From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org,
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 06:44:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaroReSCj1qXUeQb@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260306-work-kernel-exit-v1-1-8f871f6281cb@kernel.org>
More a comment on the previous patch, but I think exporting do_exit
which can work on any task is a really bad idea. I'd much rather re-add
a kthread_exit wrapper that checks PF_KTHREAD first and only export
that, which would obsolete this patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-20 14:52 [PATCH RFC v2] pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtable Christian Brauner
2026-01-20 15:43 ` Mateusz Guzik
2026-01-21 10:59 ` Jan Kara
2026-01-22 10:18 ` Christian Brauner
2026-01-22 13:21 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-20 15:11 ` Guillaume Tucker
2026-02-24 13:22 ` Christian Brauner
2026-02-24 16:25 ` make_task_dead() & kthread_exit() Christian Brauner
2026-02-24 17:04 ` Mark Brown
2026-02-24 18:27 ` Guillaume Tucker
2026-02-24 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-02-26 4:09 ` David Gow
2026-02-26 9:47 ` Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-03-03 10:03 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-06 11:05 ` Christian Loehle
2026-03-06 14:07 ` [PATCH] kthread: remove kthread_exit() Christian Brauner
2026-03-06 14:44 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-03-06 18:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-03-09 9:36 ` Christian Brauner
2026-03-09 15:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-09 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-03-09 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-03-10 13:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-08 8:41 ` David Gow
2026-03-06 16:28 ` make_task_dead() & kthread_exit() Linus Torvalds
2026-02-26 4:08 ` David Gow
2026-02-24 16:37 ` [PATCH RFC v2] pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtable Mark Brown
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