The patch titled
watchdog: NUMA affine kthreads
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watchdog-numa-affine-kthreads.patch
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Subject: watchdog: NUMA affine kthreads
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
watchdog kthreads can use kthread_create_on_node() to NUMA affine their
stack and task_struct.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/watchdog.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/watchdog.c~watchdog-numa-affine-kthreads kernel/watchdog.c
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c~watchdog-numa-affine-kthreads
+++ a/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -439,7 +439,8 @@ static int watchdog_enable(int cpu)
/* create the watchdog thread */
if (!p) {
- p = kthread_create(watchdog, (void *)(unsigned long)cpu, "watchdog/%d", cpu);
+ p = kthread_create_on_node(watchdog, NULL, cpu_to_node(cpu),
+ "watchdog/%d", cpu);
if (IS_ERR(p)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "softlockup watchdog for %i failed\n", cpu);
if (!err) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
watchdog-numa-affine-kthreads.patch
lib-stringc-introduce-memchr_inv.patch
lib-crc-add-slice-by-8-algorithm-to-crc32c.patch
lib-crc-add-slice-by-8-algorithm-to-crc32c-fix.patch
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