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wifi: cfg80211: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:20:32 +0000 (17:20 +0100)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:26:17 +0000 (10:26 +0100)
commitfec4d9d6ffd297b1ce8f19a8f723f5b0aaac5b3e
tree401eade7c3f76206fa784257e433a1b3b257f65a
parente4582bdf5132ce80e7432d8143f2c321d258e60f
wifi: cfg80211: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq

Currently if a user enqueues a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistency cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
For more details see the Link tag below.

This continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with
the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in:

commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

Switch to using system_dfl_wq because system_unbound_wq is going away as part of
a workqueue restructuring.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113162032.394804-4-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/wireless/core.c
net/wireless/sysfs.c