Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-6.8.y' into v6.8+

Author: xdevs23

Makefile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 VERSION = 6
 PATCHLEVEL = 8
-SUBLEVEL = 3
+SUBLEVEL = 4
 EXTRAVERSION =
 NAME = Hurr durr I'ma ninja sloth
 

include/linux/workqueue.h

@@ -391,13 +391,6 @@ enum {
 	WQ_MAX_ACTIVE		= 512,	  /* I like 512, better ideas? */
 	WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE	= WQ_MAX_ACTIVE,
 	WQ_DFL_ACTIVE		= WQ_MAX_ACTIVE / 2,
-
-	/*
-	 * Per-node default cap on min_active. Unless explicitly set, min_active
-	 * is set to min(max_active, WQ_DFL_MIN_ACTIVE). For more details, see
-	 * workqueue_struct->min_active definition.
-	 */
-	WQ_DFL_MIN_ACTIVE	= 8,
 };
 
 /*
@@ -440,33 +433,11 @@ extern struct workqueue_struct *system_freezable_power_efficient_wq;
  * alloc_workqueue - allocate a workqueue
  * @fmt: printf format for the name of the workqueue
  * @flags: WQ_* flags
- * @max_active: max in-flight work items, 0 for default
+ * @max_active: max in-flight work items per CPU, 0 for default
  * remaining args: args for @fmt
  *
- * For a per-cpu workqueue, @max_active limits the number of in-flight work
- * items for each CPU. e.g. @max_active of 1 indicates that each CPU can be
- * executing at most one work item for the workqueue.
- *
- * For unbound workqueues, @max_active limits the number of in-flight work items
- * for the whole system. e.g. @max_active of 16 indicates that that there can be
- * at most 16 work items executing for the workqueue in the whole system.
- *
- * As sharing the same active counter for an unbound workqueue across multiple
- * NUMA nodes can be expensive, @max_active is distributed to each NUMA node
- * according to the proportion of the number of online CPUs and enforced
- * independently.
- *
- * Depending on online CPU distribution, a node may end up with per-node
- * max_active which is significantly lower than @max_active, which can lead to
- * deadlocks if the per-node concurrency limit is lower than the maximum number
- * of interdependent work items for the workqueue.
- *
- * To guarantee forward progress regardless of online CPU distribution, the
- * concurrency limit on every node is guaranteed to be equal to or greater than
- * min_active which is set to min(@max_active, %WQ_DFL_MIN_ACTIVE). This means
- * that the sum of per-node max_active's may be larger than @max_active.
- *
- * For detailed information on %WQ_* flags, please refer to
+ * Allocate a workqueue with the specified parameters.  For detailed
+ * information on WQ_* flags, please refer to
  * Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst.
  *
  * RETURNS: