linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] kthreads: rework kthread

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Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:34:31 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@...nvz.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] kthreads: rework kthread_stop()

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:40:06 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> static struct kthread *to_kthread(struct task_struct *tsk)
> {
> 	void *stack = task_stack_page(tsk);
> 	return (struct kthread *)(stack + kthread_offset);
>         
> }
...
> It would remove the test and be simple and obviously correct.

Clever? Sure.  Neat? Yes.

But you are using a definition of obvious with which I was not previously
familiar :)

Rusty.
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