Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Remove rcu_read_lock/unlock() in workqueue_congested()

[Lai Jiangshan]

+CC Paul


On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 7:58 PM <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The RCU read critical area already by preempt_disable/enable()
> (equivalent to rcu_read_lock_sched/unlock_sched()) mark, so remove
> rcu_read_lock/unlock().

I think we can leave it which acks like document, especially
workqueue_congested() is not performance crucial.  Either way
is Ok for me.

If it needs to be changed, please also do the same for
rcu_read_lock() in wq_watchdog_timer_fn().

And __queue_work() and try_to_grab_pending() also use local_irq_save()
and rcu_read_lock() at the same time, but I don't know will these
local_irq_save() be changed to raw_local_irq_save() in PREEMPT_RT.


>
> Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/workqueue.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
> index 0d150da252e8..c599835ad6c3 100644
> --- a/kernel/workqueue.c
> +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
> @@ -4540,7 +4540,6 @@ bool workqueue_congested(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq)
>         struct pool_workqueue *pwq;
>         bool ret;
>
> -       rcu_read_lock();
>         preempt_disable();
>
>         if (cpu == WORK_CPU_UNBOUND)
> @@ -4553,7 +4552,6 @@ bool workqueue_congested(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq)
>
>         ret = !list_empty(&pwq->delayed_works);
>         preempt_enable();
> -       rcu_read_unlock();
>
>         return ret;
>  }
> --
> 2.25.1
>