From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Impact: remove potential clashes with generic kevent workqueue Annoyingly, some places we want to use work_on_cpu are already in workqueues. As per Ingo's suggestion, we create a different workqueue for work_on_cpu. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6-for-ingo.orig/kernel/workqueue.c +++ linux-2.6-for-ingo/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -971,6 +971,8 @@ undo: } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP +static struct workqueue_struct *work_on_cpu_wq __read_mostly; + struct work_for_cpu { struct work_struct work; long (*fn)(void *); @@ -1001,7 +1003,7 @@ long work_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, long INIT_WORK(&wfc.work, do_work_for_cpu); wfc.fn = fn; wfc.arg = arg; - schedule_work_on(cpu, &wfc.work); + queue_work_on(cpu, work_on_cpu_wq, &wfc.work); flush_work(&wfc.work); return wfc.ret; @@ -1019,4 +1021,8 @@ void __init init_workqueues(void) hotcpu_notifier(workqueue_cpu_callback, 0); keventd_wq = create_workqueue("events"); BUG_ON(!keventd_wq); +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP + work_on_cpu_wq = create_workqueue("work_on_cpu"); + BUG_ON(!work_on_cpu_wq); +#endif } -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html