[PATCH 2/5] kmod: Remove unecessary explicit wide CPU affinity setting

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Jul 27 2015 - 12:28:33 EST


Khelper is affine to all CPUs. Now since it creates the
call_usermodehelper_exec_[a]sync() kernel threads, those inherit the
wide affinity.

As such explicitly forcing a wide affinity from those kernel threads
is like a no-op.

Just remove it. It's needless and it breaks CPU isolation users who
rely on workqueue affinity tuning.

Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kmod.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 4682e91..97be0cf 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -223,9 +223,6 @@ static int call_usermodehelper_exec_async(void *data)
flush_signal_handlers(current, 1);
spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);

- /* We can run anywhere, unlike our parent keventd(). */
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpu_all_mask);
-
/*
* Our parent is keventd, which runs with elevated scheduling priority.
* Avoid propagating that into the userspace child.
--
2.1.4

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