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

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Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:46:43 -0500
From:	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] kthreads: rework kthread_stop()

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 21:34 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 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 :)

I wonder if he knows precisely when Jon Corbet is reading his email and
gets these fantastic one-liners ready ahead of time, or if they flow
naturally by happenstance. I guess it's the latter.

Jon.


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