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From: Andrey Klochko <andrey@chenas.mae.cornell.edu>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Add module_kernel_thread for threads that live in modules.
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:20:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030609151021.GA22230@chenas.mae.cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16097.31014.94516.422433@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Thanks for expalining that.

Andrey

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:33:26PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday June 5, andrey@morgon.mae.cornell.edu wrote:
> > >  
> > > -	/* Release module */
> > > -	unlock_kernel();
> > 
> > You've locked the kernel and didn't unlock it.
> >  
> 
> This was just before the thread exited.  When a thread exits it
> automatically drops the kernel lock anyway.  It seemed un-necessary to
> explicitly unlock it aswell.
> 
> NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-09 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-05  2:30 NeilBrown
2003-06-05 14:50 ` Andrey Klochko
2003-06-07  5:33   ` Neil Brown
2003-06-09 16:20     ` Andrey Klochko [this message]
2003-06-16  6:50 Rusty Russell
2003-06-16  7:58 ` Martin Diehl
2003-06-16  8:09   ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-16  8:57     ` Martin Diehl
2003-06-16  9:22       ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-16 10:27         ` Martin Diehl
2003-06-17  1:11           ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-16  8:19   ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-16 23:10 ` Neil Brown
2003-06-17  4:25   ` Rusty Russell

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