[PATCH 23/33] kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity list

Frederic Weisbecker frederic at kernel.org
Mon Oct 13 13:31:36 PDT 2025


The unbound kthreads affinity management performed by cpuset is going to
be imported to the kthread core code for consolidation purposes.

Treat kthreadd just like any other kthread.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic at kernel.org>
---
 kernel/kthread.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index cba3d297f267..cb0be05d6091 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -820,12 +820,13 @@ int kthreadd(void *unused)
 	/* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
 	set_task_comm(tsk, comm);
 	ignore_signals(tsk);
-	set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_KTHREAD));
 	set_mems_allowed(node_states[N_MEMORY]);
 
 	current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
 	cgroup_init_kthreadd();
 
+	kthread_affine_node();
+
 	for (;;) {
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 		if (list_empty(&kthread_create_list))
-- 
2.51.0




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