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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:22:19 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-02-17-12-33 uploaded
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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.