diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 9b952c5495bb51e8e31c576b97cc690d27fc1cfc..0b0d2ba69a8e5d54524b1270514b468c358fbd16 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -6583,6 +6583,15 @@ F:	include/linux/mfd/wm8400*
 F:	include/sound/wm????.h
 F:	sound/soc/codecs/wm*
 
+WORKQUEUE
+M:	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
+L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git
+S:	Maintained
+F:	include/linux/workqueue.h
+F:	kernel/workqueue.c
+F:	Documentation/workqueue.txt
+
 X.25 NETWORK LAYER
 M:	Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
 L:	linux-x25@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 90db1bd1a97852e4c547c43d840b2ca624c9a773..e785b0f2aea57f362f9528fb979f15716f7f2aa4 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ void wq_worker_waking_up(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct worker *worker = kthread_data(task);
 
-	if (likely(!(worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING)))
+	if (!(worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING))
 		atomic_inc(get_gcwq_nr_running(cpu));
 }
 
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ struct task_struct *wq_worker_sleeping(struct task_struct *task,
 	struct global_cwq *gcwq = get_gcwq(cpu);
 	atomic_t *nr_running = get_gcwq_nr_running(cpu);
 
-	if (unlikely(worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING))
+	if (worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING)
 		return NULL;
 
 	/* this can only happen on the local cpu */
@@ -3692,7 +3692,8 @@ static int __init init_workqueues(void)
 	system_nrt_wq = alloc_workqueue("events_nrt", WQ_NON_REENTRANT, 0);
 	system_unbound_wq = alloc_workqueue("events_unbound", WQ_UNBOUND,
 					    WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE);
-	BUG_ON(!system_wq || !system_long_wq || !system_nrt_wq);
+	BUG_ON(!system_wq || !system_long_wq || !system_nrt_wq ||
+	       !system_unbound_wq);
 	return 0;
 }
 early_initcall(init_workqueues);