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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chunming Zhou <David1.Zhou@amd.com>,
	Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kthread: don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker()
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:12:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161114111255.GB32499@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161110172030.GB28264@redhat.com>

On Thu 2016-11-10 18:20:31, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> kthread_create_on_cpu() sets KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU and kthread->cpu, this
> only makes sense if this kthread can be parked/unparked by cpuhp code.
> kthread workers never call kthread_parkme() so this has no effect.

Yes.

> Change __kthread_create_worker() to simply call kthread_bind(task, cpu).
> The very fact that kthread_create_on_cpu() doesn't accept a generic fmt
> shows that it should not be used outside of smpboot.c.
> 
> Now, the only reason we can not unexport this helper and move it into
> smpboot.c is that it sets kthread->cpu and struct kthread is not exported.
> And the only reason we can not kill kthread->cpu is that kthread_unpark()
> is used by drivers/gpu/drm/amd/scheduler/gpu_scheduler.c and thus we can
> not turn _unpark into kthread_unpark(struct smp_hotplug_thread *, cpu).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

The change looks fine to me. Feel free to add one or both of these:

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>

Best Regards,
Petr

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-14 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-25 11:05 [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc Roman Pen
2016-10-25 14:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 15:43   ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 16:08     ` Roman Penyaev
2016-10-25 16:17       ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 16:52     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-26 14:14       ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-26 14:57         ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-26 15:51           ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-26 18:31             ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 16:11               ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: make struct kthread kmalloc'ed Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 16:11                 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 18:48                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 16:12                 ` [PATCH 2/2] Revert "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function" Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 18:49                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 18:44                 ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: make struct kthread kmalloc'ed Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-31 20:07                 ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: kill to_live_kthread() Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-31 20:07                   ` [PATCH 1/2] kthread: don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_stop() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-09  7:58                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-31 20:08                   ` [PATCH 2/2] kthread: don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-09  8:45                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-09 17:27                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-10 17:19                         ` [PATCH 0/1] kthread: don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-10 17:20                           ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-14 11:12                             ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2016-11-14 11:09                           ` [PATCH 0/1] " Petr Mladek
2016-11-07 18:23                   ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: kill to_live_kthread() Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-26 16:13         ` [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-27  2:56         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-10-27 13:10           ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 15:46   ` Roman Penyaev

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