On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 01:31:17PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:07:03AM +0800, [email protected] wrote: > > Userspace process doesn't want the PF_NO_SETAFFINITY, but its parent may be > > a kernel worker thread which has PF_NO_SETAFFINITY set, and this worker > > thread > > can do kernel_thread() to create the child. > > Clearing this flag in usersapce child to enable its migrating capability. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> > > cc'ing Ingo and Peter. Ingo, I think this one doesn't really suit the > workqueue tree. Can you please pick this one up w/ Oleg's ack added > and stable cc'd? The original patch is > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1602429/raw
So I don't get the problem; aren't all usermode helper thingies spawned by the khelper task, which doesn't have PG_NO_SETAFFINITY set? So how come this is a problem? The Changelog is not explaining anything much -- so no I will not take this patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
