work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue. 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@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index a35afdb..1f0c509 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -971,6 +971,8 @@ } #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 @@ 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 @@ 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 }