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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/pdflush.c - handle kernel_thread failure
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:36:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040121103629.59b8e95a.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040121183259.GA17474@eugeneteo.net>

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 02:32:59 +0800 Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net> wrote:

| A similar patch is included in 2.6.1-kj1. I am resubmitting
| this with a couple of amendments - store the return value to
| pid_t type variable, and use C99 __func__ instead.
| 
| diff -Naur -X /home/amnesia/w/dontdiff 2.6.2-rc1-orig/mm/pdflush.c 2.6.2-rc1-fix/mm/pdflush.c
| --- 2.6.2-rc1-orig/mm/pdflush.c	2004-01-22 02:19:29.000000000 +0800
| +++ 2.6.2-rc1-fix/mm/pdflush.c	2004-01-22 02:24:26.000000000 +0800
| @@ -207,7 +207,11 @@
|  
|  static void start_one_pdflush_thread(void)
|  {
| -	kernel_thread(pdflush, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL);
| +	pid_t ret;
| +
| +	ret = kernel_thread(pdflush, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL);
| +	if (ret < 0)
| +		printk("%s: unable to start kernel thread\n", __func__);
|  }
|  
|  static int __init pdflush_init(void)

Nope.  As Andrew pointed out to me:
"Nope, if we fail to start a thread here we'll just try again later. 
There's no need to warn."

--
~Randy
kernel-janitors project:  http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-21 18:32 [PATCH] mm/pdflush.c - handle kernel_thread failure Eugene Teo
2004-01-21 18:36 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-01-21 18:47 ` Eugene Teo

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