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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stop_machine: fixup cut'n'paste error in stopped thread name
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:06:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317657968.20367.35.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317643317.21903.36.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 13:01 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Noticed this while poking around. Seems like the code was lifted a bit
> more thoroughly from the migration thread mgmt code than the author of
> the preceding comment intended...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> 
> --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
> +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
> @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static int __cpuinit cpu_stop_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
>  		p = kthread_create_on_node(cpu_stopper_thread,
>  					   stopper,
>  					   cpu_to_node(cpu),
> -					   "migration/%d", cpu);
> +					   "stopper/%d", cpu);
>  		if (IS_ERR(p))
>  			return notifier_from_errno(PTR_ERR(p));
>  		get_task_struct(p);
> 

IIRC it was because userspace already knew about the migration thread
and we didn't want to confuse things further. But yeah, its not
particularly important.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03 12:01 [PATCH] stop_machine: fixup cut'n'paste error in stopped thread name Ian Campbell
2011-10-03 16:06 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-10-05  6:03   ` Ian Campbell

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