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android: binder: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
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The workqueue is being used to run deferred work for the android binder.

The "binder_deferred_workqueue" queues only a single work item and hence
does not require ordering. Also, this workqueue is not being used on a
memory recliam path. Hence, the singlethreaded workqueue has been
replaced with the use of system_wq.

System workqueues have been able to handle high level of concurrency
for a long time now and hence it's not required to have a singlethreaded
workqueue just to gain concurrency. Unlike a dedicated per-cpu workqueue
created with create_singlethread_workqueue(), system_wq allows multiple
work items to overlap executions even on the same CPU; however, a
per-cpu workqueue doesn't have any CPU locality or global ordering
guarantee unless the target CPU is explicitly specified and thus the
increase of local concurrency shouldn't make any difference.

Signed-off-by: Bhaktipriya Shridhar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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bhaktipriya authored and gregkh committed Aug 15, 2016
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7 changes: 1 addition & 6 deletions drivers/android/binder.c
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Expand Up @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ static struct dentry *binder_debugfs_dir_entry_proc;
static struct binder_node *binder_context_mgr_node;
static kuid_t binder_context_mgr_uid = INVALID_UID;
static int binder_last_id;
static struct workqueue_struct *binder_deferred_workqueue;

#define BINDER_DEBUG_ENTRY(name) \
static int binder_##name##_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) \
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3227,7 +3226,7 @@ binder_defer_work(struct binder_proc *proc, enum binder_deferred_state defer)
if (hlist_unhashed(&proc->deferred_work_node)) {
hlist_add_head(&proc->deferred_work_node,
&binder_deferred_list);
queue_work(binder_deferred_workqueue, &binder_deferred_work);
schedule_work(&binder_deferred_work);
}
mutex_unlock(&binder_deferred_lock);
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3679,10 +3678,6 @@ static int __init binder_init(void)
{
int ret;

binder_deferred_workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("binder");
if (!binder_deferred_workqueue)
return -ENOMEM;

binder_debugfs_dir_entry_root = debugfs_create_dir("binder", NULL);
if (binder_debugfs_dir_entry_root)
binder_debugfs_dir_entry_proc = debugfs_create_dir("proc",
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