From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: Export kthread_data()
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:50:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180213155033.GA16684@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518187941-29275-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com>
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 09:52:21AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> When multiple kernel threads are created to cooperatively work on
> a common task, we may need a convenient way to access data that are
> specific to each kthread.
>
> The kthread_data() function fits this need. However, it was not
> visible to kthreads started in a kernel module. To solve this problem,
> the kthread_data() function is now exported allowing kthreads from
> kernel modules to use it.
Please send this along wit hthe actual user of it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-13 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-09 14:52 [PATCH] kthread: Export kthread_data() Waiman Long
2018-02-12 9:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-13 15:50 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-02-13 21:40 ` Waiman Long
2018-02-13 21:42 ` Waiman Long
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