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[PATCH v2 0/5] kthread: convert remaining users to kthread_create_worker

From: Bradley Morgan <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-04 09:37:55
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kthread_worker_fn() has carried a FIXME for a decade: it assigns
worker->task = current because the old kthread_run(kthread_worker_fn)
callers never told the worker what task it was. The new
kthread_create_worker*() API sets worker->task before the worker
starts, so the self assignment is dead code.

This series converts the four remaining users of the old pattern
(ivtv, encx24j600, sc16is7xx, cpufreq_schedutil) to the new API,
then removes the self assignment from kthread_worker_fn() while
keeping a WARN_ON() as a sanity check for any out-of-tree users.

v1 -> v2:
- Keep WARN_ON() as a bare sanity check (Frederic, Peter)
- Add comment explaining why the WARN_ON() is there
- Fix subject and changelog wording

Bradley Morgan (5):
  media: ivtv: convert to kthread_run_worker
  net: encx24j600: convert to kthread_run_worker
  tty: sc16is7xx: convert to kthread_run_worker
  cpufreq: schedutil: convert to kthread_create_worker
  kthread: remove worker->task self assignment

 drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c        | 14 ++++----
 drivers/media/pci/ivtv/ivtv-driver.h        |  3 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/encx24j600.c | 20 +++++------
 drivers/tty/serial/sc16is7xx.c              | 39 ++++++++++-----------
 kernel/kthread.c                            |  8 ++---
 kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c            | 33 ++++++++---------
 6 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

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