From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-02-17-12-33 uploaded
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:22:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090428192219.GA3398@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090218145037.GA24240@redhat.com>
Rusty, Andrew,
On 02/18, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 02/18, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:23:56 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Someone else has been mucking with kthread.c in linux-next, and a
> > > couple of days ago that mucking got dropped from linux-next. Perhaps
> > > this churn broke Oleg's patch.
>
> "[merged] kthread-dont-looking-for-a-task-in-create_kthread-2.patch"
> has "create->result = current;" in kthread(), then this line was
> lost somehow,
>
> > Oleg and I had an accidentally-offlist chat about these patches.
> >
> > Last we decided, a more ambitious approach was desired. Patches RSN.
>
> Yes, but can't we do this on top of current patches?
>
> We are going to change the API a bit, so that kthread_create() bumps
> a reference to task_struct. I think it would be nice to separate the
> API changes from the implementation changes.
So, what happened with
kthreads-simplify-the-startup-synchronization.patch
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=123335224710768
kthreads-rework-kthread_stop.patch
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm-commits&m=123335227910835
patches? Can't find them in any tree.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-17 20:33 mmotm 2009-02-17-12-33 uploaded akpm
2009-02-17 23:21 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-17 23:31 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-18 8:45 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-18 9:19 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-18 9:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-18 9:53 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-18 12:15 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-18 14:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-04-28 19:22 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2009-04-28 19:48 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-28 20:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-18 0:52 ` mmotm 2009-02-17-12-33 uploaded (nr_pdflush_threads_min sysctl build error) Randy Dunlap
2009-02-18 1:40 ` Andrew Morton
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