kthread: Don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker()
authorOleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:51:10 +0000 (18:51 +0100)
committerThomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Thu, 8 Dec 2016 13:36:20 +0000 (14:36 +0100)
kthread_create_on_cpu() sets KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU and kthread->cpu, this
only makes sense if this kthread can be parked/unparked by cpuhp code.
kthread workers never call kthread_parkme() so this has no effect.

Change __kthread_create_worker() to simply call kthread_bind(task, cpu).
The very fact that kthread_create_on_cpu() doesn't accept a generic fmt
shows that it should not be used outside of smpboot.c.

Now, the only reason we can not unexport this helper and move it into
smpboot.c is that it sets kthread->cpu and struct kthread is not exported.
And the only reason we can not kill kthread->cpu is that kthread_unpark()
is used by drivers/gpu/drm/amd/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c and thus we can
not turn _unpark into kthread_unpark(struct smp_hotplug_thread *, cpu).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: Chunming Zhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Pen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
kernel/kthread.c

index 01d27164e5b7c39760744d353b13f89f4dcf5424..956495f0efafee30c686f9d8c4870e297bbdaab0 100644 (file)
@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ __kthread_create_worker(int cpu, unsigned int flags,
 {
        struct kthread_worker *worker;
        struct task_struct *task;
+       int node = -1;
 
        worker = kzalloc(sizeof(*worker), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!worker)
@@ -648,25 +649,17 @@ __kthread_create_worker(int cpu, unsigned int flags,
 
        kthread_init_worker(worker);
 
-       if (cpu >= 0) {
-               char name[TASK_COMM_LEN];
-
-               /*
-                * kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() allows to pass a generic
-                * namefmt in compare with kthread_create_on_cpu. We need
-                * to format it here.
-                */
-               vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args);
-               task = kthread_create_on_cpu(kthread_worker_fn, worker,
-                                            cpu, name);
-       } else {
-               task = __kthread_create_on_node(kthread_worker_fn, worker,
-                                               -1, namefmt, args);
-       }
+       if (cpu >= 0)
+               node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
 
+       task = __kthread_create_on_node(kthread_worker_fn, worker,
+                                               node, namefmt, args);
        if (IS_ERR(task))
                goto fail_task;
 
+       if (cpu >= 0)
+               kthread_bind(task, cpu);
+
        worker->flags = flags;
        worker->task = task;
        wake_up_process(task);