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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add module_kernel_thread for threads that live in modules.
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:11:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030617011137.AF4562C074@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:27:42 +0200." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306161145570.2079-100000@notebook.home.mdiehl.de>

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306161145570.2079-100000@notebook.home.mdiehl.de> you write:
> IMHO cleanup_thread would be something one MUST NOT call with any lock 
> hold, not even a semaphore if it might get acquired anywhere else in 
> keventd-context.

Err, yes.  I thought this was fairly clear.  cf. del_timer_sync and a
timer function.

Cheers,
Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-17  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-16  6:50 [PATCH] Add module_kernel_thread for threads that live in modules Rusty Russell
2003-06-16  7:58 ` Martin Diehl
2003-06-16  8:09   ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-16  8:57     ` Martin Diehl
2003-06-16  9:22       ` Rusty Russell
2003-06-16 10:27         ` Martin Diehl
2003-06-17  1:11           ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2003-06-16  8:19   ` Andrew Morton
2003-06-16 23:10 ` Neil Brown
2003-06-17  4:25   ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-05  2:30 NeilBrown
2003-06-05 14:50 ` Andrey Klochko
2003-06-07  5:33   ` Neil Brown
2003-06-09 16:20     ` Andrey Klochko

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