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From: Snild Dolkow <snild@sony.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>,
	Yoshitaka Seto <yoshitaka.seto@sony.com>,
	Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] kthread, tracing: Don't expose half-written comm when creating kthreads
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:23:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d762b4e-20a7-578f-90c8-10a044921d67@sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180723095550.08203a24@gandalf.local.home>

On 07/23/2018 03:55 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Can you add a comment here stating something to the affect of:
> 		/* task is now visible to other tasks */
>
> -- Steve
Sure, but isn't that a bit misleading? It will have been visible since
some unknown point in time between waking up kthreadd and the return of
wait_for_completion(); we're not the ones making it visible.

//Snild

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-23 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-23 13:42 Snild Dolkow
2018-07-23 13:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-07-23 14:23   ` Snild Dolkow [this message]
2018-07-23 15:37     ` Steven Rostedt
2018-07-23 15:49       ` Snild Dolkow
2018-07-23 16:41         ` Steven Rostedt
2018-07-24  8:17           ` Snild Dolkow
2018-07-24 14:48             ` Steven Rostedt
2018-07-24 15:02               ` Snild Dolkow

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