MIPS: Move idle task creation to work queue
To avoid forking usermode thread when creating an idle task, move fork_idle to a work queue. If kernel starts with maxcpus= option which does not bring all available cpus online at boot time, idle tasks for offline cpus are not created. If later offline cpus are hotplugged through sysfs, __cpu_up is called in the context of the user task, and fork_idle copies its non-zero mm pointer. This causes BUG() in per_cpu_trap_init. This also avoids issues with resource limits of the CPU writing to sysfs, containers, maybe others. Signed-off-by: Maksim Rayskiy <mrayskiy@broadcom.com> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2070/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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