Re: [PATCH] vhost: Make use of the helper macro kthread_run()

[Jason Wang]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 10:08 AM Yin Xiujiang <yinxiujiang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Repalce kthread_create/wake_up_process() with kthread_run()
> to simplify the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yin Xiujiang <yinxiujiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 59edb5a1ffe2..19e9eda9fc71 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev)
>
>         dev->kcov_handle = kcov_common_handle();
>         if (dev->use_worker) {
> -               worker = kthread_create(vhost_worker, dev,
> +               worker = kthread_run(vhost_worker, dev,
>                                         "vhost-%d", current->pid);

Mike plans to introduce user_worker_create() to allow rlimit check[1].
So this is probably not needed.

Thanks

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg4161030.html (I'm not sure
this is the recent version, please check the list)


>                 if (IS_ERR(worker)) {
>                         err = PTR_ERR(worker);
> @@ -603,7 +603,6 @@ long vhost_dev_set_owner(struct vhost_dev *dev)
>                 }
>
>                 dev->worker = worker;
> -               wake_up_process(worker); /* avoid contributing to loadavg */
>
>                 err = vhost_attach_cgroups(dev);
>                 if (err)
> --
> 2.30.0
>