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@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx --- 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>