watchdog: Make the kthreads NUMA affine

Watchdog kthreads can use kthread_create_on_node() to NUMA affine their stack and task_struct. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312394344-18815-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
mariux64 · Aug 14, 2011 · 18e5a45 · 18e5a45
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diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static int watchdog_enable(int cpu)
 
 	/* create the watchdog thread */
 	if (!p) {
-		p = kthread_create(watchdog, (void *)(unsigned long)cpu, "watchdog/%d", cpu);
+		p = kthread_create_on_node(watchdog, NULL, cpu_to_node(cpu), "watchdog/%d", cpu);
 		if (IS_ERR(p)) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR "softlockup watchdog for %i failed\n", cpu);
 			if (!err) {