Merge branch 'for-5.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "Workqueue has been incorrectly round-robining per-cpu work items.
  Hillf's patch fixes that.

  The other patch documents memory-ordering properties of workqueue
  operations"

* 'for-5.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: don't use wq_select_unbound_cpu() for bound works
  workqueue: Document (some) memory-ordering properties of {queue,schedule}_work()

Author: torvalds

include/linux/workqueue.h

@@ -487,6 +487,19 @@ extern void wq_worker_comm(char *buf, size_t size, struct task_struct *task);
  *
  * We queue the work to the CPU on which it was submitted, but if the CPU dies
  * it can be processed by another CPU.
+ *
+ * Memory-ordering properties:  If it returns %true, guarantees that all stores
+ * preceding the call to queue_work() in the program order will be visible from
+ * the CPU which will execute @work by the time such work executes, e.g.,
+ *
+ * { x is initially 0 }
+ *
+ *   CPU0				CPU1
+ *
+ *   WRITE_ONCE(x, 1);			[ @work is being executed ]
+ *   r0 = queue_work(wq, work);		  r1 = READ_ONCE(x);
+ *
+ * Forbids: r0 == true && r1 == 0
  */
 static inline bool queue_work(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 			      struct work_struct *work)
@@ -546,6 +559,9 @@ static inline bool schedule_work_on(int cpu, struct work_struct *work)
  * This puts a job in the kernel-global workqueue if it was not already
  * queued and leaves it in the same position on the kernel-global
  * workqueue otherwise.
+ *
+ * Shares the same memory-ordering properties of queue_work(), cf. the
+ * DocBook header of queue_work().
  */
 static inline bool schedule_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {

kernel/workqueue.c

@@ -1411,14 +1411,16 @@ static void __queue_work(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 		return;
 	rcu_read_lock();
 retry:
-	if (req_cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
-		cpu = wq_select_unbound_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id());
-
 	/* pwq which will be used unless @work is executing elsewhere */
-	if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND))
-		pwq = per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_pwqs, cpu);
-	else
+	if (wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND) {
+		if (req_cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
+			cpu = wq_select_unbound_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id());
 		pwq = unbound_pwq_by_node(wq, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+	} else {
+		if (req_cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
+			cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
+		pwq = per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_pwqs, cpu);
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * If @work was previously on a different pool, it might still be