linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/7] slab, workqueue: remove keventd

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Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:30:19 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kernel-team@...com,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage

Now that workqueue can handle work item queueing from very early
during boot, there is no need to gate schedule_delayed_work_on() while
!keventd_up().  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
---
Hello,

This change depends on an earlier workqueue patch and is followed by a
patch to remove keventd_up().  It'd be great if it can be routed
through the wq/for-4.9 branch.

Thanks.

 mm/slab.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index b672710..dc69b6b 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -550,12 +550,7 @@ static void start_cpu_timer(int cpu)
 {
 	struct delayed_work *reap_work = &per_cpu(slab_reap_work, cpu);
 
-	/*
-	 * When this gets called from do_initcalls via cpucache_init(),
-	 * init_workqueues() has already run, so keventd will be setup
-	 * at that time.
-	 */
-	if (keventd_up() && reap_work->work.func == NULL) {
+	if (reap_work->work.func == NULL) {
 		init_reap_node(cpu);
 		INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(reap_work, cache_reap);
 		schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, reap_work,
-- 
2.7.4