Re: [PATCH 2/7] mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sat Sep 17 2016 - 13:24:25 EST


On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 09:56:23AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > This change depends on an earlier workqueue patch and is followed by a
> > patch to remove keventd_up(). It'd be great if it can be routed
> > through the wq/for-4.9 branch.
>
> I don't mind as long as I can call it as early as:
>
> ->x86_64_start_reservations
> |->start_kernel
> |->check_bugs
> |->identify_boot_cpu
> |->identify_cpu
> |->mcheck_cpu_init
> |->do_machine_check
> |->mce_report_event
> |->mce_schedule_work
>
> because this is the earliest callchain I can see.

Yeah, that's way after workqueue early init. Should be fine.

Thanks.

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tejun