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drm/probe-helper: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
authorMarco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:20:42 +0000 (17:20 +0100)
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:41:09 +0000 (09:41 +0100)
commitecae1bb8b0870cfa338c11083ef7ef02180e40be
tree5023f921171425b4f82dd77eb769f3b0ed9ecef1
parentb351df4bbd127f3fa80b06f1a0cd7ccfcded4f7a
drm/probe-helper: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

Currently if a user enqueue 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.

system_wq should be the per-cpu workqueue, yet in this name nothing makes
that clear, so replace system_wq with system_percpu_wq.

The old wq (system_wq) will be kept for a few release cycles.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030162043.292468-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_probe_helper.c