From: Oleg Nesterov worker_thread() doesn't need to "Block and flush all signals", this was already done by its caller, kthread(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/workqueue.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/workqueue.c~worker_thread-dont-play-with-signals kernel/workqueue.c --- a/kernel/workqueue.c~worker_thread-dont-play-with-signals +++ a/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -290,18 +290,11 @@ static int worker_thread(void *__cwq) struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq = __cwq; DEFINE_WAIT(wait); struct k_sigaction sa; - sigset_t blocked; if (!cwq->wq->freezeable) current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE; set_user_nice(current, -5); - - /* Block and flush all signals */ - sigfillset(&blocked); - sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &blocked, NULL); - flush_signals(current); - /* * We inherited MPOL_INTERLEAVE from the booting kernel. * Set MPOL_DEFAULT to insure node local allocations. _