->cset_links
is empty, replaces all cgroup_task_count() usages and unexports it.
Note that the test isn't synchronized. This is the same as before.
The test has always been racy.
This will help planned css_set locking update.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Move it above so that prototype isn't necessary. Let's also move the
definition of use_task_css_set_links next to it.
This is purely cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Tasks are not linked on their css_sets until cgroup task iteration is
actually used. This is to avoid incurring overhead on the fork and
exit paths for systems which have cgroup compiled in but don't use it.
This lazy binding also affects the task migration path. It has to be
careful so that it doesn't link tasks to css_sets when task_cg_lists
linking is not enabled yet. Unfortunately, this conditional linking
in the migration path interferes with planned migration updates.
This patch moves the lazy binding a bit earlier, to the first cgroup
mount. It's a clear indication that cgroup is being used on the
system and task_cg_lists linking is highly likely to be enabled soon
anyway through "tasks" and "cgroup.procs" files.
This allows cgroup_task_migrate() to always link @tsk->cg_list. Note
that it may still race with cgroup_post_fork() but who wins that race
is inconsequential.
While at it, make use_task_css_set_links a bool, add sanity checks in
cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() and css_task_iter_start(), and update
the former so that it's guaranteed and assumes to run only once.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Before kernfs conversion, due to the way super_block lookup works,
cgroup roots were created and made visible before being fully
initialized. This in turn required a special flag to mark that the
root hasn't been fully initialized so that the destruction path can
tell fully bound ones from half initialized.
That flag is CGRP_ROOT_SUBSYS_BOUND and no longer necessary after the
kernfs conversion as the lookup and creation of new root are atomic
w.r.t. cgroup_mutex. This patch removes the flag and passes the
requests subsystem mask to cgroup_setup_root() so that it can set the
respective mask bits as subsystems are bound.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Disallow more mount options if sane_behavior. Note that xattr used to
generate warning.
While at it, simplify option check in cgroup_mount() and update
sane_behavior comment in cgroup.h.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
This reverts commit ab3f5faa62.
Explanation from Hugh:
It's because more thorough testing, by others here, found that it
wasn't always solving the problem: so I asked Tejun privately to
hold off from sending it in, until we'd worked out why not.
Most of our testing being on a v3,11-based kernel, it was perfectly
possible that the problem was merely our own e.g. missing Tejun's
8a2b753844 ("workqueue: fix ordered workqueues in NUMA setups").
But that turned out not to be enough to fix it either. Then Filipe
pointed out how percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm() uses call_rcu_sched()
before we ever get to put the offline on to the workqueue: by the
time we get to the workqueue, the ordering has already been lost.
So, thanks for the Acks, but I'm afraid that this ordered workqueue
solution is just not good enough: we should simply forget that patch
and provide a different answer."
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
