Re: [PATCH 1/2] async: Handle kthread_run() return codes.

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

>  		ec = atomic_read(&entry_count);
>  
>  		while (tc < ec && tc < MAX_THREADS) {
> -			kthread_run(async_thread, NULL, "async/%i",
> tc);
> +			if (IS_ERR(kthread_run(async_thread, NULL,
> "async/%i",
> +					       tc)))
> +				/* Try again later. */
> +				goto schedule;

I do not like this recovery to be honest. an msleep() followed by a
"continue" is probably much better.


> @@ -330,7 +333,9 @@ static int async_manager_thread(void *un
>  static int __init async_init(void)
>  {
>  	if (async_enabled)
> -		kthread_run(async_manager_thread, NULL, "async/mgr");
> +		if (IS_ERR(kthread_run(async_manager_thread, NULL,
> +				       "async/mgr")))
> +			async_enabled = 0;

hmm maybe; it might make more sense to set it to 0 here, and have the
thread itself set the variable to 1..... that way we KNOW the thread is
running for sure..

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