1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c b/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c
index 212d618b0095..632b13e10053 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/topology.c
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
-#include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
@@ -230,20 +229,9 @@ void arch_update_cpu_topology(void)
         }
 }
 
-static int topology_kthread(void *data)
-{
-        arch_reinit_sched_domains();
-        return 0;
-}
-
 static void topology_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-        /* We can't call arch_reinit_sched_domains() from a multi-threaded
-         * workqueue context since it may deadlock in case of cpu hotplug.
-         * So we have to create a kernel thread in order to call
-         * arch_reinit_sched_domains().
-         */
-        kthread_run(topology_kthread, NULL, "topology_update");
+        arch_reinit_sched_domains();
 }
 
 void topology_schedule_update(void)