workqueue: introduce kmem_cache for pool_workqueues
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:29:57 +0000 (11:29 -0700)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:29:57 +0000 (11:29 -0700)
pool_workqueues need to be aligned to 1 << WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS as
the lower bits of work->data are used for flags when they're pointing
to pool_workqueues.

Due to historical reasons, unbound pool_workqueues are allocated using
kzalloc() with sufficient buffer area for alignment and aligned
manually.  The original pointer is stored at the end which free_pwqs()
retrieves when freeing it.

There's no reason for this hackery anymore.  Set alignment of struct
pool_workqueue to 1 << WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS, add kmem_cache for
pool_workqueues with proper alignment and replace the hacky alloc and
free implementation with plain kmem_cache_zalloc/free().

In case WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS gets shrunk too much and makes fields of
pool_workqueues misaligned, trigger WARN if the alignment of struct
pool_workqueue becomes smaller than that of long long.

Note that assertion on IS_ALIGNED() is removed from alloc_pwqs().  We
already have another one in pwq init loop in __alloc_workqueue_key().

This patch doesn't introduce any visible behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
kernel/workqueue.c

index c585d0ebd3535fc56e528102d61a12ddfbdb8a28..f9e2ad9a320551a85dcaf024a0a35b1347312732 100644 (file)
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ struct pool_workqueue {
        int                     nr_active;      /* L: nr of active works */
        int                     max_active;     /* L: max active works */
        struct list_head        delayed_works;  /* L: delayed works */
-};
+} __aligned(1 << WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS);
 
 /*
  * Structure used to wait for workqueue flush.
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ struct workqueue_struct {
        char                    name[];         /* I: workqueue name */
 };
 
+static struct kmem_cache *pwq_cache;
+
 struct workqueue_struct *system_wq __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(system_wq);
 struct workqueue_struct *system_highpri_wq __read_mostly;
@@ -3096,34 +3098,11 @@ int keventd_up(void)
 
 static int alloc_pwqs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 {
-       /*
-        * pwqs are forced aligned according to WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS.
-        * Make sure that the alignment isn't lower than that of
-        * unsigned long long.
-        */
-       const size_t size = sizeof(struct pool_workqueue);
-       const size_t align = max_t(size_t, 1 << WORK_STRUCT_FLAG_BITS,
-                                  __alignof__(unsigned long long));
-
        if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND))
-               wq->pool_wq.pcpu = __alloc_percpu(size, align);
-       else {
-               void *ptr;
-
-               /*
-                * Allocate enough room to align pwq and put an extra
-                * pointer at the end pointing back to the originally
-                * allocated pointer which will be used for free.
-                */
-               ptr = kzalloc(size + align + sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (ptr) {
-                       wq->pool_wq.single = PTR_ALIGN(ptr, align);
-                       *(void **)(wq->pool_wq.single + 1) = ptr;
-               }
-       }
+               wq->pool_wq.pcpu = alloc_percpu(struct pool_workqueue);
+       else
+               wq->pool_wq.single = kmem_cache_zalloc(pwq_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 
-       /* just in case, make sure it's actually aligned */
-       BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(wq->pool_wq.v, align));
        return wq->pool_wq.v ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
 }
 
@@ -3131,10 +3110,8 @@ static void free_pwqs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 {
        if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND))
                free_percpu(wq->pool_wq.pcpu);
-       else if (wq->pool_wq.single) {
-               /* the pointer to free is stored right after the pwq */
-               kfree(*(void **)(wq->pool_wq.single + 1));
-       }
+       else
+               kmem_cache_free(pwq_cache, wq->pool_wq.single);
 }
 
 static int wq_clamp_max_active(int max_active, unsigned int flags,
@@ -3734,6 +3711,10 @@ static int __init init_workqueues(void)
        BUILD_BUG_ON((1LU << (BITS_PER_LONG - WORK_OFFQ_POOL_SHIFT)) <
                     WORK_CPU_END * NR_STD_WORKER_POOLS);
 
+       WARN_ON(__alignof__(struct pool_workqueue) < __alignof__(long long));
+
+       pwq_cache = KMEM_CACHE(pool_workqueue, SLAB_PANIC);
+
        cpu_notifier(workqueue_cpu_up_callback, CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_UP);
        hotcpu_notifier(workqueue_cpu_down_callback, CPU_PRI_WORKQUEUE_DOWN);