Re: [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: kill____call_usermodehelper()->set_cpus_allowed_ptr()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Nov 29 2013 - 11:48:25 EST


Hi Tejun,

On 11/29, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> Hey, Oleg.
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 08:33:49PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > @@ -208,13 +208,9 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
> > spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
> > 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);
>
> I don't think this is correct on numa machines where unbound workers
> are NUMA-node affine by default.

Aaah, I see. And you even mentioned this before, but I didn't pay
attention.

Thank!

Oleg.

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