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

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Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:51:50 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linas Vepstas <linas@...tin.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"<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

Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman writes:
>
>> Well the basic problem is that for any piece of code that can be modular
>> we need a way to ensure all threads it has running are shutdown when we
>> remove the module.
>
> The EEH code can't be modular, and wouldn't make any sense to be
> modular, since it's part of the infrastructure for accessing PCI
> devices.

Agreed.  However most kthread users are modular and make sense to
be so we need to design to handle modular users.

I don't think the idiom of go fire off a thread to handle something
is specific to non-modular users.

Eric
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