linux-kernel - [PATCH 23/33] kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity list

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Message-ID: <20250829154814.47015-24-frederic@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:48:04 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@...e.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 23/33] kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity list

The unbound kthreads affinity management performed by cpuset is going to
be imported to the kthread core code for consolidation purposes.

Treat kthreadd just like any other kthread.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/kthread.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index cba3d297f267..cb0be05d6091 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -820,12 +820,13 @@ int kthreadd(void *unused)
 	/* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
 	set_task_comm(tsk, comm);
 	ignore_signals(tsk);
-	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_KTHREAD));
 	set_mems_allowed(node_states[N_MEMORY]);
 
 	current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
 	cgroup_init_kthreadd();
 
+	kthread_affine_node();
+
 	for (;;) {
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 		if (list_empty(&kthread_create_list))
-- 
2.51.0