From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750808AbWFPBFK (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:05:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750849AbWFPBFJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:05:09 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:20937 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750808AbWFPBFI (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:05:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread From: Rusty Russell To: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , lkml - Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <17553.56625.612931.136018@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <17553.56625.612931.136018@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:04:55 +1000 Message-Id: <1150419895.10290.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 08:20 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Update stop_machine.c to spawn stop_machine as kthreads rather > than the deprecated kernel_threads. > > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn kthread does a lot of stuff we don't need, and stop_machine is fairly special, low-level interface. Seems like change for change's sake, to me, *and* it added more code than it removed. Rusty. -- Help! Save Australia from the worst of the DMCA: http://linux.org.au/law