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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize()
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:34:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110818073452.GE13572@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110817172713.GA24544@redhat.com>

Hello,

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 07:27:13PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Btw. Perhaps we should kill CLONE_KERNEL? And note that the only
> user is eeh_thread_launcher().
> 
> The problem is, CLONE_KERNEL looks as "use me if you want to create
> a kernel thread". But CLONE_SIGHAND means the kernel thread should
> not play with signals, and this is not obvious.

I guess it predates kthread().  There's no reason to use
kernel_thread() directly outside of a few core places, so removing it
sounds like a pretty good idea.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-18  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-16 19:08 Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-16 19:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-16 19:24 ` Linas Vepstas
2011-08-16 19:29   ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-16 21:38     ` Linas Vepstas
2011-08-16 19:26 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-17 17:27   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-18  7:34     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2011-08-16 21:27 ` Matt Fleming

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