Re: [PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueue

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yeah ... cannot remember why i have done it originally :-|

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

	Ingo

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, James Bottomley wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> This has been in the workqueue code in day one, for no real reason that
> I can see.  We just tripped over it in SCSI because the fibre channel
> transport class creates one workqueue per host with the name scsi_wq_%d
> which trips this after we get to 100.  Unfortunately we just came across
> someone with > 100 host adapters ...
> 
> I think the solution is just to get rid of the artificial limit.
> 
> James
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
> --- a/kernel/workqueue.c
> +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
> @@ -308,8 +308,6 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__create_workqu
>  	struct workqueue_struct *wq;
>  	struct task_struct *p;
>  
> -	BUG_ON(strlen(name) > 10);
> -
>  	wq = kmalloc(sizeof(*wq), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!wq)
>  		return NULL;
> 
> 
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