[PATCH] remove name length check in a workqueue

James Bottomley
2005-08-10T14:19:23Z

Ingo,

This has been in the workqueue code in day one, for no real reason that
I can see. We just tripped over it in SCSI because the fibre channel
transport class creates one workqueue per host with the name scsi_wq_%d
which trips this after we get to 100. Unfortunately we just came across
someone with > 100 host adapters ...

I think the solution is just to get rid of the artificial limit.

James

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -308,8 +308,6 @@ struct workqueue_struct *__create_workqu
struct workqueue_struct *wq;
struct task_struct *p;

- BUG_ON(strlen(name) > 10);
-
wq = kmalloc(sizeof(*wq), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!wq)
return NULL;