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mm: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

This patch continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which has
begun with the changes introducing new workqueues and a new
alloc_workqueue flag:

commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

The point of the refactoring is to eventually alter the default behavior
of workqueues to become unbound by default so that their workload
placement is optimized by the scheduler.

Before that to happen, workqueue users must be converted to the better
named new workqueues with no intended behaviour changes:

system_wq -> system_percpu_wq
system_unbound_wq -> system_dfl_wq

This way the old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq) can be
removed in the future.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113114630.152942-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lai jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Marco Crivellari and committed by
Andrew Morton
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mm/backing-dev.c
··· 971 971 { 972 972 /* 973 973 * There can be many concurrent release work items overwhelming 974 - * system_wq. Put them in a separate wq and limit concurrency. 974 + * system_percpu_wq. Put them in a separate wq and limit concurrency. 975 975 * There's no point in executing many of these in parallel. 976 976 */ 977 977 cgwb_release_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgwb_release", 0, 1);