From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750913AbWFPDEh (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:04:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750923AbWFPDEh (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:04:37 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:35042 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750862AbWFPDEg (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:04:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:04:32 -0500 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Rusty Russell Cc: Paul Mackerras , "Serge E. Hallyn" , lkml - Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread Message-ID: <20060616030432.GA18037@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: <17553.56625.612931.136018@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1150419895.10290.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1150419895.10290.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Quoting Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au): > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather > > than the deprecated kernel_threads. > > > > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn > > kthread does a lot of stuff we don't need, and stop_machine is fairly > special, low-level interface. > > Seems like change for change's sake, to me, *and* it added more code > than it removed. So if kernel_thread is really going to be removed, how else should this be done? Just clone? -serge