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Commit 62eb2952 authored by Rasmus Villemoes's avatar Rasmus Villemoes Committed by Linus Torvalds
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linux/kthread.h: remove unused macros

Ever since these macros were introduced in commit b56c0d89
("kthread: implement kthread_worker"), there has been precisely one user
(commit 4d115420, "NVMe: Async IO queue deletion"), and that user
went away in 2016 with db3cbfff ("NVMe: IO queue deletion
re-write").

Apart from being unused, these macros are also awkward to use (which may
contribute to them not being used): Having a way to statically (or
on-stack) allocating the storage for the struct kthread_worker itself
doesn't help much, since obviously one needs to have some code for
actually _spawning_ the worker thread, which must have error checking.
And these days we have the kthread_create_worker() interface which both
allocates the struct kthread_worker and spawns the kthread.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220314145343.494694-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk


Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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