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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:33:26 +0200
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On 07/01, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 16:08 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Maybe it makes sense to add kthread_clone (in addition to
> > kthread_create) that would do what you suggest?
> > If yes, any hints on an implementation?
>
> I think that's called kernel_thread() see
> kernel/kthread.c:create_kthread().

Well, strictly speaking kernel_thread() doesn't create the kernel thread.
Unless the caller is the kernel thread. And daemonize() is deprecated.
kernel_thread() just forks the CLONE_VM + flags child.

Oleg.