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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: hch@lst.de, ebiederm@xmission.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	xemul@openvz.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, vgusev@openvz.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] kthreads: rework kthread_stop()
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:47:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090130134736.ce5910aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090130123358.GA26216@redhat.com>

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:33:58 +0100
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:

>  int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
>  {
> +	struct kthread *kthread;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	mutex_lock(&kthread_stop_lock);
> -
> -	/* It could exit after stop_info.k set, but before wake_up_process. */
> -	get_task_struct(k);
> -
>  	trace_sched_kthread_stop(k);
> +	get_task_struct(k);
>  
> -	/* Must init completion *before* thread sees kthread_stop_info.k */
> -	init_completion(&kthread_stop_info.done);
> -	smp_wmb();
> +	kthread = to_kthread(k);
> +	barrier(); /* it might have exited */

Why the change from smp_wmb() to plain old barrier()?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30 12:33 [PATCH 3/4] kthreads: rework kthread_stop() Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-30 12:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-31 12:16   ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-01 10:21     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-02 17:57       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-02 19:41         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-02-03  3:25           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-03 13:41             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-04  5:10               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-04 11:04                 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 15:59                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-05  1:03                     ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04 20:46                   ` Jon Masters
2009-01-30 21:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-02-01 10:49   ` Oleg Nesterov

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