[PATCH -tip V4 3/8] workqueue: use cpu_possible_mask instead of cpu_active_mask to break affinity

From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Mon Jan 11 2021 - 09:27:27 EST


From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The scheduler won't break affinity for us any more, and we should
"emulate" the same behavior when the scheduler breaks affinity for
us. The behavior is "changing the cpumask to cpu_possible_mask".

And there might be some other CPUs online later while the worker is
still running with the pending work items. The worker should be allowed
to use the later online CPUs as before and process the work items ASAP.
If we use cpu_active_mask here, we can't achieve this goal but
using cpu_possible_mask can.

Fixes: 06249738a41a ("workqueue: Manually break affinity on hotplug")
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 38628e2a622c..3e92bc4f8a36 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4920,7 +4920,7 @@ static void unbind_workers(int cpu)
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);

for_each_pool_worker(worker, pool)
- WARN_ON_ONCE(set_cpus_allowed_ptr(worker->task, cpu_active_mask) < 0);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(set_cpus_allowed_ptr(worker->task, cpu_possible_mask) < 0);

mutex_unlock(&wq_pool_attach_mutex);

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