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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-02-17-12-33 uploaded
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:50:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090218145037.GA24240@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902182245.27525.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

On 02/18, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:23:56 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Someone else has been mucking with kthread.c in linux-next, and a
> > couple of days ago that mucking got dropped from linux-next.  Perhaps
> > this churn broke Oleg's patch.

"[merged] kthread-dont-looking-for-a-task-in-create_kthread-2.patch"
has "create->result = current;" in kthread(), then this line was
lost somehow,

> Oleg and I had an accidentally-offlist chat about these patches.
>
> Last we decided, a more ambitious approach was desired.  Patches RSN.

Yes, but can't we do this on top of current patches?

We are going to change the API a bit, so that kthread_create() bumps
a reference to task_struct. I think it would be nice to separate the
API changes from the implementation changes.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200902172050.n1HKorvc028933@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-17 23:21 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-17 23:31   ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-18  8:45     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-18  9:19   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-18  9:35     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-18  9:53       ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-18 12:15         ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-18 14:50           ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-04-28 19:22             ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-28 19:48               ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-28 20:13                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-18  0:52 ` mmotm 2009-02-17-12-33 uploaded (nr_pdflush_threads_min sysctl build error) Randy Dunlap
2009-02-18  1:40   ` Andrew Morton

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