Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Override implicit ordered attribute in workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Oct 12 2023 - 15:53:01 EST


On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:48:42PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> Commit 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1
> to be ordered") enabled implicit ordered attribute to be added to
> WQ_UNBOUND workqueues with max_active of 1. This prevented the changing
> of attributes to these workqueues leading to fix commit 0a94efb5acbb
> ("workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable").
>
> However, workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask() was not updated at that time.
> So sysfs changes to wq_unbound_cpumask has no effect on WQ_UNBOUND
> workqueues with implicit ordered attribute. Since not all WQ_UNBOUND
> workqueues are visible on sysfs, we are not able to make all the
> necessary cpumask changes even if we iterates all the workqueue cpumasks
> in sysfs and changing them one by one.
>
> Fix this problem by applying the corresponding change made
> to apply_workqueue_attrs_locked() in the fix commit to
> workqueue_apply_unbound_cpumask().
>
> Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to wq/for-6.6-fixes.

Thanks.

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tejun