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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2015-09-09 15:38:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-10 13:29:01 -0700
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kmod: use system_unbound_wq instead of khelper
We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children. Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in: ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And singlethread is a useless limitation as well. The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs. The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules. This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper requests. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/kmod.h b/include/linux/kmod.h
index 0555cc66a15b..fcfd2bf14d3f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kmod.h
+++ b/include/linux/kmod.h
@@ -85,8 +85,6 @@ enum umh_disable_depth {
UMH_DISABLED,
};
-extern void usermodehelper_init(void);
-
extern int __usermodehelper_disable(enum umh_disable_depth depth);
extern void __usermodehelper_set_disable_depth(enum umh_disable_depth depth);