linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

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Message-ID: <17965.39866.351929.349735@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:55:06 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"<Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

Christoph Hellwig writes:

> The first question is obviously, is this really something we want?
> spawning kernel thread on demand without reaping them properly seems
> quite dangerous.

What specifically has to be done to reap a kernel thread?  Are you
concerned about the number of threads, or about having zombies hanging
around?

Paul.
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