Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:34:52 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: remove eeh_event_handler()->daemonize() |
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Hello,
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 07:27:13PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Btw. Perhaps we should kill CLONE_KERNEL? And note that the only > user is eeh_thread_launcher(). > > The problem is, CLONE_KERNEL looks as "use me if you want to create > a kernel thread". But CLONE_SIGHAND means the kernel thread should > not play with signals, and this is not obvious.
I guess it predates kthread(). There's no reason to use kernel_thread() directly outside of a few core places, so removing it sounds like a pretty good idea.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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