linux-kernel - [PATCH] worker_thread: don't play with signals

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Date:	Thu, 1 Mar 2007 00:04:38 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] worker_thread: don't play with signals

worker_thread() doesn't need to "Block and flush all signals", this was already
done by its caller, kthread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- 6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/workqueue.c~signals	2007-02-20 02:21:11.000000000 +0300
+++ 6.20-rc6-mm3/kernel/workqueue.c	2007-02-28 23:58:11.000000000 +0300
@@ -290,18 +290,11 @@ static int worker_thread(void *__cwq)
 	struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq = __cwq;
 	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
 	struct k_sigaction sa;
-	sigset_t blocked;
 
 	if (!cwq->wq->freezeable)
 		current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
 
 	set_user_nice(current, -5);
-
-	/* Block and flush all signals */
-	sigfillset(&blocked);
-	sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blocked, NULL);
-	flush_signals(current);
-
 	/*
 	 * We inherited MPOL_INTERLEAVE from the booting kernel.
 	 * Set MPOL_DEFAULT to insure node local allocations.

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