From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize()
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:17:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313522235.3664.70.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110816190858.GA4890@redhat.com>
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 21:08 +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 <oleg@redhat.com>
> ---
Right, but don't bother cleaning that code too much tho :-) I'm quite
close to reworking/refactoring most of it anyways.
Cheers,
Ben.
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- 3.1/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c~3_daemonize_eeh 2011-04-06 21:33:42.000000000 +0200
> +++ 3.1/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/eeh_event.c 2011-08-16 21:03:56.000000000 +0200
> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int eeh_event_handler(void * dumm
> struct eeh_event *event;
> struct pci_dn *pdn;
>
> - daemonize ("eehd");
> + set_task_comm(current, "eehd");
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&eeh_eventlist_lock, flags);
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-16 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-16 19:08 [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize() Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-16 19:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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
2011-08-16 21:27 ` Matt Fleming
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