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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: remove kthread_exit()
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More a comment on the previous patch, but I think exporting do_exit
which can work on any task is a really bad idea.  I'd much rather re-add
a kthread_exit wrapper that checks PF_KTHREAD first and only export
that, which would obsolete this patch.