Re: [PATCH 12/20] exit/kthread: Have kernel threads return instead of calling do_exit

Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-21T11:12:23Z

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:43:58PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In 2009 Oleg reworked[1] the kernel threads so that it is not
> necessary to call do_exit if you are not using kthread_stop(). Remove
> the explicit calls of do_exit and complete_and_exit (with a NULL
> completion) that were previously necessary.

With this we should also be able to drop the export for do_exit.