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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] stop_machine: create kstop threads only when needed
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:37:11 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812252337.11562.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081222113629.080104676@de.ibm.com>

On Monday 22 December 2008 22:06:29 Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Introduce stop_machine_create/destroy. With this interface subsystems
> that need a non-failing stop_machine environment can create the
> stop_machine threads before actually calling stop_machine.
> When the threads aren't needed anymore they can be killed with
> stop_machine_destroy again.

Thanks, this is straightforward and effective.

I've applied both patches,
Rusty.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-25 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-22 11:36 [patch 0/2] stop_machine: create kstop threads only when needed Heiko Carstens
2008-12-22 11:36 ` [patch 1/2] stop_machine: introduce stop_machine_create/destroy Heiko Carstens
2009-01-27  8:04   ` [Bug 12492] " Andrew Morton
2009-01-27  9:52     ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-27 10:09       ` Heiko Carstens
2008-12-22 11:36 ` [patch 2/2] module: convert to stop_machine_create/destroy Heiko Carstens
2008-12-25 13:07 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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