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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>,
	Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] futex: check PF_KTHREAD rather than !p->mm to filter out kthreads
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 22:54:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150214215423.GA18200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1423948516.2046.90.camel@stgolabs.net>

On 02/14, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 21:57 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Perhaps... but PF_KTHREAD looks self-documented too ;)
>
> Well the idea was to standardize how we check for a kthreads, as opposed
> to improving readability or such. Just a suggestion.

I understand, and of course I won't argue if you add a helper.

I meant that checking for a kthread is already standardized: flags & PF_KTREAD.
Not sure this needs a helper, but I again I won't argue.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-14 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-02 14:05 [PATCH 0/1] futex: check PF_KTHREAD rather than !p->mm to filter out kthreads Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-02 14:05 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-04 10:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-14 18:01   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-14 20:57     ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-14 21:15       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-14 21:54         ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-02-18 17:11   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/futex: Check " tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-02 15:11 ` [PATCH 0/1] futex: check " Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-02 15:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-02 15:14     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-02 16:20   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-03 20:09   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-04 11:12     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-04 20:25       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-05 16:27         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-05 18:10           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-06 10:46             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-06 17:04               ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-09 20:38                 ` Darren Hart
2015-02-10 11:14                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-16 20:13 ` [PATCH 0/1] futex: don't spin waiting for PF_EXITING -> PF_EXITPIDONE transition Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-16 20:13   ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-27  9:52     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-27 11:54       ` Peter Zijlstra

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