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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:59:25 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthreads: Fix startup synchronization boot crash
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* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/01, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, this should work. But I _think_ we can make the better fix...
> > >
> > > I'll try to make the patch soon. Afaics we don't need
> > > kthreadd_task_init_done.
> >
> > ok.
> 
> Just in case, the patch is ready. [...]

yes - that's roughly the cleanup i referred to in the commit log.

way too late for -rc8 though - the minimal fix i did _might_ be 
eligible.

agreed?

	Ingo