Use the power-efficient work queue, to avoid the pathological case where we keep pinning ourselves on the same possibly idle CPU on systems that want to be power-efficient [1]. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/731052/ Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kfence/core.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c index 73e7b621fb36..7e20cd9690a2 100644 --- a/mm/kfence/core.c +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c @@ -642,7 +642,8 @@ static void toggle_allocation_gate(struct work_struct *work) /* Disable static key and reset timer. */ static_branch_disable(&kfence_allocation_key); #endif - schedule_delayed_work(&kfence_timer, msecs_to_jiffies(kfence_sample_interval)); + queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &kfence_timer, + msecs_to_jiffies(kfence_sample_interval)); } static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(kfence_timer, toggle_allocation_gate); @@ -671,7 +672,7 @@ void __init kfence_init(void) } WRITE_ONCE(kfence_enabled, true); - schedule_delayed_work(&kfence_timer, 0); + queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &kfence_timer, 0); pr_info("initialized - using %lu bytes for %d objects at 0x%p-0x%p\n", KFENCE_POOL_SIZE, CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS, (void *)__kfence_pool, (void *)(__kfence_pool + KFENCE_POOL_SIZE)); -- 2.31.1.368.gbe11c130af-goog