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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0802071116360.4128-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:18:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
cc: Duncan Sands <baldrick.bulk@...e.fr>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][USBATM]: convert heavy init dances to kthread API
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> > Does the kthread API guarantee that the kthread is not running until you call
>
> It does. That's why the race, you mentioned above is impossible.
That is wrong. The API guarantees only that the kthread is initially
created in a non-running state. It cannot guarantee that no other
task will wake up the kthread before the caller does.
Alan Stern
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