[PATCH 2/6] workqueue: factor out alloc_and_link_percpu_pwqs()

From: Breno Leitao

Date: Fri Jul 31 2026 - 08:00:16 EST


Move the per-cpu pwq allocation loop out of alloc_and_link_pwqs() into a
helper. The inner allocation-failure path now returns -ENOMEM and the
caller jumps to the existing enomem cleanup, equivalent to the previous
goto.

Now that the per-cpu branch returns a value through the helper, the
per-cpu, ordered and unbound cases share a single error-handling tail.
Turn the separate per-cpu block and the ordered/unbound if/else into one
if/else-if/else chain, dropping the early return and the duplicated goto.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 63a39bb3f5e47..b386a457c0381 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5666,6 +5666,28 @@ static void unbound_wq_update_pwq(struct workqueue_struct *wq, int cpu)
put_pwq_unlocked(old_pwq);
}

+static int alloc_and_link_percpu_pwqs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
+{
+ int cpu;
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ struct pool_workqueue **pwq_p = per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_pwq, cpu);
+ struct worker_pool *pool = get_percpu_pool(wq, cpu);
+
+ *pwq_p = kmem_cache_alloc_node(pwq_cache, GFP_KERNEL, pool->node);
+ if (!*pwq_p)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ init_pwq(*pwq_p, wq, pool);
+
+ mutex_lock(&wq->mutex);
+ link_pwq(*pwq_p);
+ mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int alloc_and_link_pwqs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
{
bool highpri = wq->flags & WQ_HIGHPRI;
@@ -5678,25 +5700,8 @@ static int alloc_and_link_pwqs(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
goto enomem;

if (!(wq->flags & WQ_UNBOUND)) {
- for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
- struct pool_workqueue **pwq_p = per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_pwq, cpu);
- struct worker_pool *pool = get_percpu_pool(wq, cpu);
-
- *pwq_p = kmem_cache_alloc_node(pwq_cache, GFP_KERNEL,
- pool->node);
- if (!*pwq_p)
- goto enomem;
-
- init_pwq(*pwq_p, wq, pool);
-
- mutex_lock(&wq->mutex);
- link_pwq(*pwq_p);
- mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex);
- }
- return 0;
- }
-
- if (wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED) {
+ ret = alloc_and_link_percpu_pwqs(wq);
+ } else if (wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED) {
struct pool_workqueue *dfl_pwq;

ret = apply_workqueue_attrs_locked(wq, ordered_wq_attrs[highpri]);

--
2.53.0-Meta