Merge branch 'for-4.9' into for-4.10

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 090fb26b3a39..6508b4dab99d 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -550,12 +550,7 @@ static void start_cpu_timer(int cpu)
 {
         struct delayed_work *reap_work = &per_cpu(slab_reap_work, cpu);
 
-        /*
-         * When this gets called from do_initcalls via cpucache_init(),
-         * init_workqueues() has already run, so keventd will be setup
-         * at that time.
-         */
-        if (keventd_up() && reap_work->work.func == NULL) {
+        if (reap_work->work.func == NULL) {
                 init_reap_node(cpu);
                 INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(reap_work, cache_reap);
                 schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, reap_work,