Workqueue will soon allow exposing control knobs to userland via
sysfs.  Increasing max_active for an ordered workqueue breaks
correctness.  Tag ordered workqueues with __WQ_ORDERED and always
limit max_active at 1.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/workqueue.h |  3 ++-
 kernel/workqueue.c        | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index fc7f882..e1e5748 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ enum {
        WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE        = 1 << 5, /* cpu instensive workqueue */
 
        __WQ_DRAINING           = 1 << 16, /* internal: workqueue is draining */
+       __WQ_ORDERED            = 1 << 17, /* internal: workqueue is ordered */
 
        WQ_MAX_ACTIVE           = 512,    /* I like 512, better ideas? */
        WQ_MAX_UNBOUND_PER_CPU  = 4,      /* 4 * #cpus for unbound wq */
@@ -396,7 +397,7 @@ __alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, unsigned int flags, 
int max_active,
  * Pointer to the allocated workqueue on success, %NULL on failure.
  */
 #define alloc_ordered_workqueue(fmt, flags, args...)                   \
-       alloc_workqueue(fmt, WQ_UNBOUND | (flags), 1, ##args)
+       alloc_workqueue(fmt, WQ_UNBOUND | __WQ_ORDERED | (flags), 1, ##args)
 
 #define create_workqueue(name)                                         \
        alloc_workqueue((name), WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1)
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 2016c9e..8d487f6 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3537,7 +3537,16 @@ static int alloc_and_link_pwqs(struct workqueue_struct 
*wq)
 static int wq_clamp_max_active(int max_active, unsigned int flags,
                               const char *name)
 {
-       int lim = flags & WQ_UNBOUND ? WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE : WQ_MAX_ACTIVE;
+       int lim;
+
+       if (flags & WQ_UNBOUND) {
+               if (flags & __WQ_ORDERED)
+                       lim = 1;
+               else
+                       lim = WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE;
+       } else {
+               lim = WQ_MAX_ACTIVE;
+       }
 
        if (max_active < 1 || max_active > lim)
                pr_warn("workqueue: max_active %d requested for %s is out of 
range, clamping between %d and %d\n",
-- 
1.8.1.2

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