From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751860Ab1HPT0g (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:26:36 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:46659 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751581Ab1HPT0f (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:26:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:26:29 +0200 From: Tejun Heo To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrew Morton , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Linas Vepstas , Matt Fleming , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize() Message-ID: <20110816192629.GB2803@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <20110816190858.GA4890@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110816190858.GA4890@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:08:58PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > daemonize() is only needed when a user-space task does kernel_thread(). > > eeh_event_handler() thread is created by the worker kthread, and thus > it doesn't need the soon-to-be-deprecated daemonize(). > > Note: looks like eeh_event_wq can be static and it can do all work > itself without kernel_thread(). > > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Yeay! Nice series. How do you wanna route these? Through -mm? Thanks. -- tejun