From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [RFC v2 02/18] kthread: Add create_kthread_worker*() Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:20:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20150922182049.GA17659@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <1442840639-6963-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> <1442840639-6963-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1442840639-6963-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Petr Mladek Cc: Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , "Paul E. McKenney" , Josh Triplett , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Jiri Kosina , Borislav Petkov , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hello, Petr. On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 03:03:43PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > It enforces using kthread_worker_fn() for the main thread. But I doubt > that there are any plans to create any alternative. In fact, I think > that we do not want any alternative main thread because it would be > hard to support consistency with the rest of the kthread worker API. The original intention was allowing users to use a wrapper function which sets up kthread attributes and then calls kthread_worker_fn(). That can be done by a work item too but is more cumbersome. Just wanted to note that. Will keep reading on. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org